Little Girl Leaving is a Finalist on the Shortlist for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. Little Girl Leaving also received a Finalist award for the Eric Hoffer Awards announced previously: The First Horizon Award for superior work by debut authors of 2019, The Montaigne Medal Award for most thought-provoking books of 2019 and the da Vinci Eye Book Award for superior cover artwork of 2019. Little Girl Leaving is now the only Finalist for all four of the Eric Hoffer Awards.

Little Girl Leaving won The Bill Fisher Silver Award for the Best First Book Fiction from the Independent Book Publishers’s Association's Ben Franklin Awards for 2019.

Little Girl Leaving is the only Finalist or Winner for all five of the above awards.