- Leyna Krow from Spokane won the State Book Award for fiction with her book Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids in the 2026 Washington Center for the Book contest.
A Spokane author is the winner of the State Book Award for fiction.
Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids by Leyna Krow took the award in the Washington Center for the Book’s 2026 contest, among seven categories. The 2026 Washington State Book Awards (WSBA) recognizes outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2025.
The awards are given based on the strength of the publication’s literary merit, lasting importance and overall quality to an author who is a current resident of Washington state, the center says. For the 2026 book awards, judges read and evaluated 308 books…