Gerald Haslam - Literary Awards

Literary Awards

• 2006 Josephine Miles Award (from PEN Oakland) for Haslam's Valley
• 2005 Delbert and Edith Wylder Award (from the Western Literature Association)
• 2004 Certificate of Commendation (from the California Arts Council)
• 2001 Western States Book Award (fiction) for Straight White Male
• 2001 Silver Medal (from FOREWORD magazine) for Straight White Male
• 2001 Carey McWilliams Award (from the California Studies Association)
• 2001 Certificate of Commendation (from American Association for State and Local History) for Workin' Man Blues
• 2000 Ralph J. Gleason Award (from Rolling Stone, BMI and NYU) for Workin' Man Blues
• 1999 Distinguished Achievement Award (from the Western Literature Association)
• 1994 Commonwealth Club Silver Medal for The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland
• 1994 Award of Merit (from American Association for State and Local History) for The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland
• 1994 Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland
• 1993 Benjamin Franklin Award (from Publishers' Marketing Association) for Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State
• 1990 Josephine Miles Award (from PEN Oakland) for That Constant Coyote
• 1989 Creative Writing Fellowship (from the California Arts Council)
• 1988 Honorable Mention, SPUR Short Fiction Award (from Western Writers of America) for "The Estero"
• 1985 Bernard Ashton Raborg Award (from AMELIA magazine) for "William Saroyan and the Critics"
• 1983 Special Mention, Pushcart Prize (for "The Man Who Cultivated Fire")
• 1971 Honorable Mention, Joseph Henry Jackson Award (for "Okies")
• 1969 Arizona Quarterly Award (for "The Subtle Thread")