OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington Center for the Book released the names of seven winners for the 2025 Washington State Book Awards for “outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2024.”
The winners in each of the seven categories are:
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) Picture Books Winner: Daughter of the Light-Footed People by Belen Medina of Vancouver and Natalia Rojas Castro (Atheneum – Simon & Schuster) Books for Young Readers Winner: Table Titans Club by Scott Kurtz of Bothell (Holiday House Publishing) Young Adult Literature Winner: Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell of Olympia (Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
For the complete list of finalists, check out the list released by the Library of Congress Washington Center for the Book.
The program is in its 59th year and was formerly called the Governor’s Writers Awards.
