Book Award Winners
Florida Nonfiction
Gold Gilbert King
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America EXCERPT
Silver Craig Pittman
The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Beautiful Orchid EXCERPT
Bronze Larry Eugene Rivers
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th-Century Florida EXCERPT
Enid Shomer’s fictional worlds reflect a poet’s eye
By Kathleen Ochshorn
General fiction
Gold Dennis Lehane, Live by Night EXCERPT
Silver Janis Owens, American Ghost EXCERPT
Bronze Mary Anna Evans, Plunder EXCERPT
Popular Fiction
Gold D.J. Niko, Th e Tenth Saint
Silver Michael Lister, Blood Sacrifi ce EXCERPT
Bronze Mary Anna Evans, Plunder
Poetry
Gold Campbell Mcgrath
In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys
Silver Terri Witek
Exit Island
Bronze Lola Haskins
The Grace to Leave
General Nonfiction
Gold Michael Grunwald
The New New Deal
Silver William A Link,
Links
Bronze Tracy Crow
Eyes Right: Confessions of a Woman Marine
Visual Arts
Gold Lu Vickers and Bonnie Georgiadis
Weeki Wachee Mermaids EXCERPT
Silver Robert L Crawford and William Brueckheimer
The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation
Bronze Gary R. Libby
Reflections II: Watercolors of Florida 1835-2000 EXCERPT
My Favorite Florida Place
Imagining the ghost galleons of long ago in Apalachee Bay.
By David Kirby
Bridging Cultures
Leaving Colombia but craving a taste of home.
By Edgardo Dangond
Dennis Lehane developed writing chops in Florida
By Lee Irby