The 2024 Colorado Book Awards winners were announced on June 21. Awards are presented in 15 categories by Colorado Humanities to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers.

Winners of genre interest are —

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• Dark Moon Shallow Sea by David R Slayton

SHORT STORY

• “Uranians” by Theodore McCombs

The finalists for the 2024 Colorado Book Awards have been announced. Awards are presented in 16 categories by Colorado Humanities to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers.

The winners will be announced on June 21, 2024.

Works of genre interest include —

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• Silenced by Ann Claycomb
• Not Quite Dead Geniuses at Large on an Angry Planet by R. Gary Raham
• Dark Moon Shallow Sea by David R Slayton

SHORT STORY

• “Uranians” by Theodore McCombs

ANTHOLOGY

• Stories of the Reconvergence by Angie Hodapp and Josh Viola

YOUNG ADULT

• Surviving Daybreak by Kendra Merritt

JUVENILE LITERATURE

• Skyriders by Polly Holyoke

The 2023 Colorado Book Awards winners have been announced. Awards are presented in 15 categories by Colorado Humanities to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers.

Winners of genre interest include —

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• Conscious Designs by Nathaniel White (Miami University Press)

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

• Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long (St. Martin’s)

GENERAL FICTION

• The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

The finalists for the 2023 Colorado Book Awards have been announced. Awards are presented in 15 categories by Colorado Humanities to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers.

The winners will be announced on June 10, 2023.

Works of genre interest include —

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• Conscious Designs by Nathaniel White (Miami University Press)
• Demon Riding Shotgun by L.R. Braden (Belle Bridge Books)
• Denver Moon: The thirteen of Mars by Warren Hammond and Joshua Viola (Hex Publishers)

ANTHOLOGY

• Bizarre Bazaar: A Collection of Stories from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers edited by Amy Drayez and Veronica R. Calisto (Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers)

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

• Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe (St. Martin’s)
• Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long (St. Martin’s)

The 2022 Colorado Book Awards winners have been announced. Awards are presented in 15 categories by Colorado Humanities to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers.

Winners of genre interest include —

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz (Blackstone Publishing)

ANTHOLOGY

• Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas, edited by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Joshua Viola and illustrated by Aaron Lovett (Hex Publishers)

The finalists for the 2022 Colorado Book Awards have been announced. Awards are presented in 15 categories by Colorado Humanities to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers.

The winners will be announced on June 25, 2022.

Works of genre interest include —

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

• Khyven the Unkillable by Todd Fahnestock (New Mythology Press)
• The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz (Blackstone Publishing)
• Magic and Misrule by KM Merritt (Blue Fyre Press)

Also of genre interest:

ANTHOLOGY

• Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas, edited by Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Joshua Viola and illustrated by Aaron Lovett (Hex Publishers)

JUVENILE LITERATURE

• Noah McNichol and the Backstage Ghost by Martha Freeman (Simon & Schuster)

THRILLER

• My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (Simon & Schuster)