2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Epic Fantasy
The humans on Affer had accepted their fate as slaves. All except one. After four hundred and seventy-three years, Fletcher Rush starts his journey to free his kind…and conquer the planet.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fantasy
“An imaginative and dreamy escape you can see yourself in.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Proto has been given a job—to visit sleeping people’s dreams and try to make sure they turn out properly. But there are things Proto and his friends do not understand. What’s coming for them? What’s coming for the world?
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fantasy
Oliver, Jess, and all their friends are on a mission to destroy the power-hungry, evil villains of Vork. From subterranean sewers to lush jungle, from dinosaurs to dragons, our heroes will be pushed to their limits in ways they’d never imagined.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fantasy
Three Worlds. Three Fates. One Thread of Darkness. In this collection of haunting dark fantasy tales, mortals and spirits alike wrestle with destiny, sacrifice, and the cost of power.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fantasy
After a brief but life-changing encounter with a mysterious Knight who gives her a tiny white rose that has miraculous powers, Aidan realizes this rose is her only hope of freedom.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fantasy
After Jonathan F. St. Roche takes a job as a veterinarian for a menagerie of mythical creatures, a deadly basilisk threatens the town and he must balance the dangerous creature’s needs against the risk to the community.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fantasy
From the seed of memory and magic, Penelope crafts a fiery new recipe: Red Hot Pickled Peppered Peanuts, a dish infused with the spirits of her ancestors and the taste of freedom.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fantasy, Teen
“These three sisters have more moxy than most!” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Instead of starting college, Angeline, Chloe, and Evelyn are whisked away to a world bursting with magic. The sisters must find a way to defend their minds and their world from invasion.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fantasy, Teen
Aiden’s family may have won battles in the past, but the game has changed. It will take all their strength and goodness to be victorious again.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fantasy, Teen
The founder of a school devoted to educating orphan girls to be benevolent and responsible citizens and her coven of former elite students (all endowed with special powers) must work together to defeat the goals of Gustav.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
First Place: Fiction
“Colleen puts a fresh new spin on justice and accountability.” — The DBT Literary Awards Judges
Five billionaires awaken in captivity, cut off from their empires and stripped of control. Their captors are a collective of women determined to break through their defenses using psychedelic therapy.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place: Fiction
Sixteen-year-old Ethan Rivers has seen firsthand the repercussions of his father’s actions, and he can’t control his genetics. Is there any way he won’t repeat his father’s mistakes?
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fiction
1618 London. Haunted by the demons of her past, courage becomes as crucial as faith, as Elizabeth Bowmar fights against the rising tide of corruption that threatens to engulf her.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Third Place: Fiction
A powerful message is revealed to humanity that encourages it to start making the changes needed to avoid a cataclysmic ending to our civilization.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fiction
This fictionalized semi-autobiographical story reveals a very dysfunctional family life and the personal struggles and sacrifices required to survive there and achieve what no one else in the family could do.
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2025 DBT LITERARY AWARDS
Honorable Mention: Fiction
It’s 2032. As society fractures under mounting pressure, CARLY—a revolutionary technology designed to suppress suffering and restore order—becomes humanity’s last hope. Or so they say.
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