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2018 PNBA Award winners

Jun

13

2019

Emily Ruskovich. photo by Sam McPhee

PNW Author Emily Ruskovich Wins Dublin Prize

Pacific Northwest Booksellers recognized Idaho author Emily Ruskovich’s talent with a 2018 PNBA Award for her debut novel, Idaho, and the world is catching on. Ruskovich won the Dublin Literary Award, the largest literary prize (€100,000) for a single novel published in English. Idaho won out over 140 other books nominated by public librarians around …

May

16

2019

Washington Black in paperback

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black is calling to us from the table over there. The paperback edition has a much more evocative cover (even though we are fans of big block text), highlighting Edugyan’s larger-than-life story of George Washington Black, an eleven-year-old field slave from Barbados, who has some adventures. Some adventures. We make it sound …

Jun

11

2018

Book of Mistakes

Corinna Luyken’s “The Book of Mistakes” Wins Golden Kite Award

Congratulations are in order for Corinna Luyken (again!). Her picture book, The Book of Mistakes, was chosen as the winner of the 2018 Crystal Kite Award for the Western Division (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, northern Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota). The awards are given by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) “to fifteen books …

May

4

2018

Author/ illustrator Corinna Luyken poses with her PNBA award

Celebrating Corinna Luyken’s PNBA Award
at Browsers Bookshop

It was a beautiful party for Corinna Luyken and her wonderful children’s picture book, The Book of Mistakes, at Browsers Bookshop in Olympia on Saturday, April 28. As Browsers’ Andrea Griffith wrote, “It was Olympia’s Arts Walk weekend AND Independent Bookstore Day!” The community came together for the presentation of the 2018 Pacific Northwest Book …

Feb

16

2018

Emily Ruskovich. photo by Sam McPhee

The Half-Wolves: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner Emily Ruskovich

I am really honored to have been selected as a winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award. In reading the moving essays by the other winners about what it is like to be a writer in the Pacific Northwest, I cannot help but return—as I always return, so many times in a day that it …

Feb

2

2018

Omar El Akkad

The Unrooted: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner
Omar El Akkad

The house where my father grew up is immortalized on an old Egyptian banknote. It’s the 25 or 50 piastre bill, I think, though I haven’t seen one since I was a child and they’ve been redesigned since then. The old bill, if memory serves me correctly, features a drawing of a narrow alleyway in …

Jan

26

2018

Jonathan White, author of Tides

Northwest Waters: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner Jonathan White

I’m so pleased that Tides will receive a 2018 Pacific Northwest Book Award. I’m honored to be among such a wonderful list of writers living on this craggy coast. When I think of the west I think of the Pacific, that “small gulf” Ferdinand Magellan named long ago for its pacificity. We now know it’s …

Jan

19

2018

2

remarks

Corinna Luyken

Coming Home: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner
Corinna Luyken

I never planned on moving so much. For almost twenty years, my husband (and eventually our daughter) and I have been moving every few years. To a new house, a new county, a new town.  All the while trying to figure out which, of all these places, to call home. We weren’t locals anywhere, not …

Jan

12

2018

1

remark

Collaborate by Dead Feminists creators

Collaborate: An Essay by 2018
PNBA Award Winners, Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring

On the afternoon of Election Day, 2016, shortly after the publication of our book, Dead Feminists, we gathered at the library of a local university with a large and supportive audience—mostly women, as usual—to share stories about our favorite dead feminists from our book. The mood was celebratory, including lots of hugs and even a …

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