Click HERE to watch a video of the awards ceremony.

THE WINNERS

BOOK AWARDS

Fiction: Father of the Rain by Lily King

Nonfiction: Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly

Poetry: Penetralia by Richard Foerster

Children’s: The Fish House Door by Robert F. Baldwin

Young Adult: Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord

Anthology (editors): Maine in Four Seasons by Wesley McNair

DRAMA AWARD 

"Stigmata" by Carolyn Gage

EXCELLENCE IN PUBLISHING AWARD

Alice James Books for Phantom Noise by Brian Turner

SHORT WORKS COMPETITION

Fiction: Maggie Butler

Nonfiction: Charles Stanhope

Poetry: Alice Bolstridge

YOUTH COMPETITION

Fiction: Hila Shooter

Nonfiction: Fadumo Issack

Poetry: Jeremy Colson

THE INAUGURAL MWPA AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT 

Presented to ROBERT CHUTE for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts.

The award was presented to Mr. Chute by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate.

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THE STATS 

More than six dozens books were entered into the Award’s various categories. Fifty manuscripts were submitted into the Short Works Competition, and more than 100 Maine students sent work into the Youth Competition. 

 The finalists in each category hail from every corner of the state, including Brunswick, Camden, Deer Isle, Harmony, Mercer, Portland, Presque Isle, Rockland, Surry, and York.

 Student finalists represent schools in towns such as Gouldsboro, New Gloucester, Portland, Scarborough, and Yarmouth, as well as one homeschooled finalist.

The MWPA is extremely grateful to every writer, teacher, and publisher who submitted work to the 2011 Maine Literary Awards. The overabundance of exceptional work was impressive, to say the least.

SUPPORT

The 2011 Maine Literary Awards are generously supported by Maine Authors Publishing, Maine Media Women, Maine Poets Society, the Telling Room, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Southern Maine Bookstore, and the Maine-based publications Beloit Poetry Journal, Café Review, Down East, Off the Coast, and Puckerbrush Review.