2020 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 Crime Fiction
Gerry Boyle, Random Act

Book Award for Fiction

Jason Brown, A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed

Book Award for Nonfiction
Jane Brox, Silence

Book Award for Memoir
Maureen Stanton, Body Leaping Backward

Book Award for Poetry
Kristen Case, Principles of Economics

John N. Cole Award for Maine Nonfiction
Michael Norton, Chasing Maine's Second

Book Award for Young People's Literature
Arisa White, Biddy Mason Speaks Up

Book Award for Children's 
Charlotte Agell, Maybe Tomorrow?

Book Award for Speculative Fiction
*No award will be given this year. 

Book Award for Excellence in Publishing
Scott T. Hanson, Restoring Your Historic House (Tilbury House) 
Alan Silken & Cory Silken, Setting Sail in America (Seapoint Books) 

Book Award for Anthology
Martha White, ed., E.B. White, On Democracy

Drama Award 
Linda Britt, "I Smile, Of Course, And Go On Drinking Tea"

Short Works Competition in Fiction
Rebecca Turkewitz, "At This Late Hour"

Short Works Competition in Nonfiction
Jennifer Lunden, "Fugitive Justice"

Short Works Competition in Poetry
Jefferson Navicky, "Other Fathers" and other poems

Youth Competition in Fiction
Catherine Morrissette, "Growing Pains”

Youth Competition in Nonfiction
Gabby Bekoka, "Lemme Tell You"

Youth Competition in Poetry
Lulu Rasor, "Grendel's Mother Takes the Mic"

*The youth competition prizes are sponsored by Maine Authors Publishing and Maine Poets Society.

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SPECIAL AWARDS

2020 BOOK DONATION RECIPIENTS

The Maine Correctional Center will receive a copy of every book nominated to this year’s awards.

2020 MWPA DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Betsy Sholl for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts as a poet and teacher.