Colorado Book Awards name Scorched Skies and This Is My Body genre winners

E.J. Mellow won the science fiction and fantasy category, while Lindsay King-Miller took mystery, thriller and horror.

The 2026 Colorado Book Awards have named E.J. Mellow's Scorched Skies the science fiction and fantasy winner and Lindsay King-Miller's This Is My Body the mystery, thriller and horror winner. Colorado Humanities posted the results after the September 26 ceremony in Denver, which recognised books published in 2025. The

fantasy shortlist also included Kendra Merritt's Godwaker , published by Blue Fyre Press, and David Slayton's Redneck Revenant . In mystery, thriller and horror, the other finalists were Stephen Graham Jones's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and Cam Torrens's HAVOC: Trouble on the Trail . The awards page lists the winning

titles and their publishers, Montlake and Quirk Books respectively. The organiser's winners and finalists list is the source for the categories and results. Headline image: Scorched Skies cover displayed by Colorado Humanities; Montlake. Additional linked image: This Is My Body cover displayed by Colorado Humanities;

Quirk Books. Official awards-page book artwork.

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