Meet our 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalists

Lanternfish Press is thrilled to announce three Lanternfish titles have been selected as finalists in this year’s Foreword INDIES Awards, hosted by Foreword Reviews.

These Bones

Literary Fiction Finalist

Kayla Chenault’s debut historical horror novella follows a family through the decades of the 20th Century in a segregated Midwestern town. The novella was given a starred review by Publishers Weekly.

The Salt Fields

Multicultural Fiction Finalist

A man traveling north during the Great Migration finds his future derailed by three strangers in Stacy D. Flood’s haunting historical debut.

The Original Glitch

Science Fiction Finalist

In this contemporary take on Frankenstein, a deceased scientist’s protégé must figure out how to protect the world from the rogue AI she left behind.

More than 2,500 entries spread across 55 genres were submitted for consideration. The Finalists were determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners are now being decided by teams of librarian and bookseller judges from across the country.

Winners in each genre—along with Editor’s Choice Prize winners and Foreword’s Independent Publisher of the Year—will be announced June 16, 2022.