The 34th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards will be held on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at the Embassy Suites, 741 N. Phillips Avenue, Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma Center for the Book is honoring author Sheldon Russell with the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.
Winners in the following categories will be announced at the ceremony:
All finalists listed below.
Did you know you can meet the finalists, purchase their books and have them signed, all at the Oklahoma Book Awards on April 22? Buy a ticket to the ceremony and enjoy the banquet. You can be part of this special event, support Oklahoma authors, and be the first to find out the winners. It's like the Oscars of the Oklahoma literary scene.
Or fill out this ONLINE FORM to reserve your ticket.
Tickets start at $75 for members of the Friends of the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
$100 for non-members. Go with a group of bookish friends — table of 8 for only $550.
Children / Young Adult
Poopsie Gets Lost
by Hannah E. Harrison
Penguin Random House
Baa, Baa, Tap Sheep
by Kenda Henthorn
Sleeping Bear Press
Do You Hear What I Hear?
by Helen Dunlap Newton
Yorkshire Publishing
Lovebird Lou
by Tammi Sauer
Sterling Publishing Company
Mary Had a Little Plan
by Tammi Sauer
Sterling Publishing Company
Three Strike Summer
by Skyler Schrempp
Simon & Schuster
Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story
by Nikki Shannon Smith
Capstone Publishing
Bobby: A Story of Robert F. Kennedy
by Deborah Wiles and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Scholastic Press
Design / Illustration / Photography
Memory Keepers: Life Stories of Choctaw People
photography by Judy Allen, Deidre Elrod and Christian Toews; designed by Kevin Wingfield
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Capital City: History of Tishomingo
designed by Gentry Chapman, Skip McKinstry, and Wiley Barnes
Chickasaw Press
Poopsie Gets Lost
illustrated by Hannah E. Harrison
Penguin Random House
Atherton: A Legacy of Family Values
designed by Laura Hyde
Müllerhaus Legacy
The Smallest Hint: Photographs and Poems
photographs by David Jennings
Yorkshire Publishing
Save-It-Forward-Suppers: A Simple Strategy to Save Time, Money, and Sanity
illustrated by Jeannine Bulleigh
HarperCollins Publishers
Fiction
Prize for the Fire
by Rilla Askew
University of Oklahoma Press
Red Rain
by Lara Bernhardt
Admission Press
Plot Counterplot
by William Bernhardt
Babylon Books
No Church, No Preacher
by Freda Haack Collier
Ronald V. Collier Publisher
The Physicists’ Daughter
by Mary Anna Evans
Sourcebooks
Hardly Any Shooting Stars Left
by B.K. Froman
Iron Stream Media
For Those Who Are Lost
by Julia Bryan Thomas
Sourcebooks
Fierce Poison: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel
by Will Thomas
St. Martin’s Publishing Group
Non-Fiction
Raven and the Hummingbird: A Healing Path to Recovery from Multiple Personality Disorder
by Renate F. Caldwell
M & M Publishing
Children of White Thunder: Legacy of a Cheyenne Family 1830-2020
by Dee Cordry
Harry D. Cordry Jr. Publisher
The Land and the Days: A Memoir of Family, Friendship, and Grief
by Tracy Daugherty
University of Oklahoma Press
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
by Caleb Gayle
Penguin Random House
A Place to Stand
by Samuel Hall
Reify Press
Gore & Owen: Oklahoma’s First Two U.S. Senators
by Robert Henry and Bob Burke
Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing
A Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
by David Maraniss
Simon & Schuster
Throwaway Kids: Reforming Oklahoma’s Juvenile Justice System
by Terry Smith and Bob Burke
Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing
I Can See for Miles: Overcoming the Past and Running to My Future
by Hollie Stuart
Marathon Publishing Company
Poetry
Who Do You Think You Are?
by Mary B. Gray
Turning Plow Press
Level Land: Poems For and About the I35 Corridor
co-edited by Crag Hill and Todd Fuller
Lamar University Literary Press
Cream Lines: Words Risen to Poetry
by Karen Kay Knauss
Peach Tree Press
The Collected Poems of Josie Craig Berry
edited and introduction by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
Mongrel Empire Press
The Family Book of Martyrs
by Benjamin Myers
Lamar University Literary Press
Questions? Go to oklahoma.gov/libraries/book-awards.
Or contact Connie Armstrong at connie.armstrong@libraries.ok.gov or call 405-522-3383.
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