YEAR /
Category |
Winner |
Finalists |
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 |
