The Vermont Book Awards
 are annual prizes for outstanding literature by Vermont authors, presented by 
Vermont Humanities
 and the 
Vermont Department of Libraries
. Every year prizes are awarded for books written by Vermont authors and published in the previous calendar year in four categories: Poetry, Fiction, Creative nonfiction, and Children’s literature.
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Join us for this community gathering of writers and readers, honoring books published by Vermont writers in 2024. A dessert reception with cash bar will be followed by a brief program revealing the four winning authors, and announcing Vermont Humanities' next Vermont Reads pick.
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Bill McKibben
 will deliver this year's keynote speech!
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Join us in the beautiful, historic chapel in 
College Hall
, at 
36 College Street
 in 
Montpelier
.
2024 Vermont Book Awards Finalists
Creative nonfiction
William Homestead for 
Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis
Lucy Ives for 
An Image of My Name Enters America
Adrie Kusserow for 
The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems
Ethan Tapper 
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
Fiction
M.T. Anderson for 
Nicked
Maria Hummel for 
Goldenseal
Carolyn Kuebler for 
Liquid, Fragile, Perishable
GennaRose Nethercott for 
Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart
Poetry
Julia C. Alter for 
Some Dark Familiar
Kellam Ayres for 
In the Cathedral of My Undoing
Margaret Draft for 
Nowhere Was a Lake
Alison Prine for 
Loss and Its Antonym
Children’s literature
Emma Hunsinger for 
How it All Ends
 (Middle grade graphic novel)
Kekla Magoon for 
The Secret Library
 (Middle grade novel)
Tanya Lee Stone for 
Remembering Rosalind Franklin
 (Picture book)
Disability Services
Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible. To request a specific accommodation or a reduced price ticket contact Miciah Bay Gault at mbaygault@vermonthumanities.org by April 18.
Hosts and Sponsors
The Vermont Book Awards are presented by Vermont Humanities and the Vermont Department of Libraries, with support from the following Vermont businesses, organization, and individuals:
Phoenix Books (lead sponsor)
The Audiobook Experience (at Voice Over Vermont)
Greenway Institute
Susan Z. Ritz
The Vermont Arts Council
Vermont Book Shop
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Keynote speaker Bill McKibben is an educator, environmentalist, and the author of more than 20 book. He helped founded 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, and recently launched 
Third Act
, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice.
Information Source: Vermont Humanities | eventbrite

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