The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library) has selected winners in seven categories for the 2025 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) for outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2024.

This is the 59th year of the program, formerly called the Governor’s Writers Awards.

Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Winner: • Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls of Seattle/Port Townsend (MCD)

Fiction Winner: • Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco of Seattle (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

General Nonfiction/Biography Winner: Be A Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo of Seattle (HarperOne)

Poetry Winner: • Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha of Redmond (The University of Akron Press)

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