Books


TANABATA WISH


2018 YARWA Athena Award

Winner

  • Young Adult Contemporary
  • Best First Book


2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Finalist

  • Young Adult


2018 Greater Detroit RWA Bookseller's Best Awards

Finalist

  • Young Adult Romance


NCTAsia's 2017 Freeman Book Awards
Honorable Mention

  • Young Adult/High School Literature


SCBWI Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award

  • Finalist

(then titled The Spotted Crane Summer)



BREATHE


2019 Georgia RWA Maggie Award Finalist

  • Young Adult/New Adult category​, 3rd Place


2005 SCBWI Kimberly Colen Grant Competition

  • Finalist

(then titled Peach Pits, Pantaloons, and the Purple Plague)



EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN'T


National Public Radio Names Every Reason We Shouldn't a Best Book of 2020


​2021 WILLA Literary Award

​Finalist

  • Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction


2016 YARWA Rosemary Contest

(then titled Phoenix on Ice)

2nd place 

  • Contemporary Young Adult



Screenplays


Kitsune Mask


COPA Shorts Film Festival

2017 Short Screenplay Winner


When biracial, futuristic police officer Jay Yoshikawa

went to Japan to pay her respects to her deceased

grandparents, she didn’t intend to bring home the

family’s secret and unleash it on the citizens of San

Francisco. Now, this highly-trained cop must release

her control to a yokai-fighting, nine-tailed fox entity

to become Kitsune Mask and defeat the soul-sucking

ice demon Yuki-Onna (Snow Woman) before she takes

the lives of Jay’s best friend and her love interest. 



Sara Fujimura

Awards