Non-fiction needs some lovin' too!  That's why QPB, in addition to its New Voices award for debut fiction, has an annual New Visions award--which bestows $5000 on the previous year's best work of non-fiction.  Unlike our New Voices award, this needn't be a debut work, and can range widely from memoirs to true crime to social/cultural histories and commentary and more.  Herewith are the nominees for this year:

Hung by Scott Poulson-Bryant

The Omnivore's Dilemna by Michael Pollan

Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent

The Shame of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol

Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz 

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion