Southern Book Prize
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (formerly the SEBA Book Award[1] and SIBA Book Award[2]) is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), first awarded in 1999.[1] Nominated books must be southern in nature or by a southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of their customers. Voting categories include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature.
The first awards were given in 1999.[3] From 1999 through 2007 winners were chosen by popular vote through an online voting mechanism.[3] Starting in 2008 winners were chosen from the list of finalists by a jury of SIBA booksellers, instead of by popular vote.[3] Beginning in 2016, the award was renamed the Southern Book Award and named on honor of southern writer Pat Conroy.[2]
Winners
SIBA Book Award
1999[1]
- Fiction: The Next Step in the Dance, Tim Gautreaux
- Nonfiction: Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
- Children: Out of the Ocean, Debra Frasier
- Poetry: Someone Will Go On Owing, Andrew Glaze
2000
- Fiction: Look Back All the Green Valley, Fred Chappell
- Nonfiction: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
- Children: Bugs & Critters I Have Known, Ann Heiskell Rickey
- Poetry: Elegy for the Southern Drawl, Rodney Jones
2001
- Fiction: Jim the Boy, Tony Earley
- Nonfiction: Somebody Told Me, Rick Bragg
- Children: Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
- Poetry: Zinc Fingers, Peter Meinke
2002
- Fiction: The Bridge (2001 novel), Doug Marlette
- Nonfiction: Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
- Children: How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux
2003
- Fiction: The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- Nonfiction: My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
- Children: Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
- Poetry: Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Cookbook: The Foster’s Market Cookbook, Sara Foster
2004[4]
- Fiction: Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton
- Nonfiction: The GRITS Guide to Life, Deborah Ford
- Children: How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long
- Poetry: Locales, Fred Chappell (Editor)
- Cookbook: The Gift of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis
2005
- Fiction: Saints at the River, Ron Rash
- Nonfiction: We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier, Celia Rivenbark
- Children: Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
- Poetry: A Companion for Owls, Maurice Manning
- Cookbook: Frank Stitt’s Southern Table, Frank Stitt
2006
- Fiction: Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
- Nonfiction: Marley & Me, John Grogan
- Children: Rosa, Nikki Giovanni (with Bryan Collier)
- Poetry: What Travels with Us, Darnell Arnoult
- Cookbook: Being Dead is No Excuse, Gayden Metcalfe & Charlotte Hays
2007
- Fiction: Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier
- Nonfiction: Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, Charles J. Shields
- Children: Alabama Moon, Watt Key
- Poetry: Keep and Give Away, Susan Meyers
- Cookbook: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
2008
- Fiction: Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
- Nonfiction: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
- Children: Deep in the Swamp, Donna Bateman, illustrated by Brian Lies
- Poetry: The House On Boulevard Street, David Kirby
- Cookbook: A Love Affair with Southern Cooking, Jean Anderson
2009
- Fiction: Serena, Ron Rash
- Nonfiction: The Prince of Frogtown, Rick Bragg
- Young Adult: Graceling, Kristin Cashore
- Children: Two Bobbies, Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery
- Poetry: Dear Darkness, Kevin Young
- Cookbook: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, Martha Hall Foose
2010
- Fiction: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Nonfiction: The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg
- Children: The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass
- Cookbook: The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern by Ted and Matt Lee
2011
- Fiction: Burning Bright by Ron Rash
- Nonfiction: The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jim Minick
- Young Adult: Countdown by Deborah Wiles
- Children: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
- Poetry: A House of Branches by Janisse Ray
- Cookbook: Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavors by Gena Knox
2012
- Fiction: Iron House by John Hart
- Nonfiction: Lions of the West by Robert Morgan
- Young Adult: Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact by A. J. Hartley
- Children: Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond (Jo MacDonald Series) by Mary Quattlebaum
- Poetry: Abandoned Quarry by John Lane
- Cookbook: The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle
2013
- Fiction: A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
- Nonfiction: Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail by Jay Erskine Leutze
- Young Adult: Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
- Children: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
- Poetry: Descent by Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Cookbook: The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day
2014
- Fiction: Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
- Nonfiction: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
- Young Adult: The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
- Children: The Girl from Felony Bay by J. E. Thompson
- Poetry: The Collected Poems of Cathy Smith Bowers by Cathy Smith Bowers
- Cooking: Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey: Recipes from My Three Favorite Food Groups and Then Some by John Currence
2015
- Fiction: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Nonfiction: Factory Man by Beth Macy
- Young Adult: League of Seven by Alan Gratz, Brett Helquist (illustrator)
- Children: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Cooking: Heritage by Sean Brock
Southern Book Prize
2016[2]
- Fiction: My Sunshine Away by M. O. Walsh
- Literary: Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
- Mystery: Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
- Thriller: The Bone Tree by Greg Isles
- Cookbook: Soul Food Love by Alice Randall
- Non-fiction: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
- History & Life Stories: Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
- Young Adult: Mosquitoland by David Arnold
- Youngsters: Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
References
- ^ a b c Summer, Bob (1999). "SEBA presents first book awards." Publishers Weekly, 246(20), 24. 1 Color Photograph. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Celebrate Independents! Announcing the 2016 Southern Book Prize Winners". Southern Book Prize. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
- ^ a b c 2008 SIBA Book Award
- ^ Steelman, Ben (2004, Jun 27). "Book marks; Edgerton Nabs SEBA Award for 'Piccadilly'". Star-News. ProQuest document ID 285439497. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.
External links
- SIBA Book Award, official website
- SIBA Book Award at LibraryThing