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Dayton Literary Peace Prize names 2026 winners: Wachman and Sack

The Foundation awarded its fiction and nonfiction prizes for 2025 books, with Ann Patchett set to receive its lifetime achievement honor.

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What to know

  • Fiction winner: The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman; nonfiction winner: Mother Emanuel by Kevin Sack, each receiving $10,000.
  • Runners-up Charlotte McConaghy (Wild Dark Shore) and Eve L. Ewing (Original Sins) each receive $5,000.
  • Ann Patchett receives the Foundation's Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
  • The prize will be formally awarded at a ceremony in the United States in November 2026.

“bestowed upon a writer whose body of work reflects the Prize's mission of fostering peace, social justice, and global understanding”

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, Prize organizer · Lit Hub ↗ · Sep 16

Sam Wachman 2026 Dayton fiction prize winnerKevin Sack 2026 Dayton nonfiction prize winnerCharlotte McConaghy Fiction runner-upEve L. Ewing Nonfiction runner-upAnn Patchett Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award recipientDayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation Prize organizer

Dayton Literary Peace Prize names 2026 winners: Wachman and Sack
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    Publishing Perspectives details November award ceremony

    Follow-up coverage notes the prize, awarded in the United States in November, will honor the two winners and two runners-up for exemplifying the written word's power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding.

    “will honor two winners and two runners up that exemplify the power of the written word to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding…”
    — Publishing Perspectives, Trade publication · source
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    Ann Patchett confirmed for Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award

    As previously announced, Ann Patchett is named this year's recipient of the Foundation's Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, given for a body of work reflecting the prize's mission.

    “writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace…”
    — Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, Prize organizer · source
    1. 1 outlet Here are the winners of the 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

      first by Lit Hub, 6d ago

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    Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation announces 2026 winners — Sam Wachman's The Sunflower Boys wins fiction and Kevin Sack's Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church wins nonfiction; Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore and Eve L. Ewing's Original Sins are named runners-up.