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PNBA Book Awards

Feb

1

2022

Tuesday February 8 at 6:00 pm PST: PNBA Book Awards CELEBRATION online

Join in the celebration of the award-winning books and their creators! Register for the online Zoom event now, then follow the link you’ll get in your email on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 6:00 pm PST. We look forward to celebrating with you!

Jan

15

2021

E. J. Koh

Things You Don’t Know … All of It Lies Inside of Books: An Essay by 2021 PNBA Award Winner E. J. Koh

When I was fifteen, my parents returned to South Korea and left me behind with my brother in America. My mother started writing me letters in Korean, a language I could not fully understand at the time. Over a decade after she wrote me, I translated her letters into English. In one letter, she writes: …

Feb

11

2020

1

remark

Sharma Shields photographed by Rajah Bose

Choral Music: Fear, Rediscovery, and Bookselling: An Essay by 2020 PNBA Award Winner Sharma Shields

In 2008 I quit an all-consuming sales position in Missoula and tried to move with my husband to Lake Pend Oreille in the slim Idaho panhandle, where we hoped to rededicate ourselves to our writing. Mother nature had other plans for us, blanketing the Inland Northwest with record-breaking snowfall and rendering our little cabin in …

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 …

Aug

22

2018

Ordinary Wolves

Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner

The headline to a review I wrote of this book when it came out in 2004 read, “Caribou Hair Everywhere,” and I can’t think of three words that better describe it. Raised by a father who moved from the Midwest to a sod igloo in remote, northwest Alaska, young Cutuk grows toward an inevitable choice …

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 …

Jan

31

2017

Sherman Alexie at QABC 2/2/17

First 2017 PNBA Award Presentation Celebration: Sherman Alexie 2/2/17 at Queen Anne Book Company

Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle will host the first of the 2017 PNBA Award Winner celebrations. On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:00 (after-hours at the bookstore), fans can fête Sherman Alexie and his award-winning picture book, Thunder Boy Jr. The store requests that readers email [email protected] to get on the guest list. Please let …

Oct

4

2016

Lidia Yuknavitch by Andrew Kovalev

Inspiration from Lidia Yuknavitch, Booklover and Author

From Broadway Books’ store newsletter: Fall has truly arrived, and it is as lovely as ever. We  traveled to Tacoma last weekend to attend the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association meeting, and along the way we marveled at the changing colors of the leaves– so gorgeous! The highlight of this meeting each year is meeting so …

May

13

2016

Martha and Abe

Queen Anne Book Company
Fêtes Martha Brockenbrough

Last night, friends and family and fans of Martha Brockenbrough gathered at Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle for the presentation of her 2016 PNBA Book Award for The Game of Love and Death. How cool is that plaque going to look on her office wall? Congratulations, Martha!      

Sep

29

2015

2

remarks

PNBA Book Award Buzz

As I write this, we are two days away from the deadline for nominations for the PNBA Book Awards and five days out from our Committee meeting at the Fall Show to start the process of winnowing down the list. Well, winnowing it down further. We’ve already eliminated nearly seventy titles, which leaves us with …

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