OLYMPIA — Tessa Hulls of Port Townsend won a 2025 Washington State Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction/Memoir category for “Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir.”
Administered by the Washington Center for the Book, the awards recognize outstanding work published by Washington authors during 2024.
Formerly known as the Governor’s Writers Awards, the award program is in its 59th year.
Winners in other categories include:
• Fiction: “Rough Trade” by Katrina Carrasco of Seattle.
• General Nonfiction/Biography: “Be A Revolution” by Ijeoma Oluo of Seattle.
• Poetry: “Something About Living” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha of Redmond.
• Picture Book: “Daughter of the Light-Footed People” by Belen Medina of Vancouver and Natalia Rojas Castro.
• Books for Young Readers: “Table Titans Club” by Scott Kurtz of Bothell.
• Young Adult Literature: “Looking for Smoke” by K.A. Cobell of Olympia.
Local finalists include “Polite Calamities” by Jennifer Gold of Port Townsend, in the fiction category; “The Scarecrow of My Former Self” by Sarah Stockton of Port Townsend, in the poetry category, and “Unhappy Camper” by Lily LaMotte, of Port Townsend, and Ann Xu, in the young readers category.
This year’s judges included Sarah Morrison, a librarian with the North Olympic Library System.
