The Colorado Book Awards, one of the oldest state book award programs in the country, recognizes outstanding contributions by Colorado authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers. So congratulations to these local writers for their achievements!
Anthology/Collection:
A Dozen on Denver: Stories, Rocky Mountain News (editor), Fulcrum Publishing
Biography:
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists, by Dyana Z. Furmansky, The University of Georgia Press
Children’s Literature:
Grandmother, Have the Angels Come? by Denise Vega, illustrated by Erin Eitter Kono, Little, Brown and Company
Creative Nonfiction:
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe, Scribner
General Nonfiction:
Voices of the American West by Corinne Platt and Meredith Ogilby, Fulcrum Publishing
Genre Fiction – Historical & Romance:
A Land Beyond Ravens: Book 4 of the Macsen’s Treasure Series by Kathleen Cunningham Guler, Bardsong Press
Genre Fiction – Mystery/Thriller & Science Fiction/Fantasy:
The Radio Magician and Other Stories by James Van Pelt, Fairwood Press
History:
First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army by Peter Eichstaedt, Lawrence Hill Books
Juvenile Literature:
Artsy-Fartsy: An Aldo Zelnick Comic Novel by Karla Oceanak, illustrated by Kendra Spanjer, Bailiwick Press
Literary Fiction:
Spoon by Robert Greer, Fulcrum Publishing
Pictorial:
Phlogs: Journey to the heart of the human predicament by George Stranahan and Nicole Beinstein Strait, People’s Press
Poetry:
Theory of Mind: New & Sekected Poemsby Bin Ramke, Omnidawn Publishing
Young Adult Literature:
The Indigo Notebook by Laura Resau, Delacorte Press
For More Information go to http://www.coloradohumanities.org/content/2010-colorado-book-awards-winners-announced
