Southern Book Prize

Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (formerly the SEBA Book Award[1] and SIBA Book Award[2]) is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), first awarded in 1999.[1] Nominated books must be southern in nature or by a southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of their customers. Voting categories include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature.

The first awards were given in 1999.[3] From 1999 through 2007 winners were chosen by popular vote through an online voting mechanism.[3] Starting in 2008 winners were chosen from the list of finalists by a jury of SIBA booksellers, instead of by popular vote.[3] Beginning in 2016, the award was renamed the Southern Book Award and named on honor of southern writer Pat Conroy.[2]

Winners

SIBA Book Award

1999[1]

2000

  • Fiction: Look Back All the Green Valley, Fred Chappell
  • Nonfiction: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
  • Children: Bugs & Critters I Have Known, Ann Heiskell Rickey
  • Poetry: Elegy for the Southern Drawl, Rodney Jones

2001

2002

  • Fiction: The Bridge (2001 novel), Doug Marlette
  • Nonfiction: Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
  • Children: How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

2003

2004[4]

  • Fiction: Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton
  • Nonfiction: The GRITS Guide to Life, Deborah Ford
  • Children: How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long
  • Poetry: Locales, Fred Chappell (Editor)
  • Cookbook: The Gift of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

  • Fiction: Iron House by John Hart
  • Nonfiction: Lions of the West by Robert Morgan
  • Young Adult: Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact by A. J. Hartley
  • Children: Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond (Jo MacDonald Series) by Mary Quattlebaum
  • Poetry: Abandoned Quarry by John Lane
  • Cookbook: The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle

2013

2014

2015

Southern Book Prize

2016[2]

  • Fiction: My Sunshine Away by M. O. Walsh
  • Literary: Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
  • Mystery: Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
  • Thriller: The Bone Tree by Greg Isles
  • Cookbook: Soul Food Love by Alice Randall
  • Non-fiction: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
  • History & Life Stories: Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
  • Young Adult: Mosquitoland by David Arnold
  • Youngsters: Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

References

  1. 1 2 3 Summer, Bob (1999). "SEBA presents first book awards." Publishers Weekly, 246(20), 24. 1 Color Photograph. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Celebrate Independents! Announcing the 2016 Southern Book Prize Winners". Southern Book Prize. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 2008 SIBA Book Award
  4. ↑ Steelman, Ben (2004, Jun 27). "Book marks; Edgerton Nabs SEBA Award for 'Piccadilly'". Star-News. ProQuest document ID 285439497. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.
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