The Washington State Book Awards announced its finalists yesterday. The Awards are presented by the Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State). The 2025 awards are administered by Sara Peté, Director …
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 …
Award-winning indigenous writer Sasha LaPointe shared part of her history with us in Red Paint. Now, she returns with a set of essays that add to the story in a new memoir that is honest, at times disturbing, but always interesting. She wants us to know what it is like to be a queer indigenous …
The Washington State Book Awards are presented by the Washington Center for the Book and The Seattle Public Library. These awards honor outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2021.This year, the judges read and evaluated 243 books. Biography and Memoir Winner: Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson …
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 …
This was originally posted on Island Books’ tumblr It’s always a pleasure to see the list of finalists for the annual Washington State Book Awards, not least because the judges are some of our favorite people, local booksellers and librarians. We especially wanted to take note of this slate of books, though, since so many of their …
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 …
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 …
Saturday evening, booklovers gathered at the Seattle Public Library Central Branch to announce and celebrate the winners of the Washington State Book Awards. The ceremony was hosted by Nancy Guppy, host and producer of the Seattle Channel’s “Art Zone with Nancy Guppy.” The winners receive a $500 honorarium to go with the recognition. The Washington Center …
