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Western Connecticut State University’s MFA in Creative and Professional Writing is honored to announce the winners of our 2022 Housatonic Book Awards! (Finalists appear alphabetically).
Fiction
Winner: Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Finalists
The Turnout by Megan Abbott
This Fierce Blood by Malia Marquez
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
Alien Stories by E.C. Osondu
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
Poetry
Winner: Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley
Finalists
Post-Mortem by Heather Altfeld
Moon News by Craig Blais
Liar by Jessica Cuello
Any Dumb Animal by AE Hines
All the Rage by Rosamond S. King
Boneyarn by David Mills
Bewildered by All This Broken Sky by Anna Scotti
Nonfiction
Winner:The Ground Breaking by Scott Ellsworth
Finalists
Names for Light: A Family History by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness by Renee K. Nicholson
When She Comes Back: A Memoir by Ronit Plank
Young Adult/Middle Grade
*The judges did not select a winner for this category.
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