Maine Literary Award

Given by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

232 Works / 234 Items 26,554 Books 1,628 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
Alle, Winner (130), Finalist (104)
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Years:
Alle, 2023 (8), 2022 (8), 2021 (9), 2020 (5), 2019 (20), 2018 (20), 2017 (23), 2016 (26), 2015 (33), 2014 (31), 2013 (18), 2011 & 2012 (1), 2012 (12), 2011 (5), 2009 (14)

Winner 130

VærkKategoriÅr
Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann af Maryann Cocca-LefflerChildren's2023
Light on Bone af Kathryn LaskyCrime Fiction2023
Night of the Living Rez: Stories af Morgan TaltyFiction2023
Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life af Gretchen LeglerJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2023
Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family af Debra SparkJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2023
Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life af Gretchen LeglerMemoir2023
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders af Kathryn MilesNonfiction2023
Sardines af Sashi KaufmanYoung People's Literature2023
The First Blade of Sweetgrass af Suzanne GreenlawChildren's2022
Dead by Dawn af Paul DoironCrime Fiction2022
Margreete's Harbor af Eleanor MorseFiction2022
Kuhkomossonuk Akonutomuwinokot: Stories Our Grandmothers Told Us af Wayne A NewellJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2022
The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine af Robin Clifford  WoodJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2022
We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration af Rachael CerrottiMemoir2022
The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine af Robin Clifford  WoodNonfiction2022
River Magic af Ellen BooraemYoung People's Literature2022
Within Plain Sight: A Detective Byron Mystery (A John Byron Novel Book 4) af Bruce Robert CoffinCrime Fiction2021
Another Work is Possible af Joshua A. KleinExcellence in Publishing2021
Blue Summer af Jim NicholsFiction2021
Maine and American Art: The Farnsworth Art Museum af Michael K. KomaneckyJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2021
From the Mountains to the Sea af Peter TaylorJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2021
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In af Phuc TranMemoir2021
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains af Kerri ArsenaultNonfiction2021
The Century: Poems af Éireann LorsungPoetry2021
Dark Blood Comes from the Feet af Emma J. GibbonSpeculative Fiction2021
Random Act af Gerry BoyleCrime Fiction2020
A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed af Jason BrownFiction2020
Chasing Maine's Second: A Fight for Congress in Paradise af Michael NortonJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2020
Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood af Maureen StantonMemoir2020
Silence af Jane BroxNonfiction2020
Isako Isako af Mia Ayumi MalhotraExcellence in Publishing2019
Return to Moose River: In Search of the Spirit of the Great North Woods af Earl BrechlinJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2019
Wayfarer: A Memoir af James S. Rockefeller Jr.Memoir2019
Midden (Poets Out Loud) af Julia BouwsmaPoetry2019
The Lies They Tell af Gillian FrenchYoung People's Literature2019
A Piece of the World af Christina Baker KlineFiction2018
One Man’s Maine: Essays on a Love Affair af Jim KrosschellJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2018
Redeeming Ruth: Everything Life Takes, Love Restores af Meadow Rue MerrillMemoir2018
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America af Frances FitzGeraldNonfiction2018
Work by bloodlight : poems af Julia BouwsmaPoetry2018
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr af John CrowleySpeculative Fiction2018
Grit af Gillian FrenchYoung People's Literature2018
Take Heart: Poems from Maine af Wesley McNairAnthology2017
Baby Bear's Not Hibernating af Lynn PlourdeChildren's2017
Straw Man af Gerry BoyleCrime Fiction2017
Stop Here, This is the Place af Susan ConleyExcellence in Publishing2017
Vexation Lullaby: A Novel af Justin TussingFiction2017
CAUGHT time. place. fish af Glen LibbyJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2017
Poor Your Soul af Mira PtacinMemoir2017
Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future af Caitlin ShetterlyNonfiction2017
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good af Colin WoodardNonfiction2017
Booker's Point (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) af Megan GrumblingPoetry2017
The Time Train af Eric M. BosargeSpeculative Fiction2017
Wrecked af Maria PadianYoung People's Literature2017
A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers af Liza BakewellAnthology2016
The Lemonade Hurricane: A Story of Mindfulness and Meditation af Licia MorelliChildren's2016
An Unbeaten Man af Brendan RiellyCrime Fiction2016
Historical Atlas of Maine af Stephen J. HornsbyExcellence in Publishing2016
Closer All the Time af Jim NicholsFiction2016
