Finalist: The Dallas Morning News, by Scott Farwell
For his story about a young woman's struggle to live a normal life after years of ghastly child abuse, an examination of human resilience in the face of depravity.
Nominated Work
October 20, 2013
Please note that chapters 6-8 are not part of the official entry.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Feature Writing in 2014:
Christopher Goffard
For his account of an ex-police officer's nine-day killing spree in Southern California, notable for its pacing, character development and rich detail.
Mark Johnson
For his meticulously told tale about a group of first-year medical students in their gross anatomy class and the relationships they develop with one another and the nameless corpse on the table, an account enhanced by multimedia elements.
The Jury
The Jury
Jill Williams(Chair )
deputy managing editor, features, entertainment and new products
Buffy Andrews
assistant managing editor of features and niche publications and social media coordinator
Bill Church
executive editor
George Getschow
writer-in-residence and director, The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference
Mark Lorando
director, metro news and entertainment coverage
Carolyn Callison Murray
editor and vice president
Joyce Terhaar
executive editor
Winners in Feature Writing
John Branch
For his evocative narrative about skiers killed in an avalanche and the science that explains such disasters, a project enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements.
Eli Sanders
For his haunting story of a woman who survived a brutal attack that took the life of her partner, using the woman's brave courtroom testimony and the details of the crime to construct a moving narrative.
Amy Ellis Nutt
For her deeply probing story of the mysterious sinking of a commercial fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean that drowned six men.
Gene Weingarten
For his haunting story about parents, from varying walks of life, who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars.
2014 Prize Winners
Donna Tartt
A beautifully written coming-of-age novel with exquisitely drawn characters that follows a grieving boy's entanglement with a small famous painting that has eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the heart.
Annie Baker
A thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters that focuses on three employees of a Massachusetts art-house movie theater, rendering lives rarely seen on the stage.
Alan Taylor
A meticulous and insightful account of why runaway slaves in the colonial era were drawn to the British side as potential liberators.
Megan Marshall
A richly researched book that tells the remarkable story of a 19th century author, journalist, critic and pioneering advocate of women's rights who died in a shipwreck.