Julia Ward Howe Awards 2020

-for books published in 2019-


Fiction — Winners

  • The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman (Simon and Schuster)

Fiction — Finalists

  • Bunny by Mona Awad (Penguin/Viking)

  • The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer (Back Bay/Little Brown)

Non-Fiction — Winner

  • Floating Coast by Bathsheba Demuth (WW Norton)

Non-Fiction — Finalists

  • The Club by Leo Damrosch (Yale)

  • Seeing Trees by Sonja Dumpelmann (Yale)

  • American Radicals by Holly Jackson (Crown/Penguin)

Non-Fiction — Honorable Mention

  • The Known, the Secret, the Forgotten by Joan Wheelis (WW Norton)

Poetry — Winner

  • Tap Out by Edgar Kunz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Poetry — Finalist

  • Even the Dark by Leslie Williams (Southern IL University Press)

Young Readers — Winner

  • 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Lisa Rogers (Schwartz & Wade/Penguin)

Young Readers — Finalists

  • Tiny Feet Between the Mountains by Hanna Cha (Simon & Schuster)

  • What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett (Beach Lane)

  • Ruby in the Sky by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo (Farrar Strauss Giroux)

2020 Discovery Awards

First Place ~~ Mona Baloch for Inaya and the Moon

Second Place ~~ Cathy Stenquist for I Wish I Were

Third Place ~~ Amy Benoit and Sue Lovejoy for Perfect Pirates

Honorable Mention ~~ Mary E. Cronin for Like a Mother Bear:

Jeanne Manford Stands Up for Gay Kids

Honorable Mention ~~ Gayle Stern for Kite’s Unexpected Flight