Ghost Buck: The Legacy of One Man's Family and its Hunting Traditions af Dean BennettJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2016
How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir af Kate ChristensenMemoir2016
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays af Michael PaternitiNonfiction2016
Little Arias (First Book) af Kristen CasePoetry2016
Either the Beginning or the End of the World af Terry FarishYoung People's Literature2016
The Story I Want to Tell: Explorations in the Art of Writing af The Telling RoomAnthology2015
Adventures in vacationland af Mark Scott RickettsChildren's2015
And Grant You Peace af Kate FloraCrime Fiction2015
Before We Eat: From Farm to Table af Pat BrissonExcellence in Publishing2015
Let Me Be Frank With You af Richard FordFiction2015
Island Naturalist af Kathie FiveashJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2015
The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood af Richard BlancoMemoir2015
Pigs Can't Swim: A Memoir (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) af Helen PeppeMemoir2015
The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America af Brian KevinNonfiction2015
Otherwise unseeable af Betsy ShollPoetry2015
The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill af Megan Frazer BlakemoreYoung People's Literature2015
E. B. White on Dogs af Martha WhiteAnthology2014
You're Wearing THAT to School?! af Lynn PlourdeChildren's2014
Sunrise (A John Bekker Mystery) af Al LamandaCrime Fiction2014
Maine: Island Time af Michael WeymouthExcellence in Publishing2014
Sparta af Roxana RobinsonFiction2014
The New England gardener's year : a month-by-month guide for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and upstate New York af Reeser ManleyJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2014
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman af Peter KornMemoir2014
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World af Lincoln PaineNonfiction2014
In someone else's house : poems af Christian BarterPoetry2014
SEVENTEEN: Book One (Volume 1) af Mark D. DiehlSpeculative Fiction2014
Out of Nowhere af Maria PadianYoung Adult2014
Exit 13 : a Maine guidebook in stories and poemsAnthology2013
One Cool Friend af Toni BuzzeoChildren's2013
Redemption af Kate FloraCrime Fiction2013
Interventions: A Novella & Three Stories (High and Dry; Horseman; Intervention; The Whore's Child) af Richard RussoExcellence in Publishing2013
Life Among Giants: A Novel af Bill RoorbachFiction2013
The Rosie's Bakery All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book af Judy RosenbergFiction2013
The changing nature of the Maine woods af Andrew M. BartonJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2013
When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine af Monica WoodMemoir2013
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners af Michael ErardNonfiction2013
Looking for the Gulf Motel af Richard BlancoPoetry2013
The Reawakening af Joseph SouzaSpeculative Fiction2013
Girl Unmoored af Jennifer Gooch HummerYoung Adult2013
Out & Allied: An Anthology of Performance Pieces Written by LGBTQ Youth and Allies af Cathy PlourdeAnthology2012
Sammy in the Sky af Barbara WalshChildren's2012
Trespasser af Paul DoironCrime Fiction2012
This Strange Land af Shara McCallumExcellence in Publishing2012
The Sweet Relief of Missing Children: A Novel af Sarah BraunsteinFiction2012
Father of the Rain af Lily KingFiction2012
Eric Hopkins : above and beyond af Carl LittleJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2012
The Foremost Good Fortune af Susan ConleyMemoir2011 & 2012
Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town af Susan Hand ShetterlyNonfiction2012
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America af Colin WoodardNonfiction2012
The hallelujah of listening af Preston H. HoodPoetry2012
Please don't go af Eric DimblebySpeculative Fiction2012
Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness af Donn FendlerYoung Adult2012
Maine in Four Seasons: 20 Poets Celebrate the Turning Year af Wesley McNairAnthology2011
The Fish House Door af Robert BaldwinChildren's2011
Phantom Noise af Brian TurnerExcellence in Publishing2011
Penetralia : poems af Richard FoersterPoetry2011
Touch Blue af Cynthia LordYoung Adult2011
The Unnameables af Ellen BooraemHonorable Mention2009
Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search af Mary Lee Coe FowlerHonorable Mention2009
The Next Country af Idra NoveyHonorable Mention2009
The Dump Man's Treasures af Lynn PlourdeHonorable Mention2009
King Baby af Lia PurpuraHonorable Mention2009
A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice af Richard RussoHonorable Mention2009
Give a Goat af Jan West SchrockHonorable Mention2009
A Darker, Sweeter String af Lee SharkeyHonorable Mention2009
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer af Fred KaplanWinner2009
Place Called Maine: 24 Writers on the Maine Experience af Wesley McNairWinner2009
The Usable Field af Jane MeadWinner2009
Brett McCarthy: Work In Progress af Maria PadianWinner2009
Cost af Roxana RobinsonWinner2009
Woman Who Speaks Tree: confessions of a tree hugger af Linda TatelbaumWinner2009

