2021 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finalists

 

2021 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finalists

 

Avram  Lavinsky   -  “Ghost Roads"

Elizabeth Livitskiy   – “Russian Doctors”

Michael  Quinn   (Read by Jen Ng) -   “Boo”

Mikela Bjork   - “How We Met”

Elana Dorfman   -    “Brooklyn Memories” 

Jason  Weiss – “Propelled by a Stranger to Unexpected Delights”

Ann Bar-Dov -  “Library Memories”

Alexis Nichole Haynie   – “Dumboh”

Samiha Hoque – “A Brooklyn Not Like Yours”

Robert  Iulo - “Olga, Mamma, and Mugsey” 

Natasha Soto  – “Brooklyn Baby”

Richard Pepitone – “Coney Island Day: The Nickel Empire”

Tina Elmore – “My Brooklyn”

The Winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize is Ann Bar-Dov

 The winner of the 2021 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize is Ann Bar-Dov for her essay titled "Library Memories." 

 Ann Bar-Dov read from her essay on July 24th, 2022 along with eleven other participants in the 2021 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize competition. 

 She was selected as the 2021 winner of the Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize for her compelling story which depicted her very early memories of trying to gain membership in a Brooklyn Public Library branch at the age of four and her love for reading fostered in the libraries of Brooklyn.