The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library), has named the winners of the 2024 Washington State Book Awards for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2023. This year's winning titles are:
Fiction: The Laughter by Sonora Jha (HarperVia)
Creative nonfiction/memoir: Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong (Tin House Books)
General nonfiction/biography: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan (Viking)
Poetry: I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State, edited by Rena Priest (Empty Bowl Press)
YA literature: Painted Devils by Margaret Owen (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers)
Books for young readers: Duel by Jessixa Bagley, illustrated by Aaron Bagley (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Picture books: Ploof by Ben Clanton and Andy Chou Musser (Tundra Books)