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Awards

Other Awards

Award Categories: Recent Awards, Michigan Notable Books, State History Awards, Other Awards

2009 Award Recipients

• National Book Award Finalist

  • American Salvage

    Stories By Bonnie Jo Campbell

    American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell has been awarded as a finalist in the category of fiction from the National Book Awards.

• Michigan Center for the Book Selection for the National Book Festival

  • A Pocketful of Passage

    By Loraine M. Campbell

• Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award

  • Blue-Tail Fly

    Poems By Vievee Francis

    WSU Press author Vievee Francis, author of Blue-Tail Fly, is one of six recipents awards the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award.  Next year with the help of her Rona Jaffe Award, Francis will complete the research for her new collection of poems on the Wendish region of Texas, where her family has lived since the 1800s when the slave holding region was settled by German immigrants seeking religious freedom.

• Independent Publisher's Book Award

  • Race and Remembrance

    By Arthur L. Johnson
    With an Introduction by Charles V. Willie and a Foreword by Samuel Cook

    Bronze metal in the category of Autobiography/Memoir

• Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize

  • Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream

    Poems By M.L. Liebler

• Indie Excellence Book Awards

  • Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream

    Poems By M.L. Liebler

• Children's Literature Association Book Award

  • Poetry's Playground

    By Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

  • Poetry's Playground

    By Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

• ForeWord Book of the Year Award

  • Who's Jim Hines?

    By Jean Alicia Elster

    Finalist in the category of Juvenile Fiction

  • Guardian Building

    By James W. Tottis

    Finalist in the category of Architecture

  • Great Architecture of Michigan

    By John Gallagher, Photographed by Balthazar Korab

    Finalist in the category of Architecture

• National Best Books Awards

  • Back to School

    By Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor

    Finalist in the category of Education and Jewish Identity

• AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show Award

  • Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream

    Poems By M.L. Liebler

    Category of Jackets & Covers

• Great Lakes Great Books Award

  • Who's Jim Hines?

    By Jean Alicia Elster

    2009/2010 Great Lakes Great Books Award ballot for Grades 4-5

2007 Award Recipients

• Independent Publisher's Book Award

  • A Woman at War

    Edited by J. David Riva

    Bronze metal in the category of Biography

• Eric Hoffer Book Awards

  • A Woman at War

    Edited by J. David Riva

    GRAND PRIZE WINNER

• American Folklore Society Book Awards

  • The Stains of Culture

    By Ruth Tsoffar

• Society of Midland Authors Literary Competition

  • Broken Symmetry

    Poems By Jack Ridl

    Poetry Category

• National Jewish Book Awards

  • The Stains of Culture

    By Ruth Tsoffar

    Runner up in the National Jewish Book Awards in Women's Studies

2008 Award Recipients

• Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize

  • In Line for the Exterminator

    By Jim Daniels

• National Best Books Awards

  • After-Music

    Poems By Conrad Hilberry

    Finalist in the Poetry: General category

  • The Women Were Leaving the Men

    Stories By Andy Mozina

    Finalist in the Fiction & Literature: Short Story Fiction category

  • Voices of the Lost and Found

    Stories By Dorene O'Brien

    WINNER in the Fiction & Literature: Short Story Fiction category

  • Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream

    Poems By M.L. Liebler

    Finalist in the Poetry: General category

  • Trespassing

    By Janet Kauffman

    Finalist in the Non-Fiction: Narrative category

• Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies

  • Yiddishlands

    By David G. Roskies

    (Honorable Mention)

• Eric Hoffer Book Awards

  • Connecting the Dots

    Honorable Mention

• Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award

  • The Women Were Leaving the Men

    Stories By Andy Mozina

    2008 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Fiction

• Australian Association for Therapeutic Humor

  • Understanding Humor in Japan

    Edited by Jessica Milner Davis

    Category: Humour Research

• Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing

  • Contact Zones

    By Sheila J. Petty

    Shortlisted for the 2008 awards

2006 Award Recipients

• ForeWord Book of the Year Award

  • A Woman at War

    Edited by J. David Riva

    Finalist in category of biography

• Outreach Prize from the American Philological Association

  • Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough

    Edited with an Introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick
    Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    2006 Winner

2005 Award Recipients

• ForeWord Book of the Year Award

  • American City

    Photographed by William Zbaren, Text by Robert Sharoff

    Silver in the category of Architecture (1 of 3)

2004 Award Recipients

• German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize

  • Men Desiring Men

    By Susan E. Gustafson

2003 Award Recipients

• Choice Outstanding Academic Title

  • Cycles of Influence

    By Stephen Benson

2000 Award Recipients

• Choice Outstanding Academic Title

  • Without Hatreds or Fears

    By Laurence E. Prescott

2002 Award Recipients

• Center for Great Lakes Culture Book Awards

  • Windjammers

    By Ivan H. Walton and Joe Grimm

    Best Non-Fiction Book