We’re totally stoked to announce that debut author Steven Dunn’s Potted Meat (TS Press 2016) has been chosen as a finalist for a Colorado Book Award in the category of Literary Fiction.
See the full list of finalists below. Congrats to all.
Anthology
Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, edited by Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Hex Publishers)
Found: Short Stories by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, edited by Mario Acevedo (RMFW Press)
Stories That Need to Be Told: 2016, edited by Jennifer Top (TulipTree Publishing, LLC)
Sunrise Summits: A Poetry Anthology, edited by Dean K Miller (MDK, Inc.)Biography
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism by Paul Youngquist (University of Texas Press)
Finding Dorothy Scott: Letters of a WASP Pilot by Sarah Byrn Rickman (Texas Tech University Press)
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark Lee Gardner (HarperCollins Publishers)Children’s Literature
Octopuses One to Ten by Ellen Jackson, illustrations by Robin Page (Simon & Schuster)
Sissy Bear at The Fort by Holly Arnold Kinney, illustrations by Christine Wald (Fur Trade Press, LLC)
Space Boy and the Space Pirate by Dian Curtis Regan, illustrations by Robert Neubecker (Boyds Mills Press)Creative Nonfiction
Appealing for Justice: One Colorado Lawyer, Four Decades, and the Landmark Gay Rights Case Romer v. Evans by Susan Berry Casey (Gilpin Park Press)
Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls by Lindsay King-Miller (Plume Books)
The Man Who Thought He Owned Water: On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food by Tershia d’Elgin (University Press of Colorado)General Fiction
Breaking Wild: A Novel by Diane Les Becquets (Berkley Books)
Improbable Fortunes: A Novel by Jeffrey Price (Archer)
The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire by Linda Lafferty (Lake Union Publishing)
The San Clemente Bait Shop & Telephony: A Novel by Patti Hill (Garden Wall Press)General Nonfiction
Colorado Excursions with History, Hikes and Hops by Ed Sealover (Arcadia Publishing)
Colorado Then & Now by Grant Collier (Collier Publishing)
We Have Your Daughter: The Unsolved Murder of JonBenét Ramsey Twenty Years Later by Paula Woodward (Prospecta Press)Genre Fiction
Amaryllis and Other Stories by Carrie Vaughn (Fairwood Press)
Lost Time by D. L. Orton, illustrations by Micah McDonald (Rocky Mt. Press)
Sleeper Protocol by Kevin Ikenberry (Red Adept Publishing)History
Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies by Thomas G. Andrews (Harvard University Press)
Juan Rivera’s Colorado, 1765: The First Spaniards Among the Ute and Paiute Indians on the Trails to Teguayo by Steven G. Baker with foreword and translation by Rick Hendricks and illustrations Gail Carroll Sargent (Western Reflections Publishing Co.)
Sea of Sand: A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve by Michael M. Geary (University of Oklahoma Press)Juvenile Literature
Mary Andromeda and the Amazing Eye by J.G. Kemp (J.G. Kemp Stories in Science)
Soldier Sister, Fly Home by Nancy Bo Flood, illustrations by Shonto Begay (Charlesbridge Publishing)
Waiting for Augusta by Jessica Lawson (Simon & Schuster)Literary Fiction
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad (Penguin Books)
Madagascar: New and Selected Stories by Steven Schwartz (Engine Books)
Potted Meat by Steven Dunn (Tarpaulin Sky Press)Mystery
Blood on the Tracks by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer)
Inherit the Bones by Emily Littlejohn (Minotaur Books)
Stalking Ground by Margaret Mizushima (Crooked Lane Books)Poetry
Post-: Poems by Wayne Miller (Milkweed Editions)
Third Voice by Ruth Ellen Kocher (Tupelo Press)
You Ask Me To Talk About the Interior by Carolina Ebeid (Noemi Press)Thriller
DED Reckoning: Vengeance Takes a Road Trip by Larry “Animal” Garner (Two Fingers and a Thumb Enterprises)
Revelation: A Thriller by Carter Wilson (Oceanview Publishing)
The Coalition by Samuel Marquis (Mount Sopris Publishing)Young Adult Literature
Beneath Wandering Stars by Ashlee Cowles (Merit Press/F+W)
Life at the Speed of Us by Heather Sappenfield (Flux/North Star Editions)
Perfect Liars by Kimberly Reid (Lee & Low Books/Tu Books)