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Violet Crown Award

Teddy Children's Book Award

Manuscript Contest

Mozelle Memoir Contest

College Horror Short Story Contest

Storytelling Contest

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Violet Crown Book Award: 2003 Winners

The 2005 winners were announced at a reception honoring finalists and their families October 29, 2007 in a ceremony at the Governor's Mansion, Austin, Texas.

Fiction

Winner


Amanda Eyre Ward

Sleep Toward Heaven

Finalists

Sharon Wyse

The Box Children

Geoffrey Leavenworth

Isle of Misfortune


Nonfiction

Winner


George Arnold

Growing Up Simple . . . in Texas: An Irreverent Look at Kids in the 1950s

Finalists

Don Graham

Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

Bill Minutaglio

City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devasted a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle

Literary Prose and Poetry

Winner

Miles Wilson

Harm

Finalists

Frances Nail

I Am Not the Woman I Was

 

Jesús Gardea, translated by Robert L. Giron

Songs for a Single String

 

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