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
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