The Washington Center for the Book announced the winners of the 58th annual 2024 Washington State Book Awards. Congratulations! Books for adults Creative Nonfiction/Memoir: “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” by Jane Wong, Seattle (Tin House Books) Fiction: “The Laughter” by Sonora Jha, Seattle (HarperVia) General Nonfiction/Biography: “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to …
Join the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Celebration! Register for the online Zoom event now, then follow the link you’ll get in your email to Zoom on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 6:00 pm PST. We look forward to celebrating with you!
When I was on tour for my memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, I ended the tour in Atlantic City – a city that I hadn’t returned to since I was a child, accompanying my father while he gambled each day at Caesar’s Palace. In the title chapter, I write about him disappearing into …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2024 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. Le Guin, …
Phinney Books welcomes you to the 14th annual Holiday Bookfest featuring dozens of authors signing their books. Along with the author signings, a selection of authors will be reading from their books, and Greenwood’s Bureau of Fearless Ideas tutoring center will create an interactive Bookmakers Space, where new or seasoned writers can put together a …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free speech, and author promotional vehicles through its member stores. Since 1965, the PNBA Awards …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free speech, and author promotional vehicles through its member stores. PNBA’s Awards Committee is comprised …
Last night at Hugo House in Seattle, outgoing Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen “passed the laurel” to 2016-18 Washington State Poet Laureate Tod Marshall (Bugle). The celebration included readings by Marshall and Austen, as well as Pacific Northwest poets Rick Barot, Karen Finneyfrock, Jourdan Keith, Jane Wong, and more. Former Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken emceed. …
