Tattered Essence

The winners of the 15th annual Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards have been announced.

Here is a listing of the winners:

Nonfiction

* Winner: Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup (Little, Brown)
* Second place honors: Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet (FSG)
* Third place honors: The Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov (Doubleday)

Fiction

* Winner: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown)
* Second place honors: The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck (Milkweed Editions)
* Third place honors: Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida (Ecco)

The main winners each receive $10,000 and a year of additional marketing and advertising.

Second place winners receive $5,000.

Third place winner receive $2,500.