24th annual Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards
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Kirby Ballroom, University of Minnesota Duluth 1049 University Dr., Duluth, Minnesota 55812
The 24th annual Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA) will be presented Thursday, May 17, in the University of Minnesota Duluth's Kirby Ballroom. Forty-seven titles are competing for prizes in six categories: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, memoir and creative nonfiction, children's literature, and art / photography. The prizes include $200 for the winner in each category, with glass plaques and 150 NEMBA book seals going to winners and authors whose books are chosen for honorable mention. The event begins with a book fair and refreshments at 5 p.m., followed by suspense novelist Brian Freeman as featured speaker at 6:30 p.m. Barton Sutter, Duluth’s first poet laureate, will emcee the presentation of awards. The event is free and open to the public. NEMBA is presented by the UMD Library in collaboration with Friends of the Duluth Public Library and Lake Superior Writers. The 24th annual NEMBA awards will honor books published in 2011 that capture the spirit of the Northland and substantially represent northeastern Minnesota. For more information, call 218-726-7889 or visit the NEMBA web page: http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/nemba/index.htm.