For booksellers who go above and beyond in their local community!
(and let's be honest, we all know a bookseller like that.)

Nominations are now open for the Katie Trocheck Abel Award. Created to honor the daughter of New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews, the award celebrates booksellers dedicated to the kind of community outreach and spirit that Katie herself was known for. It honors the often unheralded acts of kindness that take place all the time in our bookselling world. 

SIBA will award $500 to a SIBA bookseller who has gone above and beyond in their local community. Booksellers can nominate other booksellers or self-nominate. Nominations are also accepted from the wider book industry.

Application deadline is May 1, with the winner announced June 1.

Nomination Form

The winner will be chosen by Mary Kay Andrews and her co-hosts from Friends & Fiction: Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and Patti Callahan Henry.

Katie Trocheck Abel had a huge heart for community outreach, lending countless hours of support to organizations such as No Kid Hungry, Atlanta's Free99Fridge, and Atlanta's Helping Mamas, which has named a car seat donation program in her honor. Katie was also a fierce supporter of her mom, and of the many booksellers who supported her.