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

Maggie Butler

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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