Utah Center for the Book
Utah Book Award
"Due to factors beyond our control, the Utah Book Award contest and ceremony will be on hiatus for this year (2013). We will return in 2014. All books published in either 2012 or 2013 will be eligible for next year's awards. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to celebrating all the wonderful literary contributions of Utahns in 2014."
The 2011 Utah Book Award finalists have been announced! The Utah Book Award winners will be selected from among the finalists and announced at an event on October 5th. Read the press release for more information and join us for an evening in celebration of Utah and local writers!
The Utah Book Award was established by the Salt Lake City Public Library to honor exceptional achievements by Utah writers and to recognize outstanding literature written with a Utah theme or setting. In 1999, the first and only award was presented to author Robert Van Wagoner for his novel Dancing Naked. Since then, the categories have been expanded to include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literature for children and young adults.
The Utah Center for the Book invites nominations beginning January 1, 2013 for the annual Utah Book Award, a program that continues to be administrated through the Salt Lake City Public Library. This year's Utah Book Award will honor books published in 2012 that are judged to best represent the literary culture of the state in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young adult and children's literature. The competition is open to Utah authors and authors of books with a Utah theme or setting. A "Utah author" need not currently reside in Utah if he/she is a Utah native or is an author who forged significant and sustained literary ties to Utah while residing here in the past. The deadline for entries is April 1, 2013. Award winners will be announced in October 2013 at the Utah Humanities Book Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah.
To be eligible, books must be published and bound professionally, assigned an ISBN, and published in 2012 as indicated by the copyright date. Loose-leaf materials, downloadable books, and books recorded on tape or compact disc will not be accepted. Winners in each category receive $100; finalists receive $50. Entry forms are available at the link below.
For more information, contact Gail McCulloch or Michael Nordenstrom at the City Library, 801-524-8200.
Entry Form: Utah Book Award Entry Form
2008
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Young Adults
Children
2007
Fiction
The Arc and the Sediment
by Christine Allen-Yazzie
fic A432399 arca
Nonfiction
Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons
by Frederick H. Swanson
B R971165 sw
Poetry
Whale Song: A Poet's Journey
into Cancer
by Kenneth W. Brewer
811 B847 whp
Children/Young Adults
Book of a Thousand Days
by Shannon Hale
YA H1647 bo
2006
Fiction
Calling Out
by Rae Meadows
fic M48237 ca
Nonfiction
France Davis: An American Story Told
by France A. Davis and
Nayra Atiya
B D261873
Poetry
Weather Report
by Rob Carney
811 C289 we
Children/Young Adults
Around the House the Fox
Chased the Mouse
by Rick Walton
jp Walton
2005
Fiction
Rain in the Valley
by Helen Papanikolas
fic P2133 ra
Nonfiction
Eating Stone: Imagination and the
Loss of the Wild
by Ellen Meloy
599.649 M528 ea
Poetry
In All Their Animal Brilliance
by Lance Larsen
811 L334
Children/Young Adults
Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale
j Hale