Congratulations to the 2008 Award Winners and Finalists!

FICTION WINNER:

Matthew Eck of Kansas City , MO for The Farther Shore

 FICTION FINALISTS:

R. M. Kinder of Warrensburg , MO for An Absolute Gentleman
Morley Swingle of Cape Girardeau , MO for Bootheel Man

NONFICTION WINNER:

Milton S. Katz of Overland Park , KS for Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer

NONFICTION FINALISTS:

Michael L. Johnson of Lawrence , KS for Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West          
R. Alton Lee of Manhattan , KS for From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health

POETRY WINNER:

Diane Glancy of Prairie Village , KS for Asylum in the Grasslands

POETRY FINALISTS:

Walter Bargen of Ashland , MO for West of West
John Gallaher of Maryville , MO for The Little Book of Guesses

DISTINGUISHED JUDGES FOR 2008:
  Lan Samantha Chang, Fiction
  Jeff Guinn, Nonfiction
  Ted Kooser, Poetry