2013 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
Life Among Giants Bill Roorbach
Book Award for Crime Fiction
Redemption Kate Flora
Book Award for Speculative Fiction
The Reawakening Joseph Souza
Book Award for Nonfiction
Babel No More Michael Erard
John N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction
The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods Andrew Barton
Book Award for Memoir
When We Were the Kennedys Monica Wood
Book Award for Poetry
Looking for the Gulf Motel Richard Blanco
Book Award for Young Adult
Girl Unmoored Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Book Award for Children’s
One Cool Friend Toni Buzzeo
Book Award for Anthology
Exit 13: A Maine Guidebook in Stories and Poems The Telling Room
Excellence in Publishing Award
Interventions (Down East Books) Richard Russo, Kate Russo, and Tom Butler
Drama Award
My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother Elizabeth Peavey
Short Works Competition: Fiction
Cynthia Underwood Thayer
Short Works Competition: Nonfiction
Deborah Cummins
Short Works Competition: Poetry
Karyn Lie-Nielsen
Youth Competition: Fiction
Harrison Pearl
Youth Competition: Nonfiction
Aden Issack
Youth Competition: Poetry
Emma Sapat
SPECIAL AWARDS
MWPA Distinguished Achievement Award
Presented to bookseller Barbara Kelly for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts. The award was presented by author Monica Wood.