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Berea College

No Perfect Mothers by Karen Spears Zacharias
Rednecks by Taylor Brown
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No Perfect Mothers and Rednecks

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<li>The Stone Catchers by Laura Leigh Morris</li>
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Finalists 

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<li>Kingfisher’s Blues by Erik Reece</li>
<li>The Rain had Nowhere to Go by William Woolfitt</li>
<li>Requiem for a Redbird by Torli Bush</li>
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What Good is Heaven 

Edited by Connie Banta, Kristin Devault-Juelfs, Destinee Harper, Katy Ryan, and Ellen Skirvin
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This Book is Free and Yours to Keep 

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<li>Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky, Edited by Melissa Helton</li>
<li>No Son of Mine by Jonathan Corcoran</li>
<li>Affrilachia Testimonies by Chris Aluka Berry, Kelly Elaine Navies, and Maia Surdam</li>
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Finalists

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<li>1970 – Ben A. Franklin of the New York Times for his series of articles on Appalachia</li>
<li>1971 – David H. Looff – Appalachia’s Children</li>
<li>1972 – Eliot Wigginton and students of Rabun Gap – Nacoochee School – The Foxfire Book</li>
<li>1973 – Barry Bingham, Jr., of the Louisville Courier – Journal for thorough, persistent and influential reporting on Appalachia.</li>
<li>1974 – No award given</li>
<li>1975 – Brian Woolley and Ford Reid – We Be Here When the Morning Comes</li>
<li>1976 – Kai T. Erikson – Everything in Its Path</li>
<li>1977 – Gurney Norman – Kinfolks</li>
<li>1977 – Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg – Our Appalachia</li>
<li>1978 – John W. Hevener – Which Side Are You On?</li>
<li>1978 – Henry D. Shapiro – Appalachia On Our Mind</li>
<li>1979 – Thomas J. Schoenbaum – The New River Controversy</li>
<li>1980 – John Gaventa – Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley</li>
<li>1981 – David Corbin – Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields</li>
<li>1982 – Ronald Eller – Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers</li>
<li>1983 – John Egerton – Generations</li>
<li>1984 – John Ehle – Last One Home</li>
<li>1985 – Eliot Wigginton – Sometimes a Shining Moment</li>
<li>1986 – Martin Cherniack – The Hawk’s Nest Incident</li>
<li>1987 – Denise Giardina – Storming Heaven</li>
<li>1987 – Rodger Cunningham – Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience</li>
<li>1988 – Lee Smith – Fair and Tender Ladies</li>
<li>1989 – John Inscoe – Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina</li>
<li>1990 – Helen Lewis and Susanna O’Donnell – Remembering Our Past, Building Our Future</li>
<li>1991 – Crandall A. Shifflett – Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960</li>
<li>1992 – Denise Giardina – The Unquiet Earth</li>
<li>1993 – No award given</li>
<li>1994 – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Colored People: A Memoir</li>
<li>1995 – Deborah Vansau McCauley – Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History</li>
<li>1996 – Wilma A. Dunaway – The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860</li>
<li>1997 – Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain</li>
<li>1998 – Homer Hickam, Jr. – Rocket Boys: A Memoir</li>
<li>1999 – Loyal Jones – Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands</li>
<li>2000 – Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee – The Road to Poverty: the Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia</li>
<li>2001 – John O’Brien – At Home in the Heart of Appalachia</li>
<li>2002 – John A. Williams – Appalachia</li>
<li>2003 – Non-Fiction – Wilma A. Dunaway – Slavery in the American Mountain South</li>
<li>2003 – Fiction and Poetry – Gretchen Moran Laskas – The Midwife’s Tale</li>
<li>2004 – Non-Fiction – Michael Montgomery – Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English</li>
<li>2004 – Fiction and Poetry – Ron Rash – Saints at the River</li>
<li>2005 – Non-Fiction – Sharon Hatfield – Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell</li>
<li>2005 – Fiction and Poetry – Darnell Arnoult – What Travels With Us: Poems</li>
<li>2006 – Non-Fiction – Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, Editors – The Encyclopedia of Appalachia</li>
<li>2006 – Fiction and Poetry – Dot Jackson, John F. Blair Publisher – Refuge</li>
<li>2007 – Non-Fiction – James J. Lorence – A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West</li>
<li>2007 – Fiction and Poetry – Ann Pancake – Strange as this Weather Has Been</li>
<li>2008 – Fiction and Poetry – Ron Rash, Serena</li>
