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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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