IACP Cookbook Awards

The Bram Stoker Awards

The Horror Writer’s Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement annually. The awards are named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. 

The PEN/Bellwether Awards

The PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction is a career-founding prize, which promotes fiction that addresses issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships. Established by novelist Barbara Kingsolver in 2000, it is awarded biennially to the author of an unpublished novel manuscript of high literary caliber that exemplifies the prize’s founding principles.

The Lammy's

Created by LAMBDA Literary over 30 years ago to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world, these awards celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.

Nebula Awards

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The 2019 winners are:

The Edgar Awards

The Edgar Awards are given annually by the Mystery Writers of America and recognize the best in mystery writing. They are named in honor of American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). The 2020 winners include these books:

The Massachusetts Book Awards

Each year the Massachusetts Center for the Book presents The Massachusetts Book Awards, recognizing significant works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s and young adults’ literature published by Commonwealth residents or about Massachusetts subjects.  The Massachusetts Center for the Book, chartered as the Commonwealth Affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is a public-private partnership charged with developing, supporting, and promoting cultural programming to advance the cause of books and reading and enhance the outreach potential of Massachusetts libraries.

The 20th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards were announced on September 9, 2020, for books published in 2019.  All award books are added to Special Collections at the State Library of Massachusetts and featured at the National Book Festival.

The YALSA Book Awards

FOSEL’s current display of Book Award Winners is the Young Adults Library Services Association (YALSA), which honors the best teen literature each year with its six literary awards, announced each year at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. This year’s YALSA winner is Dig, by the acclaimed author A.S. King, who has been called “one of the best Y.A. writers working today” by the New York Times Book Review. In addition to Dig, the 2020 Michael L. Printz Award winner and a LA Times Book Prize finalist, King is the author of the 2016's Still Life with Tornado, 2015’s surrealist I Crawl Through It, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, Reality Boy, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz among others. King, who also writes Middle Grade fiction under the name of Amy Sarig King, is a faculty member of the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has taught literacy to adults in Ireland, and lives in Pennsylvania.

The 2019 Lambda Awards

The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Awards

The August Book Awards Featured in the SE Library's Parkside Window Celebrate the 2019 Winners of the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Prizes for Children's Literature

Nominations and Previous Winners of the U.K.'s Women's Prize

Book Award Winners is a program sponsored by the Friends of the South End Library to connect local residents to a diverse group of organizations that recognize outstanding literary work in a broad variety of categories.

 THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

Written by Women. For Everyone.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize, is one of the U.K.’s most prestigious literary prizes. It is awarded  each year to a female author of any nationality for the best full-length novel written in English, and published in the U.K. in the preceding year.

First awarded in 1996, its creation was in response to the selection process for the 1991 Booker Prize. That year, no women authors were short-listed for this prestigious award, even though 60 percent of the books written in 1991 were authored by women. Past Women’s Prize for Fiction winners represent a Who’s Who of the world’s female authors, including Boston area novelist Suzanne Berne, who spoke recently at the South End Library about her latest novel, The Dogs of Littlefield.  She won the Orange Award in 1999 for her first novel,A Crime in the Neighborhood.

FOSEL board members Jenni Watson and Reinhold Mahler, who installed the latest Book Awards Winners window at the SE library

Previous winners include: 2018:Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie; 2017:The Power by Naomi Alderman; 2016:The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney; and 2015: How to Be Both by Ali Smith.

 The 2019 prize will be announced June 5 and the nominees are: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker; Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton; My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite; the Pisces by Melissa Broder; Milkman by Anna Burns; Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi; Ordinary People by Diana Evans; Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott; An American Marriage by Tayari Jones; Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li; Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn; Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli; Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden; Circe by Madeline Miller; Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss; and Normal People by Sally Rooney.

2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly known as the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Since the 1950s, they’ve honored the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television. Past winners include leading authors  like Raymond Chandler, John Le Carre, Dick Francis, Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane and Stephen King. FOSEL’s second display of Award Winning Books in the library’s parkside window show the 2018 winners, also listed below.

Edgar Allan Poe, for whom the award is named, was a writer, editor and literary critic best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. Poe has a local connection; he was born in Boston in 1809 near what is today the intersection of Boylston and Charles Streets. A statue of Poe is located at that corner.

 BELOW ARE THE 2018 EDGAR AWARD INNERS:

 Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (novel)

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper (first novel)

The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola (paperback original)

Killers of the Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann (fact crime)

Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson (critical/biographical)

Spring Break by John Crowley (short story)

Vanished ! by James Ponti (juvenile, 7-12 years old)

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (young adult)

Somebody to Love by Noah Hawley (episode in a TV series)

The Queen of Secrets by Lisa D. Gray (Robert L. Fish Memorial (Award for best first short story by an American writer)

The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman (Mary Higgins Clark (Award for a suspense novel most closely written in the MHC tradition)

The 2018 Massachusetts Book Awards

The first display in the South End library’s Book Award window. FOSEL has ordered window banners for the project, which will be installed as soon as they come in.

The Friends of the South End Library has initiated a new project to highlight award-winning books in the South End library’s park-side window to the left of the entrance. FOSEL board member Reinhold Mahler has worked closely with library volunteer, Jenni Watson, to install the first display, of the 2018 winners for books authored in 2017, selected by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Our goal is to connect local residents to a diverse group of organizations that recognize outstanding literary work in a broad variety of categories and..if inspired, to apply.

The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize significant works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s/young adult literature published by Massachusetts residents. They are sponsored by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and have been awarded since 2000. Winners are selected for originality, liveliness and engaging presentations, as well as for the quality of their publication. 

The winners of books (published in 2017) are: Mercury, by Margot Livesey (fiction); A World of Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, by Jane Kamensky (non-fiction); Vivas to Those Who Have Failed, by Martin Espada (poetry); and The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial, by Susan E. Goodman (children’s).

Any individual, organization or company can nominate a book for these awards. The deadline for the 2018 awards is December 31, 2018. Selections are made by a panel of judges from across Massachusetts. Prize-winning books are added to the Special Collections at the State Library of Massachusetts and promoted throughout the state. 

For more information visit www.massbook.org. or call 617 872-3718.