Previous John Esten Cooke Fiction Award Winners

 

    
2024 Award Winner
The Last Hardy Few

by Stephen Delos Wilson
Published by The Scuppernong Press, Wake Forest, NC


    

 

    
2023 Award Winner
Double-Edged Sword: A Novel of Reconstruction

by J. D. R. Hawkins


    

 

    
2022 Award Winner
The Retribution Conspiracy: The Rise of the Confederate Secret Service

by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.

    

 

    
2021 Award Winner
Runaway Haley: An Imagined Family Saga

by Dr. William A Thomas


    

 

    
2020 Award Winner
Lacewood: A Novel of Time and Place

by Jessica James
Gettysburg, PA.


    

 

    
2019 Award Winner
The Lion of the South

by Jessica James
Gettysburg, PA.


    

 

    
2018 Award Winner
Upon These Steps

by David C. Reavis


    

 

    
2017 Award Winner
A Rebel Among Us

by J. D. R. Hawkins


    

 

    
2015 Award Winner
The Two Faces of Nina Grey

by Nancy B. Brewer


    

 

    
2014 Award Winner
Bright as Gold

by Denise Weimer


    

 

    
2013 Award Winner
A Beautiful Glittering Lie

by Julie Hawkins


    

 

    
2012 Award Winner
Beyond the Wood

by Michael J. Roueche


    

 

    
2011 Award Winner
Noble Cause: A Novel of Love and War

by Jessica James


    

 

    
2009 Award Winner
Call to Glory: The Life and Times of a Texas Ranger

by Michael J. Gilhuly, MD


    

 

    
2008 Award Winner
Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories & Novella

by Pat Carr
    

 

    
2007 Award Winner
Devotion: A Novel based on the Life of Winnie Davis

by Julia Oliver