Blooker Prize Short-list Announced

Posted on March 11, 2006

The short-list for the Blooker prize has been announced. The Blooker Prize is billed as a literary contest for blooks, which are books based on blogs. Here is the list of the finalists.

Nonfiction:

All The President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth by Bryan Keefer, Ben Fritz, and Brendan Nyhan

Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Anonymous

Biodiesel Power by Lyle Estill

Egg Bacon Chips and Beans: 50 Great Cafes and the Stuff That Makes Them Great by Russell Davies

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

Stone Cold Guilty - The People v. Scott Lee Peterson by Loretta Dillon

Fiction:

Action Poetry: Literary Tribes for the Internet Age edited by Levi Asher, Jamelah Earle, and Caryn Thurman

Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent edited by Rod Amis

Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest

Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal by Keith Thomson

hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble by Tom Evslin

Comics:

Ambidextrous: Collection 1 by Kevin Cornell

Comic Strip Volume 1: Scarybear and Friends by Jason Pultz

Dinosaur Comics: Huge Eyes, Beaks, Intelligence, and Ambition by Ryan North

The Dada Alphabet: An Absurdist's Illustrated Primer by Stephanie Freese, David Milloway, and Matthew Wood

Totally Boned: A Joe and Monkey Collection by Zach Miller

The winners of the Blooker Prize will be announced April 3, 2006.