Priest Wins Endeavour

Dreadnought by Cherie Priest has won the 13th Endeavour Award. The finalists were:

• Dreadnought, Cherie Priest (Tor)
  
• A Cup of Normal, Devon Monk (Fairwood)
• The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia McKillip (Ace)
• Black Prism, Brent Weeks (Orbit US)
• Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs (Ace)

The Endeavour Award is given to a novel or single-author collection written by a Pacific Northwest writer and includes an honorarium of $1000.00 and an engraved glass plaque. The 2011 judges for the award are editor John Joseph Adams and writers Bud Sparhawk and Jo Walton. The winner was announced on November 11, 2011 at OryCon33 in Portland OR.