2014 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

Sparta Roxana Robinson

Book Award for Crime Fiction
Sunrise Al Lamanda

Book Award for Speculative Fiction
Seventeen: Book One Mark D. Diehl

Book Award for Nonfiction
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World Lincoln Paine

Book Award for Memoir
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters Peter Korn

Book Award for Poetry
In Someone Else’s House Christian Barter

Book Award for Children’s
You’re Wearing THAT to School?! Lynn Plourde
(with illustrations by Sue Cornelison)

Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Out of Nowhere Maria Padian

Book Award for Anthology
E.B. White on Dogs Martha White

JOHN N. COLE AWARD FOR MAINE-THEMED NONFICTION
New England Gardener’s Year Reeser Manley & Marjorie Peronto

Book Award for Excellence in Publishing
Maine (Island Time) Elizabeth W. Garber & Michael Weymouth

Short Works Competition, Fiction
Deborah H. Gould

Short Works Competition, Nonfiction
Mira Ptacin

Short Works Competition, Poetry
Christopher Robley

Youth Competition, Fiction
Grace Whited

Youth Competition, Nonfiction
Toby Choyt

Youth Competition, Poetry
Tessa Holbrook

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SPECIAL AWARDS

2014 MWPA Distinguished Achievement Award

Presented to journalist and writer Bob Keyes for exceptional and steadfast contributions to the Maine literary arts. The award was presented by Aimsel Ponti.

Special “Trifecta” Citation
For placing as a finalist in Youth Fiction for 2012, 2013, 2014
Elysia Roorbach

2014 Book Donation Recipients
Cherryfield Free Public Library