Getting Outside Saturday: Maine Literary Awards (A Selfie Haiku)

categories: Cocktail Hour / Getting Outside

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2013 Maine Literary Awards:

Book Award for Fiction
Bill Roorbach Life Among Giants

Book Award for Crime Fiction
Kate Flora
Redemption

Book Award for Speculative Fiction
Joseph Souza
The Reawakening

Book Award for Nonfiction
Michael Erard
Babel No More

John N. Cole Award for Maine-themed Nonfiction
Andrew Barton
The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods

Book Award for Memoir
Monica Wood
When We Were The Kennedys

Book Award for Poetry
Richard Blanco
Looking for the Gulf Motel

Book Award for Young Adult
Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Girl Unmoored

Book Award for Children’s
Toni Buzzeo
One Cool Friend

Book Award for Anthology
The Telling Room
Exit 13: A Maine Guidebook in Stories and Poems

Excellence in Publishing
Richard Russo & Kate Russo & Tom Butler
Interventions (Down East Books)

Drama Award
Elizabeth Peavey
My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother

Short Works Competition: Fiction
Cynthia Underwood Thayer

Short Works Competition: Nonfiction
Deborah Cummins

Short Works Competition: Poetry
Karyn Lie-Nielsen

Youth Competition: Fiction
Harrison Pearl
[Elysia Roorbach, finalist, just saying.]

Youth Competition: Nonfiction
Aden Issack

Youth Competition: Poetry
Emma Sapat



  1. Debora writes:

    A Cocktail Hour sweep! Congrats Bill, Monica, and Elysia!