The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe Named a 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalist

We are pleased to share that The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods has been named a Finalist in the Short Stories category for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, presented by Foreword Reviews.

Woods’s stories examine how people navigate identity, family, and the quiet tensions of growing up, and being named a finalist places Woods’s debut story collection among the most notable independently published works of the year.

The Foreword INDIES celebrate outstanding books published by independent presses each year across a wide range of genres, to learn more about the awards and see the full list of finalists here.