Poets & Writers magazine has announced the winners of the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards, which recognize "authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community," are Elizabeth George; Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Christopher Soto and Javier Zamora, organizers of Undocupoets; and Erin Belieu, Cate Marvin and Ann Townsend, cofounders of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Paul Slovak, executive editor at Viking Books, will receive this year's Editor's Award. The winners will be honored March 22 in New York City at Poets & Writers' annual benefit dinner, In Celebration of Writers.
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The winners of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards include Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History by Lee Marmon and Tom Corbett (UNM Press) for best book; Hoe, Heaven & Hell by Nasario Garcia (UNM Press) for best book on New Mexico, and Wild in Arizona: Photographing Arizona's Wildflowers by Paul Gill and Colleen Miniuk-Sperry (Analemma Press) for best book on Arizona. See the winners in more than 50 categories here.
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The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has chosen its 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Awards shortlist. The six winners will be chosen from among these 12 titles in early January.