The American Society of Journalists and Authors's annual writing awards, honoring the outstanding nonfiction work produced on a freelance basis during the past year, include book awards. The awards will be presented April 26 at the ASJA Writers conference in New York City. The book winners and honorees:
General nonfiction winner: Running Away to Home by Jennifer Wilson (St. Martin's)
General nonfiction honorable mentions:
Blood Work by Holly Tucker (Norton)
Better by Mistake by Alina Tugend (Riverhead)
Service/self help winner: Naked at Our Age by Joan Price (Seal Press)
Service/self help honorable mentions:
Built on Values by Nancy Shepherdson (and Ann Rhoades) (Jossey-Bass)
Having Children After Cancer by Gina Shaw (Celestial Arts)
Memoir/autobiography winner: The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn (Viking)
Memoir/autobiography honorable mentions:
Far Away from the Tigers by Jane Katch (University of Chicago Press)
Not Dead Yet by John Hanc (and Phil Southerland) (Thomas Dunne Books)
Children's/YA honorable mentions:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Penny Colman (Holt)
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren (Houghton Mifflin)
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Finalists for the 2011 Book of the Year Awards, sponsored by ForeWord Reviews and "designed for booksellers and librarians to share in the process of discovering distinctive books across a number of genres with judgments based on their own authority and on patron interests," have been chosen. The winners will be announced on June 23 during ALA in Anaheim, Calif.
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Don McKay won the $10,000 BMO Winterset Award, which celebrates writing by authors from Newfoundland and Labrador, for his essay collection The Shell of the Tortoise, Quillblog reported.