Shinkoiwa Paradise is a coming-of-age novel about Masashi Nagase, who begins living in a Shinkoiwa guesthouse after losing his job and savings. Matai Kenta won the third Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award with the manuscript Goodbye Money!, which was published under this new title.

After being saved from a suicide attempt by Izumi, Masashi begins a new life at Edamame House, a guesthouse in Shinkoiwa.

Suzaku Haruka's Kyoken, Chui was a finalist for the third Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The award went to Kenta Matai's Goodbye Money!, later published as Shin-Koiwa Paradise.

Soft-Boiled was a finalist for the fourth Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Hiroyuki Sasaki's Shōjo Ningyō ALICE 13 was a finalist for the third Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.