2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Nonfiction, Self-Help
Discover the hidden choreography beneath high-performing teams. It’s not just about plans or pep talks. It’s about the signals you send, the tone you set, and the stories you help your people live inside.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Nonfiction, Self-Help
This guide offers practical techniques for forgiveness, resilience, and growth. Through reflection and mindfulness, learn to embrace change and live with peace, purpose, and acceptance.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Poetry
“Elegant and timeless, a truly transportive collection.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
This curated collection contains more than one hundred short poems in the style of traditional Japanese poetry. The poems are divided into four sections: Nature, The Art of Writing, Essence, and Love.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Poetry
Blending punchy verses with meditative reflections, each poem offers a pause, a reckoning, or a doorway to deeper truth. You are not lost. You are becoming.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Poetry
With language both intimate and powerful, poet Stephen C. Pollock explores the fragility of life, the cyclical truths of nature, and the mysteries of renewal that arise from even the darkest places.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Poetry
Celebrate each day of the year with a sonetto (Little Song) that relates in some significant way to the day’s observance of a holiday. All the poems in this volume adhere to either a Shakespearean or Petrarchan rhyme scheme.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Poetry
Seeking the Lost: Sheep is a rhyming poem that conveys deep biblical truths that children can understand while lyrically exploring the first of three parables.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Poetry
From the fragile beginnings of identity and family, through the ache of love lost and the sting of betrayal, to the quiet potency of healing and reinvention, these poems trace the arc of becoming.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Poetry
In 42 poems that capture the magic of the night, we get to share a palette of emotions by one who sees and loves life in all its moods and shades, the dark and the light, and every facet of the spirit.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Poetry
A poetic homage to the author’s faith and beloved president.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Romance
“Action, suspense, and a complicated backstory…this novel has it all!” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Before she can embrace her own rendition of a blissful ending, the First Lady knows she must confront her past and seek redemption. As love beckons to her soul, there exists an even more tantalizing allure—revenge.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Romance
Sparks fly as Jacob and Caroline enjoy a verbal sparring match, but neither one takes the other seriously at first. Still, Caroline is used to getting what she wants, and it soon becomes plain that may well be Jacob.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Romance
Fleeing from her assassin, Angela Cartwright falls into the strong arms of Cody Chilton who has returned to Lake Mont to solve the mystery of his missing brother.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Romance, Historical
“A sweeping family saga that unfolds over generations.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
In the Ukraine at the start of the last century, teenagers Rita and Daniel are in love. Daniel has no money, so her father marries her off to a wealthy merchant Mikal.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Romance, Historical
After years of avoiding relationships to protect her identity, Kasia’s feelings for Sophia lead her to take bigger risks than ever. Risks that endanger her gang, her secret, and her life.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Romance, Historical
1956 England. Transforming into a wife Dane Wellington never wanted and didn’t know he needed, Katie Clarke refuses to settle for consummation. She wants the fairytale—him begging on bended knee.
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