Year/Category

Winner

Finalists



2007

Fiction

 



Judith Bader Jones

Delta Pearls

 

Susan McBride, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club

Roderick Townley, The Constellation of Sylvie

2007

Nonfiction

Joe Miller

Cross-X: The Amazing Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School To Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education

Diane Eickhoff, Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights

Donald Hoffmann, Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda

2007

Poetry

 

Wayne Miller

Only the Senses Sleep

Walter Bargen, Remedies for Vertigo

John Jenkinson, Rebekah Orders Lasagna

2006

Fiction

 

Whitney Terrell

The King of Kings County

Thomas Fox Averill, Ordinary Genius

Diane Glancy, The Dance Partner

2006

Nonfiction

 

Candice Millard

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey

Jack Cashill, Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture

Hal Elliott Wert, Hoover the Fishing President: Portrait of the Private Man and His Life Outdoors

2006

Poetry

Kevin Prufer

Fallen from a Chariot

Diane Glancy, Rooms: New and Selected Poems

Richard Newman, Borrowed Towns

2005

Fiction

Richard Jennings

Scribble

Bob Keith Bonebrake, King of America : War Was Only Half the Battle

Wayne Johnson, The Devil You Know

2005

Nonfiction

William Tsutsui

Godzilla on My Mind:
Fifty Years of the King of Monsters

Shirley Christian, Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America’s Frontier

Harold Ivan Smith, Griefkeeping: Learning How Long Grief Lasts

2005

Poetry

Walter Bargen

The Feast

Jason Sommer, The Man Who Sleeps in My Office

2004

Fiction

Barbara Wright

Plain Language

Trudy Lewis, The Bones of Garbo: A Collection of Short Stories

Mary Troy, The Alibi Café and Other Stories

2004

Nonfiction

Elizabeth Dodd

Prospect: Journeys and Landscapes

David Nelson Duke, In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice

Michael Scheibach, Atomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945-1955

2004

Poetry

Albert Goldbarth

Combinations of the Universe

Rush Rankin, Bene-Dictions

Sherod Santos, The Perishing

William Trowbridge, The Complete Book of Kong

2003

Fiction

Frederick J. Chiaventone

Moon of Bitter Cold

Sara Gursick, The Seasons of Mae

Michelle Black, Solomon Spring

2003

Nonfiction

Gretchen Cassel Eick

Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-1972

Craig Miner, Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000

Pok Chi Lau, Dreams of the Golden Mountain

2003

Poetry

Kevin Prufer

The Finger Bone

Wyatt Townley, The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga

Warren Lane Molton, If God Is: A Poetic Search for God Within