Colorado Book Awards
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The Colorado Book Awards are awards presented annually to Colorado authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers who exemplify the best in their category in the state during a given year. Awards have been presented since 1991. The awards are given by the Colorado Center for the Book, itself a program of Colorado Humanities. Awards are selected by a group of judges who are themselves selected on the basis of interest and competence. The common criteria for each category are content, originality, and widespread appeal; each category also has additional criteria appropriate to that category.
Categories
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Mystery
Science fiction
Colorado & the West
Biography/Memoir
Advice
Collections/Anthology
Children
Young Adult
Further reading
Milofsky, David (2010-02-04). "Colorado Book Awards' odd nominating process". The Denver Post. Archived from the original on 2020-06-29. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
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