Utah Center for the Book
Utah Book Award
The Utah Book Award was established to honor exceptional achievements by Utah writers and to recognize outstanding literature written with a Utah theme or setting. In 1999, the first and only award was presented to author Robert Van Wagoner for his novel Dancing Naked. Since then, the categories have been expanded to include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literature for children and young adults.
The Utah Center for the Book announces the call for entries for the 2010 Utah Book Award. The Utah Book Award for 2010 will honor books judged to best represent the literary culture of the state in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young adult and children's literature. The competition is open to Utah authors and authors of books with a Utah theme or setting. A "Utah author" need not currently reside in Utah if he/she is a Utah native or is an author who forged significant and sustained literary ties to Utah while residing here in the past. The deadline for entries is April 1, 2011. Award winners will be announced in October 2011 at the Utah Humanities Book Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah.
To be eligible, books must be published and bound professionally, assigned an ISBN, and published in 2010 as indicated by the copyright date. Loose-leaf materials, downloadable books, and books recorded on tape or compact disc will not be accepted. Winners in each category receive $100; finalists receive $50. Entry forms are available at the link below.
For more information, contact The City Library at 524-8200.
Entry Form
Utah Book Award Entry Form 2010
Winners
2008
- Fiction
- The End of the Straight and Narrow
- by David McGlynn
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- by David McGlynn
- Nonfiction
- Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America
- by Stephen Trimble
- 333.7313 T831 ba
- by Stephen Trimble
- Poetry
- Made Flesh
- by Craig Arnold
- 811 A7519 ma
- by Craig Arnold
- Young Adults
- The Way He Lived
- by Emily Wing Smith
- YA S646759 way
- by Emily Wing Smith
- Children
- Rapunzel's Revenge
- by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale
- GRAPHIC NOVEL j Rapunzel
- by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale
2007
- Fiction
- The Arc and the Sediment
- by Christine Allen-Yazzie
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- by Christine Allen-Yazzie
- Nonfiction
- Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons
- by Frederick H. Swanson
- B R971165 sw
- by Frederick H. Swanson
- Poetry
- Whale Song: A Poet's Journey into Cancer
- by Kenneth W. Brewer
- 811 B847 whp
- by Kenneth W. Brewer
- Children/Young Adults
- Book of a Thousand Days
- by Shannon Hale
- YA H1647 bo
- by Shannon Hale
2006
- Fiction
- Calling Out
- by Rae Meadows
- fic M48237 ca
- by Rae Meadows
- Nonfiction
- France Davis: An American Story Told
- by France A. Davis and Nayra Atiya
- B D261873
- by France A. Davis and Nayra Atiya
- Poetry
- Weather Report
- by Rob Carney
- 811 C289 we
- by Rob Carney
- Children/Young Adults
- Around the House the Fox Chased the Mouse
- by Rick Walton
- jp Walton
- by Rick Walton
2005
- Fiction
- Rain in the Valley
- by Helen Papanikolas
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- by Helen Papanikolas
- Nonfiction
- Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
- by Ellen Meloy
- 599.649 M528 ea
- by Ellen Meloy
- Poetry
- In All Their Animal Brilliance
- by Lance Larsen
- 811 L334
- by Lance Larsen
- Children/Young Adults
- Princess Academy
- by Shannon Hale
- j Hale
- by Shannon Hale
2004
- Fiction
- The Husband's Dilemma
- by Nicole Stansbury
- fic S79113 hu
- by Nicole Stansbury
- Nonfiction
- The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt
- by Carol Holindrake Nielson
- 298 N669 sa
- by Carol Holindrake Nielson
- Poetry
- Bend
- by Natasha Sajé
- 811 S158 be
- by Natasha Sajé
- Children/Young Adults
- Wishing Moon
- by Michael O. Tunnell
- j Tunnell
- by Michael O. Tunnell
2003
- Fiction
- Massachusetts, California, Timbuktu
- by Stephanie Rosenfeld
- fic R813623 ma
- by Stephanie Rosenfeld
- Nonfiction
- An Accidental Soldier: Memoir of a Mestizo in Vietnam
- by Manny Garcia
- 959.704 G216 ac
- by Manny Garcia
- Poetry
- Boasts, Toasts, and Ghosts
- by Rob Carney
- 811 C289 bo
- by Rob Carney
- Children/Young Adults
- The Goose Girl
- by Shannon Hale
- YA H1647 go
- by Shannon Hale
2002
- Fiction
- Red Water
- by Judith Freeman
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- by Judith Freeman
- Nonfiction
- The Anthropology of Turquoise
- by Ellen Meloy
- 917.90433 M528 an
- by Ellen Meloy
- Poetry
- Arcady
- by Donald Revell
- 811 R451 ar
- by Donald Revell
- Children/Young Adults
- Charlotte's Rose
- by A. E. Cannon
- j Cannon
- by A. E. Cannon
2001
- Fiction
- Downwinders: An Atomic Tale
- by Curtis and Dianne Oberhansley
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- by Curtis and Dianne Oberhansley
- Nonfiction
- Heart of the Desert Wild
- by Greer Chesher
- 917.925 C524 he
- by Greer Chesher
- Poetry
- The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension
- by Katharine Coles
- 811 C696 go
- by Katharine Coles
2000
- Fiction
- The Time of the Little Black Bird
- by Helen Papanikolas
- fic P2133 ti
- by Helen Papanikolas
- Nonfiction
- Leap: a Traveler in the Garden of Delights
- by Terry Tempest Williams
- 298 W7269 le
- by Terry Tempest Williams
- Poetry
- Carolina Ghost Woods
- by Judy Jordan
- 811 J8205 ca
- by Judy Jordan
1999
- Fiction
- Dancing Naked
- by Robert Van Wagoner
- fic V285 da
- by Robert Van Wagoner
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