2015 Finalists
To order copies of the finalists’ books, please click on the links below which will allow you to order through this year’s MLA bookseller, Longfellow Books.
Book Award for Fiction
River Talk CB Anderson
A Year After Henry Cathie Pelletier
The Remedy For Love Bill Roorbach
Book Award for Crime Fiction
The Bone Orchard Paul Doiron
Sniper Vaughn C. Hardacker
Bitter Crossing D. A. Keeley
Book Award for Nonfiction
Caffeinated Murray Carpenter
Superstorm Kathryn Miles
Book Award for Memoir
Pigs Can’t Swim Helen Peppe
Life in Prison Robert Reilly
Book Award for Poetry
Motels Where We Lived Claire Millikin
Same Old Story Dawn Potter
Detroit as Barn Crystal Williams
Book Award for Young Adult
The Other Way Around Sashi Kaufman
The Fog of Forgetting G. A. Morgan
Book Award for Children’s
The Secret Galaxy Fran Hodgkins (photographs by Mike Taylor)
Albie’s First Word Jacqueline Tourville (illustrated by Wynne Evans)
Book Award for Anthology (editors)
Out & Allied Vol. 2 Add Verb Productions
Island Voices II Poets of Monhegan
John N. Cole Award for Maine-themed Nonfiction
Eating in Maine: At Home, On the Town, and On the Road Jillian and Malcolm Bedell
Voting Down the Rose Anne B Gass
Excellence in Publishing
Money Money Money/Water Water Water Jane Mead (Alice James Books)
The Soda Bottle School Suzanne Slade (Tilbury House)
Drama Award (for film, theater, and other scripts)
Delvyn C. Case, Jr.
Martha Rice
Short Works Competition, Fiction
Daniel C. Bryant
Douglas W. Milliken
Jim Nichols
Short Works Competition, Nonfiction
Annaliese Jakimides
Adam Nathan
Short Works Competition, Poetry
Annaliese Jakimides
Jean Scudder
Youth Competition, Fiction
Lila Bossi
Noah Williams
Youth Competition, Nonfiction
Alyson Peabody
Omar Raouf
Youth Competition, Poetry
Sarah Norden
Dylan Wu