Haiku ready?
Meet the winners of our Hurricane Haiku contest
A witty guide and generous soul
David Kirby, winner of the 2016 Florida Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing, discusses early influences (whiskey-drinking Cajunfiddle players?) and how he tries to evoke a roller coaster of emotions in his writing.
FLORIDA NONFICTION
GOLD Susan Cerulean, Coming to Pass
SILVER Arva Moore Parks, George Merrick
BRONZE Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home
GENERAL FICTION
GOLD Jesse Goolsby, I’d Walk with my Friends if I Could Find them
SILVER Gracie L. Chandler, Free to Be
BRONZE Katherine Clark, The Headmaster’s Darlings
GENERAL NONFICTION
GOLD Cynthia Barnett, Rain
SILVER J. Matthew Gallman, Defining Duty in the Civil War
BRONZE June Melby Benowitz, Challenge & Change
POPULAR FICTION
GOLD Patricia Gussin, After the Fall
SILVER Marti Green, The Price of Justice
BRONZE Bruce Thomason, Perception of Power
VISUAL ARTS
GOLD Nic Stoltfus, Coastal Dune Lakes
SILVER Robert L. Crawford, Ticks and Politics in South Florida
SPANISH LANGUAGE
GOLD Andrés Pi Andreu,
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
GOLD Dianne Ochiltree, It’s a Seashell Day
SILVER Lane Frederickson, Monster Trouble!
BRONZE Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Moving Target
YOUNG ADULT
GOLD Shaun David Hutchinson, Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
SILVER Patrick Kendrick, The Savants
BRONZE Gabriel Horn, Motherless
POETRY
GOLD Brandi George, Gog
SILVER Donald Morrill, Awaiting
