Housatonic Book Awards

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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