Southern Book Prize

Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (formerly the SEBA Book Award[1] and SIBA Book Award[2]) is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), first awarded in 1999.[1] Nominated books must be 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, non-fiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature.

The first awards were given in 1999.[3] From 1999 through 2007 winners were chosen by popular vote through an online voting mechanism.[3] Starting in 2008 winners were chosen from the list of finalists by a jury of SIBA booksellers, instead of by popular vote.[3] Beginning in 2016, the award was renamed the Southern Book Award and named on honor of southern writer Pat Conroy.[2]

Winners

SIBA Book Award

1999[1]

2000

  • Fiction: Look Back All the Green Valley, Fred Chappell
  • Nonfiction: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
  • Children: Bugs & Critters I Have Known, Ann Heiskell Rickey
  • Poetry: Elegy for the Southern Drawl, Rodney Jones

2001

2002

  • Fiction: The Bridge (2001 novel), Doug Marlette
  • Nonfiction: Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
  • Children: How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

2003

2004[4]

  • Fiction: Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton
  • Nonfiction: The GRITS Guide to Life, Deborah Ford
  • Children: How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long
  • Poetry: Locales, Fred Chappell (Editor)
  • Cookbook: The Gift of Southern Cooking, Edna Lewis

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

  • Fiction: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • Nonfiction: The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg
  • Children: The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass
  • Cookbook: The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern by Ted and Matt Lee

2011

2012

  • Fiction: Iron House by John Hart
  • Nonfiction: Lions of the West by Robert Morgan
  • Young Adult: Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact by A. J. Hartley
  • Children: Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond (Jo MacDonald Series) by Mary Quattlebaum
  • Poetry: Abandoned Quarry by John Lane
  • Cookbook: The New Southern Garden Cookbook by Sheri Castle

2013

2014

2015

Southern Book Prize

2016[2]

  • Fiction: My Sunshine Away by M. O. Walsh
  • Literary: Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
  • Mystery: Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
  • Thriller: The Bone Tree by Greg Isles
  • Cookbook: Soul Food Love by Alice Randall
  • Non-fiction: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant
  • History & Life Stories: Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
  • Young Adult: Mosquitoland by David Arnold
  • Youngsters: Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

2017

  • Fiction (Coming of Age): Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
  • Fiction (Family Life): A Lowcountry Christmas by Mary Alice Monroe
  • Fiction (Historical): Chasing the North Star by Robert Morgan
  • Fiction (Literary): Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks
  • Southern Stories & Stories by Southerners: The Whole Town's Talking by Fannie Flagg
  • Thriller: Redemption Road by John Hart
  • Juvenile: Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
  • Biography, Autobiography & Memoir: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
  • Cooking: Deep Run Roots: Stories & Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard
  • Creative Nonfiction: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

2018

  • Fiction (Women & Family: Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
  • Fiction (Literary): The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
  • Mystery/Thriller/Suspense: Gradle Bird by J. C. Sasser
  • Southern Fiction: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
  • Juvenile Fiction: Tumble & Blue by Cassie Beasley and Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh
  • Biography & History: Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
  • Non-fiction: Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

2019

  • Fiction: The Line that Held Us by David Joy
  • Children's: Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Hackl
  • Non-fiction: The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg

2020

  • Fiction: The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler
  • Children's: The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
  • Non-fiction: Tell Me a Story: My Life With Pat Conroy by Cassandra King Conroy

References
  1. Summer, Bob (1999). "SEBA presents first book awards." Publishers Weekly, 246(20), 24. 1 Color Photograph. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.
  2. "Celebrate Independents! Announcing the 2016 Southern Book Prize Winners". Southern Book Prize. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  3. 2008 SIBA Book Award
  4. Steelman, Ben (2004, Jun 27). "Book marks; Edgerton Nabs SEBA Award for 'Piccadilly'". Star-News. ProQuest document ID 285439497. Last accessed Oct. 8, 2012.
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