The 2021 winners for The Vermont Book Award have been announced and AuthorPods is delighted to share that author Melanie Finn is among them (find out more about Finn’s novel, The Hare, in this interview on the AuthorPods blog).
Alison Bechdel won for creative nonfiction (The Secret to Superhuman Strength) and Shanta Lee Gander for poetry (Ghettoclaustrophobia: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues)
Past winners include Martin Philip who won for Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes.
In 2014, Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) established the Vermont Book Award in partnership with The Vermont Department of Libraries and Vermont Humanities. The award aims to celebrate “work of outstanding literary merit by Vermont authors and celebrates the long tradition of literature in the state”.
This year’s winners were announced on April 30th, 2022 at The Vermont Book Award celebration in Montpelier, Vermont.
2021 Vermont Book Awards Finalists
Fiction:
The Hare, by Melanie Finn
North, by Brad Kessler
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, by Nathaniel Ian Miller
An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories, by Ricardo Wilson
Creative Nonfiction:
The Secret to Superhuman Strength, by Alison Bechdel
But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits, by Kimberly Harrington
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People, by Kekla Magoon
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home, by Alexander Wolff
Poetry:
Disintegration Loops, by Stephen Cramer
GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, by Shanta Lee Gander
American Wake, by Kerrin McCadden
