Weatherford Award Winners

The Weatherford Awards are given by Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association annually. Weatherford Awards honor books that “best illumina ...more

Winners

	Southernmost by Silas House (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 7,003 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fanny Says by Nickole Brown (Goodreads Author) 4.58 avg rating — 185 ratings Weatherford Award for Poetry (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel by Robert Gipe 4.20 avg rating — 552 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking by Chad Berry (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Basin Ghosts: Poems by Jesse Graves (Goodreads Author) 4.76 avg rating — 37 ratings Weatherford Award for Poetry (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities by Susan Eike Spalding 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patron Saint Of Ugly by Marie Manilla (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 813 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Saws Us in Half by Ron Houchin 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings Weatherford Award for Poetry (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South by T.R.C. Hutton 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother of Rain by Karen Spears Zacharias (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 182 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	During the Recent Extinctions by Richard Hague really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina by Kathryn Newfont 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver 3.80 avg rating — 90,449 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine by Jesse Graves (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 53 ratings Weatherford Award for Poetry (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightwoods by Charles Frazier 3.64 avg rating — 13,526 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 by Emily Satterwhite 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Gone Place by parker-lisa-j 4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings Weatherford Award for Poetry (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloodroot by Amy Greene (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 8,070 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (Oxford Oral History Series) by Alessandro Portelli 4.22 avg rating — 133 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Living by C.E. Morgan 3.61 avg rating — 1,675 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism by Chris Green 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945 by Ronald D. Eller 4.02 avg rating — 158 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Serena by Ron Rash (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 35,270 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake 3.87 avg rating — 1,308 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West by James J. Lorence 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Refuge by Dot Jackson 4.27 avg rating — 4,049 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Encyclopedia of Appalachia by Rudy Abramson (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Travels With Us: Poems by Darnell Arnoult (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell by Sharon Hatfield (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings Weatherford Award for Nonfiction (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saints at the River by Ron Rash (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 4,113 ratings Weatherford Award for Fiction and Poetry (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars