Maine Literary Award

Given by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

232 Works / 234 Items 26,496 Books 1,628 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Winner (130), Finalist (104)
Categories:
Years:
All, 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

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

Finalist 104

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

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