2015 Housatonic Book Award Winners

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October 15, 2015 by ronsamul

The MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University and its alumni organization, the MFA Alumni Writers Collaborative, are delighted to announce winners and finalists of the 2015 Housatonic Book Awards.

Congratulations to the winners, who will receive $1500 and will appear at residencies of the WCSU MFA in Creative and Professional Writing in 2016 for public reading and Master Classes.

This year’s fiction award was limited to nominations of genre fiction; in 2016, the fiction award will be open only to nominations of literary fiction. Guidelines for the 2016 awards will appear on this site in early 2016.

Fiction (Genre Fiction)

Winner: Red 1-2-3, by John Katzenbach, Grove Atlantic

Finalists:

The Rest Is Silence, by James Benn, Soho Press

The Forgers, by Bradford Morrow, Grove Atlantic

The Nature of Truth, by Sergio Troncoso, Arte Publico Press

Island Fog, by John Vanderslice, Lavender Ink

 

Poetry

Winner: If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? by Matthea Harvey, Graywolf Press

Finalists:

Tree Line, by Judy Halebsky, New Issues Press

Bone Map, by Sara Eliza Johnson, Milkweed Editions

To the Bramble and the Briar, by Steve Scafidi, University of Arkansas Press

Complicity, by Adam Sol, McClelland & Stewart

 

Nonfiction

Winner:

The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison, Graywolf Press

Finalists:

Thrown, by Kerry Howley, Sarabande Books

Phoning Home, by Jacob Appel, University of South Carolina Press

Factory Man, by Beth Macy, Hachette Book Group

Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, by Laura Silver, Brandeis Press

 

YA

Winner:

Beauty of the Broken, by Tawni Waters, Simon Pulse

Finalists:

The Carnival at Bray, by Jessie Ann Foley, Elephant Rock Books

Mending Horses, by M.P. Barker, Holiday House Books

Rory’s Promise, by Michaela MacColl and Rosemary Nichols, Boyds Mill Press

Steering Toward Normal, by Rebecca Petruck, Abrams Amulet Books

To print this announcement, click on the 2015 Winners and Finalists for a PDF version.