2021 Vermont Book Award Finalists Announced

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2021 Vermont Book Award Finalists Announced

开云体育 | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published April 1, 2022 at 9:21 AM EDT

A photo of a building with illuminated Grecian columns, against a night sky with the moon shining. — The Vermont Book Award celebration will be held at Alumnx Hall at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

If you're a fan of reading books by Vermont authors, this is an exciting time of year. That鈥檚 because the finalists for the Vermont Book Award are being announced, and this year there is a new partnership to oversee the award that honors Vermont wordsmiths in fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry.

The new partnership links three organizations: , the and .

Miciah Bay Gault, MFA in Writing Coordinator for the , joined VPR to announce the finalists yet again.

The nominees, announced Wednesday, fall within three categories 鈥� fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry.

The 2021 Vermont Book Award finalists are:

Fiction:

The Hare, by Melanie Finn
North, by Brad Kessler
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, by Nathaniel Ian Miller
An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories, by Ricardo Wilson

Creative nonfiction:

The Secret to Superhuman Strength, by Alison Bechdel
But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits, by Kimberly Harrington
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party鈥檚 Promise to the People, by Kekla Magoon
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home, by Alexander Wolff
Poetry:
Disintegration Loops, by Stephen Cramer
GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, by Shanta Lee Gander
American Wake, by Kerrin McCadden

The 2021 winners will be announced at the Vermont Book Award celebration, Saturday, April 30th, at 7 p.m. at the . The event is hosted by , who will also reveal their choice for 2022, their one-book community reading program, during the evening.

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