2018 Finalists

Book Award for Fiction
What Longfellow Heard Jon Nappa
The Girl of the Lake Bill Roorbach

Book Award for Crime Fiction
Death Warmed Over Kate Flora
Wendigo Vaughn Hardacker
Deadly Trespass Sandra Neily 

Book Award for Speculative Fiction
American Ghost Paul Guernsey
Caveman at the End of the World Brad Rau

Book Award for Nonfiction
Blazing Ahead Jeffrey H. Ryan
The Passion of Perfection June Vail

Book Award for Memoir
Settling Twice Deborah Joy Corey
I know it in My Heart: Walking Through Grief with a Child Mary E. Plouffe, PH.D.

Book Award for Poetry
The Unfastening Wesley McNair
Lesser Eternities Jim Glenn Thatcher

Book Award for Young People’s Literature
The Rattled Bones S.M. Parker
The Glass Town Game Catherynne M. Valente

Book Award for Children’s
Do Seals Ever…? Fran Hodgkins
Princess Sophie and the Six Swans Kim Jacobs

Book Award for Anthology (Editors)
Northern Frights D. Price (Editor)
Sparks The Telling Room

John N. Cole Award for Maine-themed Nonfiction
Where Edges Don’t Hold Christina Marsden Gillis
How to Eat Green Crab Oliver Curtis

Excellence in Publishing
Green Plate Special Christine Burns Rudalevige (Islandport Press)
A Man for All Oceans Stan Grayson (Tilbury House Publishers)

Drama Award (for film, theater, and other scripts)
Kathy M. Hooke
Martha Rice

Short Works Competition, Fiction
Anne Elliot
Jefferson Navicky

Short Works Competition, Nonfiction
Sarah Kilch Gaffney
Penny Guisinger

Short Works Competition, Poetry
Jefferson Navicky
William Varner

Youth Competition, Fiction
Lexie Bugbee
Sarah Dressel

Youth Competition, Nonfiction
Marisa Mizzoni
Mahnaz Seddiqi

Youth Competition, Poetry
Makena Deveraux
Anita Woofender