 2012 Maine Literary Awards Honor Gardiner-based Publisher Author and USM professor Reza Jalali will introduce and present Bunting with the award at the 2012 Maine Literary Awards ceremony on Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.) at the Glickman Library on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. Bunting has been with Tilbury House since 1995. While the publisher’s award-winning children's picture books focus on cultural diversity, social justice, nature, and the environment, their adult publications consist primarily of regional nonfiction, history, maritime history, and some environmental works. Tilbury House not only keeps E.B. White’s now-classic 1942 essay collection One Man's Meat in print, Bunting also shepherds along soon-to-be-classics of Maine nonfiction such as Eva Murray’s Well Out to Sea: Year-Round on Matinicus Island. The New England Independent Booksellers Association named Tilbury House “Publishers of the Year” in 2009. The Award For Distinguished Achievement is part of the annual Maine Literary Awards. Not open to nominations, the award is selected by the MWPA’s board of trustees. Last year, author Robert Chute was presented with the inaugural award, which was presented by Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair. Please contact the MWPA with questions or for more information: 207-228-8263 or info@mainewriters.org. The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 Maine Literary Awards! This year, more than one hundred books were entered into the Award’s various categories. More than fifty manuscripts were submitted into the award’s Short Works Competition in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Nearly 80 Maine students submitted work in the same categories in the award’s Youth Competition. The finalists hail from every corner of the state, including Bangor, Belfast, Bethel, Brunswick, Camden, Deer Isle, Georgetown, Norridgewock, Portland, Stockton Springs, Unity, and York. Youth finalists come from communities such as Farmington, New Gloucester, Scarborough, and West Bath. The winners of the awards will be revealed live at a ceremony on Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 p.m. at the Glickman Library on the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. The event is free to MWPA members with a suggested $10 donation for nonmembers. The finalists, listed alphabetically, in each category are: Book Award for Fiction Sarah Braunstein The Sweet Relief of Missing Children Ardeana Hamlin Abbott's Reach Jim Nichols Hull Creek Book Award for Crime Fiction Janis Bolster The Lost Daughters Gerry Boyle Port City Black and White Paul Doiron Trespasser Book Award for Nonfiction Arielle Greenberg Home/Birth: A Poemic Maureen Stanton Killer Stuff and Tons of Money Colin Woodard American Nations John N. Cole Award for Maine-themed Nonfiction Carl Little Eric Hopkins: Above and Beyond Elizabeth Peavey Glorious Slow Going Kathy Scott Brook Trout Forest Book Award for Memoir Melissa Coleman This Life is in Your Hands Susan Conley The Foremost Good Fortune Barbara Walsh August Gale Book Award for Poetry Bob Brooks Unguarded Crossing Preston H. Hood The Hallelujah of Listening Kristen Lindquist Transportation Book Award for Young Adult Gail Donovan What's Bugging Bailey Blecker? Donn Fendler Lost Trail Jennifer Jacobson Small As an Elephant Book Award for Children’s Jennifer R. Nolan The Secret of Pig Island Judith Thyng and Jean Flahive The Galloping Horses of Willowbrook Barbara Walsh Sammy in the Sky Short Works Competition, Fiction Nancy L. Brown Sara Anne Donnelly Lesley Heiser Short Works Competition, Nonfiction Deborah Cummins Sandell Morse Helen Peppe Short Works Competition, Poetry Michele Leavitt David Sloan Martin Steingesser Youth Competition, Fiction Abbie Hinchman Tess Hinchman Elysia P. Roorbach Youth Competition, Nonfiction Kayla Finley Mary Noyes Derek Tannoia Youth Competition, Poetry Mike Caryl Phoebe Clewley Monica Davis The finalists/winners of the Book Award categories Speculative Fiction, Excellence In Publishing Award, and Anthology, as well as the Short Works Competition for Drama, will be announced live. For more information or questions about the awards, please call 207- 228-8264 or email director@mainewriters.org. |