Finalist 104

VærkKategoriÅr
Beyond the Truth: A Detective Byron Mystery (A John Byron Novel Book 3) af Bruce Robert CoffinCrime Fiction2019
Death and a Pot of Chowder af Cornelia KiddCrime Fiction2019
Stowed Away af Barbara RossCrime Fiction2019
The Futility Experts af Margaret BroucekFiction2019
Bealport: A Novel of a Town af Jeffrey LewisFiction2019
Bopper’s Progress af John ManderinoFiction2019
Herbert L. Welch: Black Ghosts and Art in a Maine Guide's Wilderness af Graydon HilyardJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2019
Hands Employed Aright: The Furniture Making of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) af Joshua A. KleinJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2019
Enjoying the Ride: Two Generations of Tragedy and Triumph af Mitch SturgeonMemoir2019
The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made af Patricia O'TooleNonfiction2019
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (The American Revolution Series) af Nathaniel PhilbrickNonfiction2019
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro af Rachel SladeNonfiction2019
Appalachians Run Amok af Adrian BlevinsPoetry2019
Finchosaurus af Gail DonovanYoung People's Literature2019
The Dollar Kids af Jennifer Richard JacobsonYoung People's Literature2019
Do seals ever . . . ? : sea lions, walruses, and manatees af Fran HodgkinsChildren's2018
Death Warmed Over (the Thea Kozak Mystery Series, Book 8) af Kate FloraCrime Fiction2018
Wendigo af Vaughn C. HardackerCrime Fiction2018
Deadly Trespass af Sandra D. NeilyCrime Fiction2018
A Man for All Oceans: Captain Joshua Slocum and the First Solo Voyage Around the World af Stan GraysonExcellence in Publishing2018
The Girl of the Lake: Stories af Bill RoorbachFiction2018
Where Edges Don't Hold: A Small Island Miscellany af Christina Marsden GillisJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2018
Settling twice : lessons from then and now af Deborah Joy CoreyMemoir2018
I Know It in My Heart: Walking through Grief with a Child af Mary E. Plouffe PhDMemoir2018
Blazing Ahead: Benton MacKaye, Myron Avery, and the Rivalry That Built the Appalachian Trail af Jeffrey H. RyanNonfiction2018
The Unfastening af Wesley McNairPoetry2018
American Ghost af Paul GuernseySpeculative Fiction2018
The Glass Town Game af Catherynne M. ValenteYoung People's Literature2018
Halfway Wild af Laura FreudigChildren's2017
Led Astray af Kate FloraCrime Fiction2017
They Could Live with Themselves af Jodi PaloniFiction2017
Unknown Caller: A Novel (Yellow Shoe Fiction) af Debra SparkFiction2017
Acadia National Park: A Centennial Celebration af Tom Blagden Jr.John N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2017
In the Darkroom af Susan FaludiMemoir2017
A Good Man with a Dog: A Game Warden's 25 Years in the Maine Woods af Roger GuayMemoir2017
The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair af Margaret CreightonNonfiction2017
Walking Backwards af Lee SharkeyPoetry2017
The Island of Beyond af Elizabeth AtkinsonYoung People's Literature2017
Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature (Fiction - Young Adult) af Sashi KaufmanYoung People's Literature2017
One Maine Christmas Eve af Douglas CoffinChildren's2016
The Secret Bay af Kimberly RidleyChildren's2016
The Precipice af Paul DoironCrime Fiction2016
The Fisherman af Vaughn C. HardackerCrime Fiction2016
Well Read, Well Fed; A Year of Great Reads and Simple Dishes for Book Groups af Marcia F. BrownExcellence in Publishing2016
Enchanted August: A Novel af Brenda BowenFiction2016
The Eastern Book One : The Early Years af Deborah GouldFiction2016
Sadie's Winter Dream : Fishermen's Wives & Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs 1923-1938 af Judith Burger-GossartJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2016
Birth, Death, and a Tractor: Connecting An Old Farm To a New Family af Kelly Payson-RoopchandJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2016
Letters from Erastus: Field Notes on Grace af Anne D. EmersonMemoir2016
