Indiana Authors Awards
{{Short description|Indiana literary award}}
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The Indiana Authors Awards, also known as the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards, is a literary awards program that recognizes and honors authors from Indiana and literary works about Indiana. In 2020, awards were given in eight categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s literature, young adult literature, drama, genre and emerging. The awards program runs biennially, with books published in 2020 and 2021 honored in 2022.{{cite web| last1 = Christy | first1 = Matt | title = Indiana Authors Awards shortlists 40 books written by Hoosiers |website=fox59.com | date = 4 August 2022 | url = https://fox59.com/indiana-news/indiana-authors-awards-shortlists-40-books-written-by-hoosiers/ | access-date = 12 August 2022 }} Winners receive a cash prize, an Indiana limestone award trophy, and the opportunity to select an Indiana library to receive a donation.{{Citation| last1 = Trares | first1 = Ryan| title = Local writers honored among best Indiana authors of the year| newspaper = Daily Journal| date = 29 August 2020| url = https://dailyjournal.net/2020/08/29/local_writers_honored_among_best_indiana_authors_of_the_year/| access-date = 7 April 2022 }} The 2024 winners include the following categories: nonfiction, fiction, debut, genre, poetry, young adult, middle grade, children's, and drama.{{Cite web |title=2024 Honorees |url=https://indianaauthorsawards.org/honorees2024/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |website=Indiana Authors Awards |language=en-US}}
History
The awards program was founded in 2009 by philanthropists Eugene and Marilyn Glick, partnering with The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation to create a program which recognized authors annually. Honors were awarded to authors in the three main categories of national, regional, and emerging, with some years including recognition for lifetime achievement and general excellence.{{Citation |last1 = Bongiovanni |first1 = Domenica |title = You know about eating and shopping local. This big change will encourage you to read local. |newspaper = IndyStar |date = 27 August 2019 |url = https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/08/27/indiana-humanities-promote-best-books-win-indiana-authors-awards-indianapolis-public-library/2097451001/ |access-date = 7 April 2022 }}
In 2018, Glick Philanthropies announced a desire to expand the awards program. After a year hiatus, in 2019 Glick Philanthropies partnered with Indiana Humanities to offer an expanded program, awarding honors to books every other year and a new Literary Champion Award. The 2020 awards included books in eight categories and recognized the Indiana Writers Center as Literary Champion.{{cite web |last= Newman |first= Mark |url=https://ipbs.org/2020/09/03/ipbs-proudly-supports-indiana-authors-awards/|title=IPBS proudly supports Indiana Authors Awards |website= ipbs.org |publisher= Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations (IPBS)|date= September 3, 2020 |accessdate=2022-04-07}} In the spring of 2022, the Indiana Authors Awards Tour brought recent award-winning authors to Indiana communities.{{cite web| last1 = Gouveia | first1 = Marisol| title = Indiana Authors Awards Tour features Ashley Ford| newspaper = Indianapolis Recorder| date = 7 April 2022| url = https://indianapolisrecorder.com/indiana-authors-awards-tour-features-ashley-ford/| access-date = 7 April 2022 }} The most recent awards cycle occurred in August 2024.
Winners of awards for lifetime bodies of work
Following is a subset of the awards granted, focusing just on top honors that are for authors' complete lifetime works. These primarily are just the National Winners, the Regional Winners, and the Lifetime Achievement Awards which were all granted on basis of persons' entire body of works. It omits two National Finalist and four Regional Finalist awards given in 2009-10, the first years of the program, and not offered in any later year.Three of those six persons: Margaret McMullan, Scott Russell Sanders and James H. Madison later won National Winner, Regional Winner, or Lifetime Achievement awards and are included in the table presented. It includes two "Excellence" awards given, and it omits "Emerging Winner" and "Emerging Finalist" awards. In 2019, no awards were granted, and the focus of the program shifted to make awards for recent books in various categories (therefore not for entire bodies of work). No awards were given in 2021. In 2020 and 2022, there appears to be only one "Lifetime Achievement" award granted, included below.
The remaining awards through 2024 make up a set of authors comparable to other writers' halls of fame. These awards, for entire bodies of authors' complete work, are:
| class="wikitable sortable"
! | Year ! | Award ! | Author |
| -
| rowspan="2" | 2009 | National Winner |
| Regional Winner |
| rowspan="2" | 2010
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner
| Ray Boomhower |
| rowspan="2" | 2011
| National Winner | Margaret McMullan |
| Regional Winner |
| rowspan="3" | 2012
| Lifetime Achievement |
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner
| Barbara Shoup |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner |
| rowspan="2" | 2014
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner
| Norbert Krapf |
| rowspan="3" | 2015
| Lifetime Achievement |
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner |
| rowspan="3" | 2016
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner
| Philip Gulley |
| Genre Excellence Winner
(children’s picture books) |
| rowspan="3" | 2017
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner |
| Genre Excellence Winner
(middle-grade fiction) |
| rowspan="3" | 2018
| National Winner |
| Regional Winner |
| Lifetime Achievement |
| 2020
| Literary Champion | Indiana Writers Center |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
| Literary Champion | JL Kato |
| Lifetime Achievement |
| rowspan="2" | 2024
| Literary Champion | Tony Brewer |
| Lifetime Achievement |
Category Winners
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|+ !Year !Award !Author !Book |
| rowspan="8" |2020
|Nonfiction |The Book of Delights |
| Fiction
|Chris White |The Life List of Adrian Mandrick |
| Emerging
|Melissa Stephenson |Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back |
| Genre
|Pimp My Airship |
| Poetry
|Sightseer in this Killing City |
| Young Adult
|All the Things We Do in the Dark |
| Children's
|Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City |
| Drama
|The Jack Plays |
| rowspan="8" |2022
|Nonfiction |Craig Fehrman |Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote |
| Fiction
|The Town of Whispering Dolls |
| Debut
|Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir |
| Genre
|Paul Allor |Hollow Heart |
| Poetry
|Be Holding |
| Young Adult
|You Should See Me in a Crown |
| Middle Grade
|All He Knew |
| Children's
|Kim Howard |Grace and Box |
| rowspan="9" |2024
|Nonfiction |Edward Fujawa |Vanished Indianapolis |
| Fiction
|The Rabbit Hutch |
| Debut
|Brittany Means |Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways |
| Genre
|Rebecca McKanna |Don’t Forget the Girl |
| Poetry
|To Sleep in the Horse’s Belly: My Greek Poets and the Aegean Inside Me |
| Young Adult
|The Minus-One Club |
| Middle Grade
|Unfadeable |
| Children's
|Janna Matthies |Here We Come! |
| Drama
|Jennifer Blackmer |Predictor |
Notes
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