Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2020
I speak for the entire panel when I say that everyone recognized that each book on the Short List was unique and had great merit. I can attest to the difficulty of distinguishing the ‘best’ among these books. I wish to thank the Distinguished Books Award Panelists — Beverly Acuff Momoi, Patricia Machmiller, Scott Mason, Victor Ortiz and Michael Rehling — for their diligence, expertise and effort. The Awarded and Honored Books reflect the panel’s assessment of the most noteworthy offerings from this year’s highly distinguished field.
We extend our congratulations to the following authors and publishers (books are arranged in alphabetical order by author):
Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Winners for 2020
Antolin, Susan. The Years That Went Missing (Durham NC: Backbone Press, 2020).
m., paul. witness tree (Omskirk UK: Snapshot Press, 2020).
Nyitrai, Réka. While Dreaming Your Dreams (Valencia Spain: Mono Ya Mono Books, 2020).
Honorable Mentions
Ashraf, Hifsa. Her Fading Henna Tattoo (Wilmington DE: Human/Kind Press, 2020).
Gurga, Lee. Without Syntax (White Heath IL: Modern Haiku Press, 2020).
Kadric, Elmedin. light packing (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
Kelly, David J. Small Hadron Divider (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award 2020 Shortlist
Antolin, Susan. The Years That Went Missing (Durham NC: Backbone Press, 2020).
Ashraf, Hifsa. Her Fading Henna Tattoo (Wilmington DE: Human/Kind Press, 2020).
Bridges Alan S. in the curves (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
Codrescu, Ion. The Wanderer Brush (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
Fabre, Gilles. Along the Way: A Search for the Spirit of the World (Uxbridge UK: Alba Publishing, 2020).
French, Terri L. Fully Human (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020).
Gurga, Lee. Without Syntax (White Heath IL: Modern Haiku Press, 2020).
Gurga, Lee and Metz, Scott. Haiku 2020 (White Heath IL: Modern Haiku Press, 2020).
Hall, Carolyn. cricket dusk (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
Kadric, Elmedin. light packing (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
Kelly, David J. Small Hadron Divider (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
m., paul. witness tree (Omskirk UK: Snapshot Press, 2020).
Nyitrai, Réka. While Dreaming Your Dreams (Valencia Spain: Mono Ya Mono Books, 2020).
Owen, Renee. This One Life (Durham NC: Backbone Press, 2020).
Polette, Keith. pilgrimage (Winchester VA: Red Moon Press, 2020).
Purington, Carol. Farm Song (Colrain MA: Winfred Press, 2020).
Strange, Debbie. Prairie Interlude (Omskirk UK: Snapshot Press, 2020).
Bruce H. Feingold
Chair, Touchstone Awards Committee
The Haiku Foundation
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Congratulations all poets , it’s a pleasure to read you all 👍❣️
Congratulations to all shortlisted authors and those with further accolades. Effusive thanks to the judges for their tireless work in whittling down the 72 collections to the short list and the subsequent awards. If any shortlisted authors are interested in a book swap, please get in touch.
Congratulations to all poets.
Mubarak (Congratulations) to all. A great honour for me to see my name alongside some great haiku writers.
Thank you so much esteemed judges and Touchstone Distinguished Books awards management team.
Huge congrats to the Winners, Honourable Mentions, and Shortlisted authors, an amazing year!
Alan Summers
founder, Call of the Page
Congratulations to all!
A wonderful selection of worthy winners. Congratulations to all!