2025 Equality Award Winners

Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2025 Equality Award Winners!

Please join us in congratulating these writers. Browse our full 2025 Awards Results, and our 2025 Award Winners.

And the winners are:

  • Yia Vang won the Culture Award for her memoir: In Yer's Kitchen: Memoir of a Hmong Daughter.
  • Chelsey Byron won the Phoenix Award for her submission, Purgatory Part Two.

Get Notified For 2026 Awards.

Yia Vang for "In Yer's Kitchen: Memoir of a Hmong Daughter"
Genre: Memoir

Yia Vang is the author of In Yer's Kitchen: Memoir of a Hmong Daughter. This is her debut book which intertwines Eros philosophy with reflections on the journey of two women learning to see and honor each other as individuals through food and stories. Her writing explores universal themes of

Chelsey Byron for "Purgatory part two"
Genre: Paranormal & Supernatural

Hi my name is Chelsey Byron, Im 35 and live in Kent with two children and my partner. I started writing the Purgatory trilogy last year, writing has always been a passion of mine and the Purgatory trilogy has been created through my own life experiences and passion to make a change by raising