The Negotiator: A Memoir af George J. MitchellMemoir2016
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal (Biopolitics) af Rebecca M. HerzigNonfiction2016
River road : poems af Richard FoersterPoetry2016
Blissful Books & Beasts Beneath af Juss StinsonSpeculative Fiction2016
The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball af Elizabeth AtkinsonYoung People's Literature2016
Azalea, Unschooled af Liza KleinmanYoung People's Literature2016
Out & Allied Volume 2: An Anthology of Performance Pieces by LGBTQ Youth & Allies af Cathy PlourdeAnthology2015
Island voices II : Poetry of Monhegan af various poets of Monhegan IslandAnthology2015
The Secret Galaxy (Tilbury House Nature) af Fran HodgkinsChildren's2015
Albie's First Word: A Tale Inspired by Albert Einstein's Childhood af Jacqueline TourvilleChildren's2015
The Bone Orchard af Paul DoironCrime Fiction2015
Sniper af Vaughn C. HardackerCrime Fiction2015
Bitter Crossing (A Peyton Cote Novel) af D. A. KeeleyCrime Fiction2015
The Soda Bottle School: A True Story of Recycling, Teamwork, and One Crazy Idea af Laura KutnerExcellence in Publishing2015
Money Money Money Water Water Water af Jane MeadExcellence in Publishing2015
River Talk af C. B. AndersonFiction2015
A Year After Henry: A Novel af Cathie PelletierFiction2015
The Remedy for Love: A Novel af Bill RoorbachFiction2015
Eating in Maine : at home, on the town, and on the road af Jillian BedellJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2015
Voting Down the Rose af Anne B. GassJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2015
Life in Prison: Eight Hours at a Time af Robert ReillyMemoir2015
Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us af Murray CarpenterNonfiction2015
Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy af Kathryn MilesNonfiction2015
Motels where we lived af Claire MillikinPoetry2015
Same old story af Dawn PotterPoetry2015
Detroit as Barn: Poems af Crystal WilliamsPoetry2015
The Other Way Around (Fiction - Young Adult) af Sashi KaufmanYoung Adult2015
The Fog of Forgetting af G.A. MorganYoung Adult2015
Port city poems : contemporary poets celebrate Portland, Maine af Marcia F. BrownAnthology2014
A poet's sourcebook : writing about poetry, from the ancient world to the present af Dawn PotterAnthology2014
The perfect Christmas egg af Kelly EllerbrookChildren's2014
The Secret Pool af Kimberly RidleyChildren's2014
Massacre Pond af Paul DoironCrime Fiction2014
The Eye of the Whale af Jennifer O'ConnellExcellence in Publishing2014
Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles af Jr. Ron CurrieFiction2014
Pigen uden navn af Christina Baker KlineFiction2014
Art of Katahdin af David LittleJohn N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2014
This Cider Still Tastes Funny!: Further Adventures of a Game Warden in Maine af John Ford Sr.John N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2014
Lifesaving Lessons: Notes from an Accidental Mother af Linda GreenlawMemoir2014
World Locked In: Six Weeks in Coma and Beyond af Mark HathawayMemoir2014
Deer Isle's undefeated America's Cup crews : humble heroes from a downeast island af Mark J. GabrielsonNonfiction2014
Bill Moss : fabric artist and designer af Marilyn MossNonfiction2014
The next hunger af Kimberly Cloutier GreenPoetry2014
Calendars of Fire af Lee SharkeyPoetry2014
The Perseid Collapse af Steven KonkolySpeculative Fiction2014
Necessity's Child af Sharon LeeSpeculative Fiction2014
The Water Castle af Megan Frazer BlakemoreYoung Adult2014
A Girl Called Problem af Katie QuirkYoung Adult2014
Bad Little Falls af Paul DoironCrime Fiction2013
The Body in the Boudoir af Katherine Hall PageCrime Fiction2013
Red ruby heart in a cold blue sea af Morgan Callan RogersFiction2013
The Pretty Girl: Novella and Stories af Debra SparkFiction2013
Two Men Ten Suns af Jeff FoltzSpeculative Fiction2013
Aequitas af Katherine SilvaSpeculative Fiction2013
Clammed Up af Barbara RossCrime Fiction

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