2016 Winners

To order copies of the winning books, the links below will allow you to order through the 2020 MLA bookseller, Longfellow Books.

Book Award for Fiction

Closer All the Time by Jim Nichols

Book Award for Crime Fiction
An Unbeaten Man by Brendan Rielly

Book Award for Speculative Fiction
The Realm of Misplaced Hearts by Rick Hobbs

Book Award for Nonfiction
Love and Other Ways of Dying by Michael Paterniti

Book Award for Memoir
How to Cook a Moose by Kate Christensen

Book Award for Poetry
Little Arias by Kristen Case

Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Either the Beginning or the End of the World by Terry Farish

Book Award for Children’s
The Lemonade Hurricane by Licia Morelli (Illustrated by Jennifer E. Morris)

Book Award for Anthology (Editors)
A Gateless Garden by Liza Bakewell

John N. Cole Award for Maine-themed Nonfiction
Ghost Buck by Dean Bennett

Excellence in Publishing
Historical Atlas of Maine by Stephen J. Hornsby & Richard W. Judd (University of Maine Press)

Drama Award (for film, theater, and other scripts)
Monica Wood

Short Works Competition, Fiction
Douglas W. Milliken

Short Works Competition, Nonfiction
Penny Guisinger

Short Works Competition, Poetry
David Sloan

Youth Competition, Fiction
Greg Nam

Youth Competition, Nonfiction
Emma Levy

Youth Competition, Poetry
Lizzy Lemieux

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SPECIAL AWARDS

2016 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Presented to MWPA cofounders Agnes Bushell and Lee Sharkey for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts.

2016 BOOK DONATION RECIPIENTS
Martha Sawyer Community Library in Lebanon