The finalists for the 2017 Washington State Book Awards were announced on August 7. 2017 WSBA FINALISTS: BOOKS FOR ADULTS CATEGORIES Fiction The Solace of Monsters by Laurie Blauner, of Seattle (Leapfrog Press) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, of Bellevue (Vintage Books; reissued 2016; original publication date 2002) Barkskins by Annie …
Chris Dombrowski has traveled many of the most elegant, hidden, rugged waterways of Montana. He’s a husband, father, poet and fishing guide, and he’s one of the most generous men I know. If you have the grace of spending time with him, your mind and heart will be renewed, you’ll laugh a great deal, and …
The 2016 Washington State Book Awards Winners were announced Saturday, October 8, 2016 at a celebration at the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library. Fiction: The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac by Sharma Shields History/ General Nonfiction: Dead Wake by Erik Larson Poetry: Reconnaissance by Carl Phillips Biography/Memoir: Road Trip by Mark Rozema Picture Book: Boats …
The Washington Center for the Book administers the annual Washington State Book Awards (formerly the Governor’s Writers Awards), given for outstanding books published by Washington authors the previous year. Join the Seattle Public Library for the 50th year of the Washington State Book Awards on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, 7 to 9 p.m. at the …
“Set in the early 1900’s, in Montana, and written in a voice and style that is hard to put down, harder to forget. Josef mines copper and builds a rich family legacy, while raising his son and daughter who both forge legacies of their own, in literary, industrial and natural worlds. The gorgeous prose is …
