2011 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
Father of the Rain Lily King
Book Award for Nonfiction
Settled in the Wild Susan Hand Shetterly
Book Award for Poetry
Penetralia Richard Foerster
Book Award for Young Adult Literature
Touch Blue Cynthia Lord
Book Award for Children’s Literature
The Fish House Door Robert F. Baldwin (author) and Astrid Sheckels (illustrations)
Anthology Book Award
Maine in Four Seasons Wesley McNair (editor)
Excellence in Publishing Award
Phantom Noise by Brian Turner (Alice James Books)
Drama Award
Stigmata Carolyn Gage
Short Works Competition, Fiction
Short Works Competition, Nonfiction
Charles Stanhope
Short Works Competition, Poetry
Alice Bolstridge
Youth Competition, Fiction
Hila Shooter
Youth Competition, Nonfiction
Fadumo Issack
Youth Competition, Poetry
Jeremy Colson
SPECIAL AWARDS
MWPA Distinguished Achievement Award
Presented to poet Robert Chute for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts. The award was presented by fellow poet Wesley McNair.
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