Awards won by Black Heron Press Authors

Judith Roche wins 2007 American Book Award for Wisdom of the Body

Judith Roche awarded Golden Umbrella for lifetime achievement

Dispatches From The Cold - San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE Award for Literature

In A Cold Open Field by Sheila Solomon Klass - Finalist, Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Newt by Ron Dakron - King County Arts Commission Publication Award for Fiction

Publishing Lives: Interviews with Independent Book Publishers In The Pacific
Northwest And British Columbia by Jerome Gold - Most Significant
Contribution, Bumbershoot Book Award   

Somebody by Laurie Blauner - King County Arts Commission Publication Award

The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri - Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction
2001

The Census Taker by Marilyn Stablein - King County Arts Commission Publication
Award

The Confession Of Jack Straw by Simone Zelitch - Hopwood Award for Major Fiction

The Fruit 'N Food by Leonard Chang - Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction
1996

The Master Of Fate by Gonzalo Munevar - Black Heron Press Award for Social
Fiction 1999

The Rat And The Rose by Arnold Rabin - Finalist, Small Press Book Award

The Remains Of River Names by Matt Briggs - King County Arts Commission
Publication Award

The Undesirables by Mary C. Smith - Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction
1997; selected by Booklist as one of the ten best science fiction novels of
the year

Congratulations to Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison for their garnering the
1999 American Book Award for First Fish: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific
(University of Washington Press). Judith is the author of Myrrh/My Life as a
Screamer, published by Black Heron Press