cartoon mash-up, Tragic's alter ego, Kev Parker
A poetry book with the title, A Murmuration of Starlings (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)must be a dead-set certainty to win an award, the title a poem in its own right. So, good luck to Jake Adam York whose work is one of the finalists for this years Colorado Book Awards in the poetry category. The other collective noun for starlings is, as well you all know, a scourge. Tragic's poetry book would have to be titled A Gaggle of Geese or maybe A Plump of Wildfowl or even a Knob of Widgeons.
Propelled to bestsellerdom by the omnipotent Oprah, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel by David Wroblewski, has not, to the best of Tragic's knowledge, gained any recognition for it's literary merit in Book Award World. It is in with a chance for the Colorados in the Fiction category, although, in Tragic's humble opinion, Linda Hogans delightful, People of the Whale: A Novel, is a much better book. Other contenders in the category include the deliciously named Orange Mint and Honey: A Novelby Carleen Brice and The Song of Jonahby Gene Guerin.
The Colorado awards have a couple of categories not often seen including Pictorial and Genre Fiction. There is also a much welcome History category where Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor Warby Thomas G. Andrews strikes the eye as a book for the home shelf.
Tragic maintains a Colorado Award summary page at Book Awards Online - official site link below.
Good luck to all. To the best of Tragic's knowledge winners will be announced during the Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival in Aspen, Colorado the week of June 21-26. Not 100% sure about that.
The Colorado Book Awardis a program that seeks to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s literary community. The Award is meant to both recognize outstanding authors and to promote those authors to Colorado readers. Their goal is to raise the profile of the literary community and recognize its contributors while increasing their accessibility to the everyday reader who will, in turn, appreciate and share their work.
The Colorado Book Awards began in 1991 with four categories—Non-Fiction, Fiction, Poetry and
Children’s. In 1993 Young Adult was added as a category. Since then, the Colorado Center for the Book (a program department of the Colorado Humanities since April 2004) has amended categories depending on the number and kind of books nominated. The Colorado Book Award has celebrated Colorado’s most noted authors, including John Fielder, Linda Hogan, Jon Krakauer, Kent Haruf, Margaret Coel, Tom Noel, Stephanie Kane, Avi, Bruce Ducker, David Milofsky, Joanne Greenberg, T.A. Barron and many others. Year indicates year of publication.
cartoon mash-up, Tragic's alter ego, Kev Parker
A poetry book with the title, A Murmuration of Starlings (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
must be a dead-set certainty to win an award, the title a poem in its own right. So, good luck to Jake Adam York whose work is one of the finalists for this years Colorado Book Awards in the poetry category. The other collective noun for starlings is, as well you all know, a scourge. Tragic's poetry book would have to be titled A Gaggle of Geese or maybe A Plump of Wildfowl or even a Knob of Widgeons.
by David Wroblewski, has not, to the best of Tragic's knowledge, gained any recognition for it's literary merit in Book Award World. It is in with a chance for the Colorados in the Fiction category, although, in Tragic's humble opinion, Linda Hogans delightful, People of the Whale: A Novel
, is a much better book. Other contenders in the category include the deliciously named Orange Mint and Honey: A Novel
by Carleen Brice and The Song of Jonah
by Gene Guerin.
The Colorado awards have a couple of categories not often seen including Pictorial and Genre Fiction. There is also a much welcome History category where Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
by Thomas G. Andrews strikes the eye as a book for the home shelf.
Tragic maintains a Colorado Award summary page at Book Awards Online - official site link below.
Good luck to all. To the best of Tragic's knowledge winners will be announced during the Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival in Aspen, Colorado the week of June 21-26. Not 100% sure about that.
