Southern Book Prize

Southern Book Prize (formerly the SEBA Book Award[1] and SIBA Book Award[2]) is a literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA). It was 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, Nonfiction, poetry, cooking and children's literature. In 2016, the award was renamed the Southern Book Prize and awarded in honor of southern writer Pat Conroy, who died in March 2016.[2]

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.[3] Since 2019 candidates have been nominated by Southern indie booksellers before the ballot of finalists in three categories is voted on by bookstore customers. According to SIBA, 1800 ballots were cast to select the winners of the 2023 prize.[4]

Winners

Southern Book Prize
SIBA Book Award winners
Year Category Author Title Ref.
1999 Children Debra Frasier Out of the Ocean [1]
Fiction Tim Gautreaux The Next Step in the Dance [1]
Nonfiction Tony Horwitz Confederates in the Attic [1]
Poetry Andrew Glaze Someone Will Go On Owing [1]
2000 Children Ann Heiskell Rickey Bugs & Critters I Have Known
Fiction Fred Chappell Look Back All the Green Valley
Nonfiction Janisse Ray Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Poetry Rodney Jones Elegy for the Southern Drawl
2001 Children Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie
Fiction Tony Earley Jim the Boy
Nonfiction Rick Bragg Somebody Told Me
Poetry Peter Meinke Zinc Fingers
2002 Children J.J. Reneaux How Animals Saved the People
Fiction Doug Marlette The Bridge
Nonfiction Rick Bragg Ava’s Man
2003 Children Carl Hiaasen Hoot
Cookbook Sara Foster The Foster’s Market Cookbook
Fiction Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
Nonfiction Pat Conroy My Losing Season
Poetry Kathryn Stripling Byer Catching Light
2004 Children Melinda Long How I Became a Pirate [5]
Cookbook Edna Lewis The Gift of Southern Cooking [5]
Fiction Clyde Edgerton Lunch at the Piccadilly [5]
Nonfiction Deborah Ford The GRITS Guide to Life [5]
Poetry Fred Chappell (ed.) Locales [5]
2005 Children Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Peter and the Starcatchers
Cookbook Frank Stitt Frank Stitt’s Southern Table
Fiction Ron Rash Saints at the River
Nonfiction Celia Rivenbark We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier
Poetry Maurice Manning A Companion for Owls
2006 Children Nikki Giovanni (with Bryan Collier) Rosa [6]
Cookbook Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays Being Dead is No Excuse
Fiction Joshilyn Jackson Gods in Alabama
Nonfiction John Grogan Marley & Me
Poetry Darnell Arnoult What Travels with Us
2007 Children Watt Key Alabama Moon
Cookbook Amy Sedaris I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Fiction Charles Frazier Thirteen Moons
Nonfiction Charles J. Shields Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Poetry Susan Meyers Keep and Give Away
2008 Children Donna Bateman with Brian Lies (illus.) Deep in the Swamp
Cookbook Jean Anderson A Love Affair with Southern Cooking
Fiction Sarah Addison Allen Garden Spells
Nonfiction Barbara Kingsolver Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Poetry David Kirby The House On Boulevard Street
2009 Children Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery Two Bobbies
Cookbook Martha Hall Foose Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
Fiction Ron Rash Serena
Nonfiction Rick Bragg The Prince of Frogtown
Poetry Kevin Young Dear Darkness
Young Adult Kristin Cashore Graceling
2010 Children Hester Bass The Secret World of Walter Anderson
Cookbook Ted Lee and Matt Lee The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern
Fiction Kathryn Stockett The Help
Nonfiction Rick Bragg The Most They Ever Had
2011 Children Kathryn Erskine Mockingbird
Cookbook Gena Knox Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavors
Fiction Ron Rash Burning Bright
Nonfiction Jim Minick The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family
Poetry Janisse Ray A House of Branches
Young Adult Deborah Wiles Countdown
2012 Children Mary Quattlebaum Jo MacDonald Saw a Pond
Cookbook Sheri Castle The New Southern Garden Cookbook
Fiction John Hart Iron House
Nonfiction Robert Morgan Lions of the West
Poetry John Lane Abandoned Quarry
Young Adult A. J. Hartley Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
2013 Children William Joyce The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Cookbook Cheryl Day The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook
Fiction Wiley Cash A Land More Kind Than Home
Nonfiction Jay Erskine Leutze Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
Poetry Kathryn Stripling Byer Descent
Young Adult Sheila Turnage Three Times Lucky
2014 Children J. E. Thompson The Girl from Felony Bay
Cooking John Currence Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey: Recipes from My Three Favorite Food Groups and Then Some
Fiction Susan Crandall Whistling Past the Graveyard
Nonfiction Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Poetry Cathy Smith Bowers The Collected Poems of Cathy Smith Bowers
Young Adult Sarah Dessen The Moon and More
2015 Children Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming
Cooking Sean Brock Heritage
Fiction Sue Monk Kidd The Invention of Wings
Nonfiction Beth Macy Factory Man
Young Adult Alan Gratz with Brett Helquist (illus.) League of Seven

Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize
Southern Book Prize winners
Year Category Author Title Ref.
2016 Cookbook Alice Randall Soul Food Love [7][8]
Fiction M. O. Walsh My Sunshine Away [7][8]
History & Life Stories Steve Inskeep Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab [7][8]
Literary Ron Rash Above the Waterfall [7][8]
Mystery Brian Panowich Bull Mountain [7][8]
Nonfiction Richard Grant Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta [7][8]
Thriller Greg Isles The Bone Tree [7][8]
Young Adult David Arnold Mosquitoland [7][8]
Youngsters Robert Beatty Serafina and the Black Cloak [7][8]
2017 Biography, Autobiography & Memoir J. Drew Lanham The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature [9]
Cooking Vivian Howard Deep Run Roots: Stories & Recipes from My Corner of the South [9]
Creative Nonfiction J. D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis [9]
Fiction (Coming of Age) Ann Patchett Commonwealth [9]
Fiction (Family Life) Mary Alice Monroe A Lowcountry Christmas [9]
Fiction (Historical) Robert Morgan Chasing the North Star [9]
Fiction (Literary) Julia Franks Over the Plain Houses [9]
Juvenile Donna Gephart Lily and Dunkin [9]
Southern Stories & Stories by Southerners Fannie Flagg The Whole Town's Talking [9]
Thriller John Hart Redemption Road [9]
2018 Biography & History Coretta Scott King Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy [10]
Fiction (Literary) Wiley Cash The Last Ballad [10]
Fiction (Women & Family Gabrielle Zevin Young Jane Young [10]
Juvenile Fiction Renée Ahdieh Flame in the Mist [10]
Cassie Beasley Tumble & Blue [10]
Mystery, Thriller, Suspense J. C. Sasser Gradle Bird [10]
Nonfiction Michael Eric Dyson Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America [10]
Southern Fiction Lisa Wingate Before We Were Yours [10]
2019 Children's Jo Hackl Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe [11]
Fiction David Joy The Line that Held Us [11]
Nonfiction Rick Bragg The Best Cook in the World [11]
2020 Children's Roshani Chokshi The Gilded Wolves [12][13]
Fiction Jessica Handler The Magnetic Girl [12][13]
Nonfiction Cassandra King Conroy Tell Me a Story: My Life With Pat Conroy [12][13]
2021 Children's Derrick Barnes with Gordon C. James I Am Every Good Thing [14]
Fiction Carter Sickels The Prettiest Star [14][15]
Nonfiction Natasha Trethewey Memorial Drive [14]
2022 Children's Aliya King Neil with Charly Palmer (illus.) Keep Your Head Up [16][17]
Fiction Wiley Cash When Ghosts Come Home [16][17]
Nonfiction Margaret Renkl Graceland, At Last [16][17]
2023 Children's Antwan Eady with Gracey Zhang (illus.) Nigel and the Moon [18][19]
Fiction Silas House Lark Ascending [18][19]
Nonfiction Mary Laura Philpott Bomb Shelter [18][19]

References
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  2. "Celebrate Independents! Announcing the 2016 Southern Book Prize Winners". Southern Book Prize. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  3. 2008 SIBA Book Award
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  5. 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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  10. "Awards: SIBA's Southern Book; Branford Boase". Shelf Awareness. July 6, 2018. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
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  12. "Awards: Southern Book Prize; Klaus Flugge". Shelf Awareness. February 14, 2020. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
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  14. "Awards: Southern Book, Ripped Bodice Winners". Shelf Awareness. February 16, 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  15. "Carter Sickels' "The Prettiest Star" Wins 2021 Southern Book Prize!". Department Of English | Eastern Kentucky University. August 30, 2021. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
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