{"id":117782,"date":"2025-08-04T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117782\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:56:22","slug":"play-of-shadows-13-other-works-win-at-the-colorado-book-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117782\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Play of Shadows,&#8217; 13 other works win at the Colorado Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a0follow-up to the much-lauded novel \u201cThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle\u201d and a collection of essays, stories and poems by writers from Four Corners area are among the titles singled out at the Colorado Book Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The prizes, awarded last weekend at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, were announced following a keynote address by Ryan Warner, senior host of Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio. They are sponsored by Colorado Humanities &amp; Center for the Book.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"893\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754297782_864_TDP-Z-FE26FOURCORNERS-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2014890\" \/>\u201cFour Corners Voices,\u201d edited by Chuck Greaves, Lisa C. Taylor and Mark Stevens (Four Corners Writers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthology:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cFour Corners Voices,\u201d edited by Chuck Greaves, Lisa C. Taylor and Mark Stevens<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creative Nonfiction: <\/strong>\u201cThe Afterlife Is Letting Go,\u201d by Brandon Shimoda<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Nonfiction: <\/strong>\u201cWelcome the Wretched: In Defense of the \u2018Criminal Alien,\u2019 by\u00a0C\u00e9sar Cuauht\u00e9moc Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guidance and Exploration: <\/strong>\u201cLand of Ice: Jaunts into Colorado\u2019s Glacial Landscape,\u201d by\u00a0Dr. Vincent Matthews III and Dr. James P. McCalpin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Historical Fiction: <\/strong>\u201cAll Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth,\u201d by Joel H. Morris<\/p>\n<p><strong>History: <\/strong>\u201cShopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America,\u201d by Rachel S. Gross<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystery: <\/strong>\u201cPlay of Shadows,\u201d by\u00a0Barbara Nickless<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novel: <\/strong>\u201cFamiliaris,\u201d by David Wroblewski (the novel was selected for Oprah\u2019s Book Club in 2024)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry: <\/strong>\u201cFishWife,\u201d by\u00a0Alysse Kathleen McCanna<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romance:<\/strong> \u201cForbidden in the Falls,\u201d by\u00a0J.E. Birk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science Fiction\/Fantasy:<\/strong> \u201cTransference,\u201d by Ian Patterson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thriller:<\/strong> \u201cAnyone but Her,\u201d by\u00a0Cynthia Swanson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children\u2019s Literature:<\/strong> \u201cThe Wire Zoo: How Elizabeth Berrien Learned to Turn Wire into Amazing Art,\u201d by\u00a0Natasha Wing and Joanie Stone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Young Adult Literature: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ll Be Waiting for You,\u201d by Mariko Turk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM MDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u00a0follow-up to the much-lauded novel \u201cThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle\u201d and a collection of essays, stories and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,4439,9577,171,1370,50,1072,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-117782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-things-to-do","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114969666104436413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}