Vermont Book Awards Finalists & Winners

2022

POETRY

• Yearn, Rage Hezekiah
• What Happens Next Is Anyone’s Guess, Carol Potter
• What Is Otherwise Infinite, Bianca Stone

CREATIVE NONFICTION

• Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth, Nancy Marie Brown
• Aurelia, Aurélia, Kathryn Davis
• Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin, Peter Orner

FICTION

• Revenge of the Scapegoat, Caren Beilin
• The Storyteller’s Death, Ann Dávila Cardinal
• Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück
• Keen, Erin Stalcup

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

• We Made it All Up, Margot Harrison (Young Adult)
• Meant to Be, Jo Knowles (middle grade)
• The Night Wild, Zoë Tilley Poster (picture book)
• Firsts and Lasts: The Changing Seasons, Leda Schubert  (picture book)

2021

POETRY

• Disintegration Loops, Stephen Cramer
• GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander – 2021 WINNER
• American Wake, Kerrin McCadden

CREATIVE NONFICTION

• The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel – 2021 WINNER
• But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits, Kimberly Harrington
• Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People, Kekla Magoon
• Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home, Alexander Wolff

FICTION

• The Hare, Melanie Finn – 2021 WINNER
• North, Brad Kessler
• The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, Nathaniel Ian Miller
• An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories, Ricardo Wilson

 

2019

• Box, Sue Burton (Poetry)
• My Bishop and Other Poems, Michael Collier (Poetry)
• Age of Glass, Anna Maria Hong (Poetry)
• H&G, Anna Maria Hong (Fiction)
• A Stitch in Time, Daphne Kalmar (Children’s Lit)
• Berlin, Jason Lutes (Fiction) – 2019 WINNER
• The Season of Styx Malone, Kekla Magoon (Children’s Lit)
• The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai (Fiction)
• The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures, Leath Tonino (CNF)
• Drunk in the Woods, Tony Whedon (CNF)

 

2018

• The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (Fiction)
• Grand Canyon, Jason Chin (Children’s Lit, Picture Book)
• Selected Delanty, Greg Delanty (Poetry)
• Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray, Adam Federman (CNF)
• Event Boundaries, April Ossmann (Poetry)
• Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes, Martin Philip (CNF) – 2018 WINNER
• Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time, Tanya Lee Stone (Children’s Lit, YA Fiction)

 

2017

• Swallowed by the Cold, Jensen Beach (Fiction) – 2017 WINNER
• The Gloaming, Melanie Finn (Fiction)
• The Killer in Me, Margot Harrison (Children’s Lit, YA Fiction)
• Half Wild, Robin MacArthur (CNF)
• Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here, Angela Palm (CNF)
• Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, Elizabeth A. I. Powell (Poetry)
• Steel, Alison Prine (Poetry)
• My Private Property, Mary Ruefle (Poetry)

 

2016

• The Devil in the Valley, Castle Freeman, Jr. (Fiction)
• Dream Sender, David Huddle (Poetry)
• Roll Deep, Major Jackson (Poetry) – 2016 WINNER
• Read Between the Lines, Jo Knowles (Children’s Lit, YA Fiction)
• A Slant of Light, Jeffrey Lent (Fiction)
• The Night Sister, Jennifer McMahon (Fiction)
• Finding Abbey: A Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, Sean Prentiss (CNF)
• The Academy of Hay, Julia Shipley (Poetry)
• Another Kind of Hurricane, Tamara Ellis Smith (Children’s Lit, Middle-Grade Fiction)

 

2015

• Winter Ready, Leland Kinsey (Poetry)
• Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes, Kerrin McCadden (Poetry) – 2015 WINNER
• Museum of the Americas, Gary Lee Miller (Fiction)
• If Only You People Could Follow Directions, Jessica Hendry Nelson (CNF)
• Like Water on Stone, Dana Walrath (Fiction)
• Belzhar, Meg Wolitzer (Children’s Lit, YA Fiction)