<li>2008 – Nonfiction – Ronald D Eller, Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945.</li>
<li>2009 – Nonfiction – Chris Green, The Social Life of Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan)</li>
<li>2009 – Fiction and Poetry – C.E. Morgan, All the Living (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)</li>
<li>2010 – Nonfiction – Alessandro Portelli, They Say in Harlan County</li>
<li>2010 – Fiction – Amy Greene, Bloodroot</li>
<li>2010 – Poetry – Lisa J. Parker, this gone place</li>
<li>2011 – Nonfiction – Emily Satterwhite, Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1978</li>
<li>2011 – Fiction – Charles Frazier, Night Woods</li>
<li>2011 – Poetry – Jesse Graves, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine</li>
<li>2012 – Nonfiction – Kathryn Newfont, Blue Ridge Commons</li>
<li>2012 – Fiction – Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior</li>
<li>2012 – Poetry – Richard Hague, During the Recent Extinctions</li>
<li>2013 – Nonfiction – T.R.C Hutton, Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South</li>
<li>2013 – Fiction – Karen Spears Zacharias, Mother of Rain</li>
<li>2013 – Poetry – Ron Houchin, The Man Who Saws Us in Half</li>
<li>2014 – Nonfiction –  Susan Eike Spalding, Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities</li>
<li>2014 – Fiction – Marie Manilla, The Patron Saint of Ugly</li>
<li>2014 – Poetry – Jesse Graves, Basin Ghosts</li>
<li>2015 – Nonfiction – Chad Berry, Phillip J. Obermiller, and Shaunna L. Scott, Editors, Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking</li>
<li>2015 – Fiction – Robert Gipe, Trampoline</li>
<li>2015 – Poetry – Nickole Brown, Fanny Says</li>
<li>2016 – Nonfiction – Steven E. Nash, Reconstruction’s Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains</li>
<li>2016 – Fiction – Crystal Wilkinson, The Birds of Opulence</li>
<li>2016 – Poetry – Marc Harshman, Believe What You Can</li>
<li>2017  – Nonfiction – Carol Boggess, James Still: A Life </li>
<li>2017 – Fiction – Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad</li>
<li>2017  – Poetry – Pauletta Hansel, Palindrome</li>
<li>2018 – Nonfiction – Michael Clay Carey, The News Untold</li>
<li>2018 – Fiction – Silas House, Southernmost</li>
<li>2018 – Poetry – Sarah McCartt-Jackson, Stonelight</li>
<li>2019 – Nonfiction – Meredith McCarroll and Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning</li>
<li>2019 – Fiction – Michael Croley, Any Other Place</li>
<li>2019 – Poetry – Rose McLarney – Forage</li>
<li>2020 – Nonfiction – Eric Luke Lassiter, Brian A. Hoey, and Elizabeth Campbell, I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis</li>
<li>2020 – Fiction – Carter Sickels, The Prettiest Star</li>
<li>2020 – Poetry – Matthew Wimberley , All the Great Territories</li>
<li>2021 &#8211; Fiction: Jocelyn Johnson, My Monticello</li>
<li>2021 &#8211; Poetry: Marianne Worthington, The Girl Singer</li>
<li>2021 &#8211; Non-Fiction: William H. Turner, The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Lives in Appalachian Coal Towns</li>
<li>2022 &#8211; Fiction: Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead</li>
<li>2022 &#8211; Poetry: Annie Woodford, Where You Come From is Gone </li>
<li>2022 &#8211; Nonfiction: Luke Manget, Ginseng Diggers</li>
<li>2023 &#8211; Fiction: Monic Ductan, Daughters of Muscadine: Stories, </li>
<li>2023 &#8211; Poetry: Bill King, Bloodroot and Michael Garrigan, River, Amen</li>
<li>2023 &#8211; Nonfiction: Erica Abrams Locklear, Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food &amp; People</li>
<li>2024 &#8211; Fiction: Karen Spears Zacharias, No Perfect Mothers and Taylor Brown, Rednecks</li>
<li>2024 &#8211; Poetry: Raye Hendrix, What Good is Heaven</li>
<li>2024 &#8211; Nonfiction: Connie Banta, Kristin Devault-Juelfs, Destinee Harper, Katy Ryan, and Ellen Skirvin, This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project</li>
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Past Winners

The Weatherford Committee may create a special Weatherford Award to honor another work or body of work that makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of Appalachian people.
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<li>1972 – Robert Coles, M.D.</li>
<li>1973 – Wilma Dykeman</li>
<li>1975 – Jesse Stuart</li>
<li>1976 – Harry Caudill</li>
<li>1977 – James Still</li>
<li>1978 – Harriette Simpson Arnow</li>
<li>1979 – Cratis Williams</li>
<li>1985 – Albert Stewart – Certificate of Achievement</li>
<li>1988 – Alfred Perrin</li>
<li>1996 – Loyal Jones</li>
<li>1999 – Sidney Saylor Farr</li>
<li>1999 – Jerry W. Williamson</li>
<li>2015 – Jim Wayne Miller in recognition of Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader,  edited by Morris Allen Grubbs and Mary Ellen Miller</li>
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Winners of the Weatherford Award for Best Books About Appalachia