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MISSOURI LITERARY AWARD
ABOUT THE AWARD
The award is to encourage and recognize Missouri authors and promote interest in local authors’ books, whether the book is about Missouri or another subject. The award is based on literary merit. An honored author must be a Missourian by birth or have lived in Missouri for at least five years. The book for which the award is presented must have been published within the past three calendar years before the year of the Association Convention at which the award is presented. Reprints of works initially published before the cutoff year of the award are not eligible for consideration. An editor or translator may be considered if the book is of value to the permanent record of the State. The honoree must be living. Each award consists of a $600 honorarium and a commemorative plaque.
NOMINATIONS: Electronic submission is required. Submissions for the 2025 award will be accepted starting July 1, 2024.
AWARD WINNERS
2023
Fiction - Laura McHugh, What's Done in Darkness
2022
Fiction - Steve Wiegenstein, Scattered Lights
Nonfiction - Vivian Gibson, The Last Children of Mill Creek
2021
Fiction - Amy Engel, The Familiar Dark
Nonfiction - Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness; How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland
2020
Fiction - Sofia Grant, Lies in White Dresses
Nonfiction - (tie) C.J. Janovy, No Place Like Home and Karen Piper, A Girl's Guide to Missiles
2019
Fiction - Ann Leckie, Provenance
Nonfiction - Michael Wallis, The Beast Land Under Heaven
2018
Fiction - Alex George, Setting Free the Kites
Nonfiction - Nicholas J.C. Pistor, Shooting Lincoln
2017
Fiction - Craig Albin, Hard Toward Home
Nonfiction - Angela Dietz and Joseph Heathcott, Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900-1930
2016
Fiction - Laura McHugh, Weight of Blood
Nonfiction - Gayle Harper, Roundtrip With a Raindrop
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