Joyce Goldenstern (In Their Ruin) won the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction for 2024
Congratulations to Bryan Sears. His artwork and jacket design for No Common War was a finalist for the Da Vinci Eye Award for 2020
Congratulations to Jerome Gold. His book, Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility (Seven Stories Press) was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal for 2020
You’ve Got Something Coming by Jonathan Starke won the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction for 2020
The Drum Tower by Farnoosh Moshiri Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction 2014; shortlisted for the Chautauqua Prize 2015
In the Spider’s Web by Jerome Gold winner, Silver Award, Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year 2016
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
Mantids by Ron Dakron – Finalist, Forward Magazine 2008 Book of the Year
Publishing Lives: Interviews with Independent Book Publishers In The Pacific Northwest And British Columbia – 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 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 ofthe 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
