2012 AWA Book of the Year Nominees
Appalachian Book of the Year Nominations
Fiction Nominees:
Be Still my Soul,
by Joanne Bischof
A Place More Kind than Home
by Wiley Cash
The Cove
by Ron Rash
The Devil's Son: Cap Hatfield and the End of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud
by Anne Black Gray
Midwife of Hope River
by Patricia Harman
The Dark Corner
by Mark Denise Frasier
Sherburn Stories
by Rod (R. T.) Smith
The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still,
edited by Ted Olson
Hellbender
by Jason Jack Miller
Hills of Fire: Bare-Knuckle Yarns of Appalachia Edited
by Frank Larnerd
Be Still my Soul,
by Joanne Bischof
A Place More Kind than Home
by Wiley Cash
The Cove
by Ron Rash
The Devil's Son: Cap Hatfield and the End of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud
by Anne Black Gray
Midwife of Hope River
by Patricia Harman
The Dark Corner
by Mark Denise Frasier
Sherburn Stories
by Rod (R. T.) Smith
The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still,
edited by Ted Olson
Hellbender
by Jason Jack Miller
Hills of Fire: Bare-Knuckle Yarns of Appalachia Edited
by Frank Larnerd
Poetry Nominees
She Let Herself Go: Poems,
by George Ella Lyon
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place,
by bell hooks
Revelations,
by
Ted Olson
Blacksnake at the Family Reunion
by David Huddle
She Who is Like a Mare: Poems of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier
Nursing Service
by Karen Koprba
by George Ella Lyon
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place,
by bell hooks
Revelations,
by
Ted Olson
Blacksnake at the Family Reunion
by David Huddle
She Who is Like a Mare: Poems of Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier
Nursing Service
by Karen Koprba
Nonfiction Nominees
A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music,
by Jason Howard
Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell,
edited by Elizabeth McCutchen Williams
Mountains on the Markets: Industry, the Environment, and the South,
by Randal Hall
Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia,
by Helen Matthews Lewis, edited by Patricia D. Beaver and Judith
Jennings
