On Saturday, June 2nd, I co-hosted the annual Colorado Humanities Colorado Book Awards, in Denver, Colorado.
Here are the winners. Congratulations to them all!
Anthology
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind (Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University)
Children’s Literature
Can an Aardvark Bark? by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Beach Lane Books, Simon & Schuster)
Creative Nonfiction
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom by Helen Thorpe (Scribner)
General Fiction
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel by Matthew Sullivan (Scribner)
General Nonfiction
Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame by Michael Kodas (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
History
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture by Chip Colwell (The University of Chicago Press)
Juvenile Literature
The Last Panther by Todd Mitchell (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
Literary Fiction
The Blue Hour by Laura Pritchett (Counterpoint Press)
Mystery
Dead Stop by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer, Amazon Publishing)
Pictorial
Once Upon a Time . . . The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais and Thomas Brent Smith (5 Continents Editions)
Poetry
Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy (Wesleyan University Press)
Science Fiction/Fantasy
A Borrowed Hell by L. D. Colter (Shirtsleeve Press)
Thriller
Trafficked: A Mex Anderson Novel by Peg Brantley (Bark Publishing)
Young Adult Fiction
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster)
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