Ellery Akers Awards
Poetry Awards
2015 San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award
2015 Independent Publishers Award, Silver Poetry Medal
2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize
2011 Poetry International Prize
1996 Paumanok Poetry Award
1992 Marin Arts Council Grant
1985 Gordon Barber Award
1984 and 1980, John Masefield Award
1974 Academy of American Poets Award
Children's Book Awards
2010 NAPPA Award
2010 Mom's Choice (Gold) Award
2009 Skipping Stones Magazine Award
Non-Fiction Awards
1990 Nature Writing Award, Sierra Magazine
Books
by Ellery Akers
Practicing the Truth
by Ellery Akers
Sarah’s Waterfall
by Ellery Akers
illustration: Angelique Benicio
Knocking on the Earth
by Ellery Akers
Best Books of the Year, San Jose
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