New Hampshire Literary Awards

New Hampshire Literary Awards descriptions and past winners.

Award for Outstanding Children's Literature
Awarded to a writer for a book of children's literature. This may be a picture book, chapter book, or book of young adult fiction or nonfiction.

Past recipients: Lita Judge and Joseph Monninger, 2009; Julie Baker, 2007; Tomie dePaola, 2005; Terry Farish, 2003; Janet Buell, 1998; Elizabeth Friedrich, 1996; Muriel Dubois, 1994; Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland, 1992.

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Award for Outstanding Book of Fiction
Awarded to a writer for a book of fiction. This may be a novel or a collection of short stories and may be mainstream or may focus on a particular genre, such as mystery or science fiction.

Past recipients: James Patrick Kelly, 2009; Rebecca Curtis, 2007; Christopher Brookhouse, 2005; Barbara Dimmick, 2003; Ernest Hebert, 2001 and 1994, Rebecca Rule, 1996; Thomas Williams, 1992.

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The Donald M. Murray Outstanding Journalism Award
Awarded to a writer for a collection of articles, essays, or columns. Work may be published in newspapers or magazines, in print or online, and may inclde investigative journalism, news stories, feature stories, creative nonfiction, biography, travel, and other nonfiction subjects. Nominees should submit three to five pieces. This award is given in honor of Donald M. Murray, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who died in December 2006. A $500 cash prize is part of this award.

Past recipients: John Walters, 2009; Annemarie Timmins, 2007; Mike Pride, 1996; Edie Clark, 1994.

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Outstanding Book of Poetry
Awarded to a poet for an outstanding book or chapbook of poetry. (This award replaces the Jane Kenyon Award that was endowed in memoriam to Jane Kenyon in 1996.)

Past recipients: Mimi White, 2009; Maggie Dietz, 2007; Patricia Fargnoli, 2005; L. R. Berger, 2003; Wesley McNair, 2003; Cleopatra Mathis, 2001; Cynthia Huntington, 1998; Charles Simic, 1996; Jane Kenyon, 1994; Maxine Kumin, 1992.

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Award for Outstanding Book of Nonfiction
Awarded to a New Hampshire writer for a book of nonfiction. This may be creative nonfiction, biography, memoir, historical nonfiction, or books that focus on travel, education, and other nonfiction subjects.

Past recipients: Mimi Schwartz, 2009; Edith Milton, 2007; Jim Collins, 2005; Sy Montgomery, 2003 and 1992; Richard Adams Carey, 2001; Hilary Nelson, 1998; David Dobbs and Richard Ober, 1996; David Carroll, 1994.

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Award for Lifetime Achievement
This award will be given to a major figure in New Hampshire whose contributions to the literary landscape and writing community are deemed to be particularly oustanding.

Past recipients: David Carroll, 2009; Theodore Weesner, 2007; Ruth Doan MacDougall, 2005; Tomie dePaola, 2003; Donald M. Murray, 2001; Maxine Kumin, 1998; Elizabeth Yates, 1996; Daniel Doan, 1994; Donald Hall, 1994.

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