Winners of the 2019 Connecticut Book Awards

Poetry

Cortney Davis, Taking Care of Time | Wheelbarrow Press

Nonfiction

Andrew Kahrl, Free the Beaches | Yale University Press

Young Readers: Fiction

Susan Hood, Lifeboat 12 | Simon & Schuster

Young Readers: Nonfiction

Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean’s Top Predators | Lerner Publishing Group

Young Readers: Picture Book

Wendell Minor, Night Train, Night Train | Charlesbridge Publishing

Fiction

Amy Bloom, White Houses | Random House

The Bruce Fraser Spirit of Connecticut Award

Christopher Wigren, Connecticut Architecture, Stories of 100 Places | Wesleyan University Press