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2018 Washington State Book Awards

Greeting the authors
Sheri Boggs WSBA Youth Judge
Last minute preparations
The auditorium was overflowing.
Tom Fay of Director of Library Programs and Services at The Seattle Public Library
Karen Finneyfrock, Emcee extraordinaire
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha author of Water & Salt, winner for Poetry.
Claudia Rowe author of The Spider and the Fly, winner for Biography/Memoir.
Lyanda Lynn Haupt author of Mozart’s Starling, winnerfor Non-Fiction award.
Laurie Frankel, author of This Is How It Always Is , winner for Fiction.
The Washington 129 poets who attended the ceremony.
Accepting the special "Washington Voices" Award for WA 129 from Cindy Aden
Stephanie Oakes author of The Arsonist winner of Books for Young Adult Readers
J. Anderson Coats author of The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming, winner of Books for Middle Grade Readers
Asia Citro author of Zoey and Sassafras: Dragons and Marshmallows. winner of Books for Young Readers
Curtis Manley, author of Shawn Loves Sharks, winner of Picture Books
The 2018 WSBA Finalists and Winners
Matthew D. Hunt and Laura Anne Gilman
Kristin Jarvis Adams, Elise Hooper and Laurie Frankel
The University Bookstore was hopping!
L-R Children's book authors Michaele Razi, Curtis Manley, Corinna Luyken, Laura McGee Kvasnosky and Dori Hillestad Butler
Ben Clanton 2017 Books for Young Readers winner.
L-R Suzanne Selfors, Laura Moe, Carolyn Wright
Kelly Evart and Paul Hanson, current and former WSBA judges and owners of Village Books in Bellingham, WA, speaking with Garth Stein

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