2017 Finalists

Book Award for Fiction

Book Award for Crime Fiction

Solo Act Richard J. Cass
Led Astray Kate Flora

Book Award for Speculative Fiction

*While finalists were not announced in advance, a winner of the Speculative Fiction Award was announced live.

Book Award for Nonfiction

Book Award for Memoir

In the Darkroom Susan Faludi
A Good Man with a Dog Roger Guay with Kate Clark Flora

Book Award for Poetry

Television Claire Millikin
Walking Backwards Lee Sharkey

Book Award for Young People’s Literature

The Island of Beyond Elizabeth Atkinson
Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature Sashi Kaufman

Book Award for Children’s

Goodnight, Bob Ann & John Hassett (Illustrated by John Hassett)
Halfway Wild Laura Freudig (Illustrated by Kevin Barry)

Book Award for Anthology (Editors)

Kaleidoscope OLLI’s Shiny Day Poets
Heliotrope: French Heritage Women Create Rhea Cote Robbins

John N. Cole Award for Maine-themed Nonfiction

Acadia National Park: A Centennial Celebration Various Contributors (Photographs by Tom Blagden Jr.)
Maine on Glass W.H. Bunting, Kevin Johnson, and Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.

Excellence in Publishing

Stop Here: This is the Place Susan Conley & Winky Lewis (Down East Books)
The Life in Your Garden Reeser Manley & Marjorie Peronto (Tilbury House Publishers)

Drama Award (for film, theater, and other scripts)
Karmo Sanders
Ned White

Short Works Competition, Fiction
Stephanie Doyon
Claire Guyton

Short Works Competition, Nonfiction
Annaliese Jakimides
Angela Waldron

Short Works Competition, Poetry
Annaliese Jakimides

Youth Competition, Fiction

*While finalists were not announced in advance, a winner of the Youth Competition, Fiction was announced live.

Youth Competition, Nonfiction
Pacifique Bizimungu
Delaney Wimert

Youth Competition, Poetry
Mary McColley
PDG Muhamiriza
Charles Van West