Writers' League announces 2015 book awards
The Writers’ League of Texas recently announced winners, finalists, and Discovery Award winners of its annual book awards competition.
Fiction
Winner: Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht
Finalists:
See How Small by Scott Blackwood
Barefoot Dogs by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska by Eileen Curtright
Eight Minutes by Lori Reisenbichler
Discovery Prize Winner: Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn
Nonfiction
Winner: The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South by Jo Ivester
Finalists:
A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas by Adam Briggle
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
The Burma Spring: Aung San Suu Kyi and the New Struggle for the Soul of a Nation by Rena Pederson
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell
Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend by Ron J. Jackson, Jr. and Lee Spencer White
Discovery Prize Winner: Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax
Picture Books
Winner: Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
Finalists:
Counting Crows by Kathi Appelt
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton
In the Canyon by Liz Garton Scanlon
What This Story Needs is a Pig in a Wig by Emma J. Virjan
Discovery Prize Winner: A Penguin Named Patience by Suzanna Lewis
Middle Grade/Young Adult
Winner: The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Finalists:
House Arrest by K.A. Holt
Randoms by David Liss
Wish Girl by Nikki Loftin
Kissing in America by Margo Rabb
Utopia, Iowa by Brian Yansky
Discovery Prize Winner: Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
Poetry
Winner: Our House Was on Fire by Laura Van Prooyen
Finalists:
One Blackbird at a Time by Wendy Barker
Requiem for Used Ignition Cap by J. Scott Brownlee
Salt Moon by Noel Crook
As If Light Actually Matters by Larry D. Thomas
Discovery Prize Winner: Rant. Chant. Chisme. by Amalia Ortiz
(From organization's website)
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