The 2011 5 Under 35 Honorees are:
- Shani Boianjiu, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
(Hogarth, an imprint of Crown Publishers, forthcoming in 2013) Selected by Nicole Krauss, National Book Award Fiction Finalist for Great House, 2010
- Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
(Riverhead Books, 2010) Selected by Robert Stone, Winner for Dog Soldiers, 1975, and Finalist for A Flag For Sunrise, 1982 and 1983,Outerbridge Reach, 1992, and Damascus Gate, 1998
- Mary Beth Keane, The Walking People
(Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) Selected by Julia Glass, Fiction Winner for Three Junes, 2002
- Melinda Moustakis, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories
(The University of Georgia Press, 2011) Selected by Jaimy Gordon, Fiction Winner for Lord of Misrule, 2010
- John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011) Selected by Oscar Hijuelos, Fiction Finalist for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, 1989
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