Anna B. Moore Wins 2024 Sarton Award for Don’t Pity the Desperate!

🎉 Huge congratulations to Anna B. Moore! 🎉

Her gripping novel Don’t Pity the Desperate just WON the 2024 Sarton Award for Young Adult Fiction! 🏆 This award, which honors the legacy of May Sarton—a fierce advocate for women’s stories—celebrates independent books that illuminate the lives of women and girls with power and nuance.

Don’t Pity the Desperate follows Myra, a whip-smart teen navigating forced rehab, addiction, betrayal, and the brutal search for love and belonging. Dark, raw, and shot through with Gen-X pop culture vibes, it’s a coming-of-age novel that refuses easy answers—and we can’t recommend it enough.

Anna B. Moore is a literary force, with work appearing in American Scholar, Shenandoah, The Offing, and so many more. This win is so well deserved, and we can’t wait to see what she writes next.

💥 Learn more about the Sarton Awards here: https://www.storycircle.org/contest/story-circle-womens-book-awards/

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