An anthology of Colorado writers and a study of the stuff created by man, by a former Denver Museum of Nature and Science archaeologist, are among the winners of the 2024 Colorado Book Awards. “So Much Stuff” is by Chip Colwell, whose bio on X declares him to be “owner of too much stuff,” is now editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, a digital magazine about anthropological thinking and discoveries. “Reading Colorado,” by Peter Andersen, “underscores the diversity and richness of the state and its writers,” , Sandra Dallas soon after the book was published in 2023.
The awards were presented by the Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book on June 21. A complete list of the winners: “Reading Colorado,” by Peter Anderson “Losing Music: A Memoir,” by John Cotter “So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything,” by Chip Colwell “To Die Beautiful,” by Buzzy Jackson “Women of the Colorado Gold Rush Era,” by J.v.
L. Bell and Jan Gunia “Blood Betrayal: A Detective Inaya Rahman Novel,” by Ausma Zehanat Khan “The Applicant,” by Nazli Koca “How You Walk Alone in the Dark,” by Erin Block “Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other,” by Bethany Turner “Dark Moon, Shallow Sea,” by David R. Slayton “Uranians: Stories,” by Theodore McCombs “No Child of Mine,” by Nichelle Giraldes “Lia & Luís: Puzzled!,” by Ana Crespo and Giovana Medeiros “Brave Bird at Wounded Knee: A Story of Protest on the Pine .
