Southern Book Prize
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Southern Book Prize (formerly the SEBA Book Award [1] SIBA Book Award [2] literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA). It was first awarded in 1999.[1] 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 , Nonfiction , poetry , cooking and children's literature . In 2016, the award was renamed the Southern Book Prize and awarded in honor of southern writer Pat Conroy , who died in March 2016.[2]
The first awards were given in 1999.[3] [3] [3] [4]
Contents
Winners
Southern Book Prize
SIBA Book Award winners Year Category Author Title Ref. 1999 Children Out of the Ocean [1] Fiction The Next Step in the Dance [1] Nonfiction Confederates in the Attic [1] Poetry Someone Will Go On Owing [1] 2000 Children Bugs & Critters I Have Known Fiction Look Back All the Green Valley Nonfiction Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Poetry Elegy for the Southern Drawl 2001 Children Because of Winn-Dixie Fiction Jim the Boy Nonfiction Somebody Told Me Poetry Zinc Fingers 2002 Children How Animals Saved the People Fiction The Bridge Nonfiction Ava’s Man 2003 Children Hoot Cookbook The Foster’s Market Cookbook Fiction The Secret Life of Bees Nonfiction My Losing Season Poetry Catching Light 2004 Children How I Became a Pirate [5] Cookbook The Gift of Southern Cooking [5] Fiction Lunch at the Piccadilly [5] Nonfiction The GRITS Guide to Life [5] Poetry (ed.) Locales [5] 2005 Children and Ridley Pearson Peter and the Starcatchers Cookbook Frank Stitt’s Southern Table Fiction Saints at the River Nonfiction We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier Poetry A Companion for Owls 2006 Children (with Bryan Collier ) Rosa [6] Cookbook and Charlotte Hays Being Dead is No Excuse Fiction Gods in Alabama Nonfiction Marley & Me Poetry What Travels with Us 2007 Children Alabama Moon Cookbook I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence Fiction Thirteen Moons Nonfiction Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Poetry Keep and Give Away 2008 Children with Brian Lies (illus.) Deep in the Swamp Cookbook A Love Affair with Southern Cooking Fiction Garden Spells Nonfiction Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Poetry The House On Boulevard Street 2009 Children and Mary Nethery Two Bobbies Cookbook Screen Doors and Sweet Tea Fiction Serena Nonfiction The Prince of Frogtown Poetry Dear Darkness Young Adult Graceling 2010 Children The Secret World of Walter Anderson Cookbook and Matt Lee The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern Fiction The Help Nonfiction The Most They Ever Had 2011 Children Mockingbird Cookbook Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavors Fiction Burning Bright Nonfiction The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family Poetry A House of Branches Young Adult Countdown 2012 Children Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond Cookbook The New Southern Garden Cookbook Fiction Iron House Nonfiction Lions of the West Poetry Abandoned Quarry Young Adult Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact 2013 Children The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Cookbook The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook Fiction A Land More Kind Than Home Nonfiction Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail Poetry Descent Young Adult Three Times Lucky 2014 Children The Girl from Felony Bay Cooking Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey: Recipes from My Three Favorite Food Groups and Then Some Fiction Whistling Past the Graveyard Nonfiction Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Poetry The Collected Poems of Cathy Smith Bowers Young Adult The Moon and More 2015 Children Brown Girl Dreaming Cooking Heritage Fiction The Invention of Wings Nonfiction Factory Man Young Adult with Brett Helquist (illus.) League of Seven
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize
References
^ Summer, Bob (1999). "SEBA presents first book awards." Publishers Weekly ^ "Celebrate Independents! Announcing the 2016 Southern Book Prize Winners" . Southern Book Prize. Retrieved April 28, 2017.^ 2008 SIBA Book Award ^ "Announcing the 2023 Southern Book Prize Winners" . The Southern Bookseller Review . Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA). Retrieved June 6, 2023.^ Steelman, Ben (2004, Jun 27). "Book marks; Edgerton Nabs SEBA Award for 'Piccadilly'". Star-News . ProQuest document ID 285439497. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012. ^ "SIBA Book Awards: Best of the South" . Shelf Awareness ^ "Awards: Pat Conroy Southern Book Winners" . Shelf Awareness ^ "2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize" . SQUARE BOOKS . Retrieved 2023-01-24.^ "Awards: SIBA's Southern Book; Caine Prize" . Shelf Awareness ^ "Awards: SIBA's Southern Book; Branford Boase" . Shelf Awareness ^ "Awards: Southern Book Prize; London Book Fair Bookstore of the Year" . Shelf Awareness ^ "Awards: Southern Book Prize; Klaus Flugge" . Shelf Awareness ^ "2020 Southern Book Prize Winners" . Quail Ridge Books . Retrieved 2023-01-24.^ "Awards: Southern Book, Ripped Bodice Winners" . Shelf Awareness ^ "Carter Sickels' "The Prettiest Star" Wins 2021 Southern Book Prize!" . Department Of English | Eastern Kentucky University . August 30, 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-24.^ "Awards: Southern Book, PROSE Excellence, R.R. Hawkins Winners" . Shelf Awareness ^ "2022 Southern Book Prize Winners!" . Cavalier House Books . Retrieved 2023-01-24.^ "Awards: Southern Book Winner; Wingate Literary Shortlist" . Shelf Awareness ^ "Booksellers' Guide to the Southern Book Prize" . Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance . Retrieved 2023-06-06.^ "2024 Southern Book Prize Winners - Southern Indie Booksellers Alliance" . sibaweb.com . Archived 2025-01-19 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-05-23.^ "2025 Southern Book Prize Winners" . SIBA External links