Finalist Readings in April and May
Colorado Springs
Saturdays at 4 p.m.
Finalists will read in-person at a variety of Pikes Peak Library District branches. Attendees can pose questions and talk with the finalists, and finalist books will be available for purchase at the readings and through Poor Richard’s Books & Gifts.
April 15 – History/Biography, Historical Fiction, & Pictorial at East Library
April 29 – Children’s Literature, Juvenile Literature, & Young Adult Literature at Ruth Holley Library
May 13 – Mystery, Romance, & General Fiction at Sand Creek Library
May 20 – Creative Nonfiction & General Nonfiction at East Library
May 27 – Literary Fiction, Poetry, & Anthology at Library 21c
June 3 – SciFi/Fantasy & Thriller at Rockrimmon Library
Finalist Celebration and Winners Announcement
To learn more about, partner with, or sponsor the Colorado Book Awards, please contact program coordinator Mary Hickey at mary@coloradohumanities.org
About the Colorado Book Awards
The Colorado Book Awards annually celebrates the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers. Volunteer selectors and judges from across Colorado read submissions to choose finalists and winners. To learn more about, partner with, or sponsor the Colorado Book Awards, please contact program coordinator Mary Hickey at mary@coloradohumanities.org
Colorado Book Awards 2022
2022 winners were announced at a celebration event on June 25, 2022 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House Studio Loft in Denver. There were 185 entries in 15 categories: anthology, biography, children’s literature, creative nonfiction, general nonfiction, general fiction, historical fiction, history, juvenile literature, literary fiction, mystery, poetry, science fiction/fantasy, thriller, and young adult literature. Volunteer selectors and judges from across Colorado read submissions to choose finalists and winners.
2022 Winners and Finalists
(Winners pictured)
Anthology
Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas
edited by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Joshua Viola and illustrated by Aaron Lovett
(Hex Publishers)
All the Lives We Ever Lived, Volume 2
edited by Manuel Aragon and Roxanne Banks Malia
(Lighthouse Writers Workshop)
Tell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Writers from Colorado’s Prisons
edited by Elijah Null, Julie Rada, and Suzie Q. Smith
(University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative – LuxLit Press)
Biography
Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy Seals
by David Philipps
(Penguin Random House)
The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
by Jane Little Botkin
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
by Jennifer Koshatka Seman
(University of Texas Press)
Children’s Literature
Read Island
by Nicole Magistro and illustrated by Alice Feagan
(Read Island LLC)
The Beak Book
by Robin Page
(Simon & Schuster)
Hugsby
by Dow Phumiruk
(Penguin Random House)
Creative Nonfiction
Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West
by Kathryn Wilder
(Torrey House Press)
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
by Jim Davidson
(St. Martin’s Press)
Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying
by Susan J. Tweit
(She Writes Press)
General Fiction
Mixed Company
by Jenny Shank
(Texas Review Press)
The Night of Many Endings
by Melissa Payne
(Lake Union Publishing)
The Boundaries of Their Dwelling
by Blake Sanz
(University of Iowa Press)
General Nonfiction
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
by Julian Rubinstein
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors
by Dave Jilk and Brad Feld
(Lioncrest Publishing)
Breakthrough: How to Overcome Doubt, Fear, and Resistance to Be Your Ultimate Creative Self
by Todd Mitchell
(Owl Hollow Press)
Historical Fiction
The Cape Doctor
by E.J. Levy
(Little, Brown and Company)
Luther, Wyoming
by Tomas Alamilla and Mario Acevedo
(Five Star Publishing)
Chloe’s Mistigri
by Thomas L. Hall
(NoCo Publishing)
History
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
by Adrian Miller
(The University of North Carolina Press)
Queen City: A Brief History and Illustrated Architecture New and Old of Denver, Colorado
by Karl Christian Krumpholz
(Tinto Press)
Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads
by Martin J. Smith
(Bower House)
Juvenile Literature
Alone
by Megan E. Freeman
(Simon & Schuster)
Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost
by Martha Freeman
(Simon & Schuster)
Bats, Bandits, and Buggies: A Ruby and Maude Adventure
by Nancy Oswald
(Burro Books)
Literary Fiction
What If We Were Somewhere Else
by Wendy J. Fox
(Santa Fe Writers Project)
Site Fidelity: Stories
by Claire Boyles
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Jeremy Bannister, or The Ups and Downs of an Aspiring Novelist
by Gary Reilly (posthumously by Mark Stevens)
(Running Meter Press)
Mystery
Red Rabbit on the Run
by Jodi Bowersox
(JB Artistry)
Canyonlands Carnage: A National Park Mystery
by Scott Graham
(Torrey House Press)
Break Bone Fever: A Finnerty and Liccione Mystery
by Wanda Venters and Mary Rae
(Written Dreams Publishing)
Poetry
We the Jury
by Wayne Miller
(Milkweed Editions)
Barefoot and Running
by Morgan Liphart
(Morgan Liphart)
Convergences
by Ruth Obee
(Ruth Obee)
White Lung
by Kimberly O’Connor
(Saturnalia Books)
Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Reincarnationist Papers
by D. Eric Maikranz
(Blackstone Publishing)
Khyven the Unkillable
by Todd Fahnestock
(New Mythology Press)
Magic and Misrule
by KM Merritt
(Blue Fyre Press)
Thriller
The Dead Husband: A Novel
by Carter Wilson
(Sourcebooks)
My Heart is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones
(Simon & Schuster)
The Secret Next Door: A Novel
by Rebecca Taylor
(Sourcebooks)
Young Adult Literature
Rise of the Red Hand
by Olivia Chadha
(Erewhon Books)
To Break a Covenant
by Alison Ames
(Page Street Publishing)
Girl on the Ferris Wheel
by Julie Halpern and Len Vlahos
(Macmillan Publishing)