Today, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which celebrates “writers whose enactment demonstrates the powerfulness of the written connection to foster peace,” announced the winners of the 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize (for books published successful 2025).
For fiction, the victor is The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman; the runner-up is Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore.
The nonfiction victor is Kevin Sack’s Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness successful One Charleston Church; the runner-up is Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing.
The winners volition each person a $10,000 currency award, and the runners-up volition instrumentality location $5,000.
As was previously announced, Ann Patchett has besides been named arsenic this year’s recipient of the Foundation’s Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, which is “bestowed upon a writer whose assemblage of enactment reflects the Prize’s ngo of fostering peace, societal justice, and planetary understanding.”
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