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 …
From the Seattle Public Library’s Shelf Talk blog August 23, 2022. Title links go to SPL page; book cover links go to Bookshop.org. Your local independent bookstore is happy to help you find these books! Congratulations to 39 finalists in eight categories for the 2022 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by …
Fiction Winner: The Cold Millions by Jess Walter (HarperCollins) Fiction Finalists: The Second Star by Alma Alexander (Crossroad Press) Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories by Donna Miscolta (Jaded Ibis Press) Vera Violet by Melissa Anne Peterson (Counterpoint Press) The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite (Avon Impulse) Biography and Memoir Winner: The Magical Language of Others by E.J. …
Congratulations to the 2020 Washington State Book Awards winners! Winners selected are outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2019. This is the 54th year of the program, formerly called the Governor’s Writers Awards. An award is given based on the strength of the publication’s literary merit, lasting importance and overall quality to an author …
On Saturday, October 12, 2019, booklovers gathered at the Seattle Public Library Central Library to celebrate books at the 2019 Washington State Book Awards ceremony and reception. The event was recorded for a podcast; as of this posting, it was not yet live on the website, but we will continue to check back here. The …
The Library of Congress National Book Festival is an annual literary event that brings together best-selling authors and thousands of book fans for author talks, panel discussions, book signings and other activities. Over its long history, the National Book Festival has become one of the pre-eminent literary events in the United States. Attendees can interact …
[Thursday] morning, The Children’s Book Council, Every Child a Reader, and the Library of Congress today announced the appointment of Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award Winner for her memoir-in-verse Brown Girl Dreaming, as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Woodson spoke with The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly for pieces to coincide with the announcement. If You Come Softly was …
