Yesterday Barnes and Noble announced their finalists for the 2009 Discover Great New Writers Awards in Fiction and Nonfiction. The finalists have the chance to win the grand prize of $10,000 and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $5,000, and third-place finalists, $2,500. The winners will be announced on March 3rd at The Discover Awards, and I wish them all the best of luck! You can see the finalists in each category below:

Fiction
Barb Johnson, More of This World or Maybe Another (HarperPerennial)
Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
C. E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Nonfiction
Dave Cullen, Columbine (Twelve)
Toby Lester, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name (Free Press)
Neil White, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (William Morrow)