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Western Connecticut State University’s MFA in Creative and Professional Writing is honored to announce the winners of our 2021 Housatonic Book Award! (Finalists appear alphabetically).
Nonfiction
Winner: Julie Marie Wade – Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing


Finalists
Jason Diamond – The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
Mark Nowak – Social Poetics
Sheryl St. Germain – 50 Miles
Katie Bowler Young – Enrique Alférez: Sculptor
Fiction
Winner: Danielle Evans – The Office of Historical Corrections


Finalists
Amy Jo Burns – Shiner
Jennie Fields – Atomic Love
David Joy – When These Mountains Burn
William Lychack – Cargill Falls
Lara Tupper – Off Island
Poetry
Winner: Jubi Arriola-Headley – Original Kink


Finalists
Allison Adair – The Clearing
Kirun Kapur – Women in the Waiting Room
Brooke Matson – In Accelerated Silence
Michael Torres – An Incomplete List of Names
Young Adult/Middle Grade
Winner: Beth Vrabel – The Newspaper Club


*There are no finalists for the 2021 Housatonic Book Award in YA/MG