Fiction awards given by Colorado Humanities to Colorado authors. This is the state where I grew up. I still love it and miss it. Bold titles are the ones I've read.
http://www.coloradohumanities.org/content/colorado-book-awards-history
2011 The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
2010 Postcards from a Dead Girl by Kirk Farber
2009 Spoon by Robert Greer
2008 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
2007 Migration Patterns: Stories by Gary Schanbacher
2006 The Pull of the Earth by Teague Bohlen
2005 Articles of War by Nick Arvin
2004 Eventide by Kent Haruf
2003 Land that Moves, Land that Stands Still by Kent Nelson
2002 This Side of the Sky by Elyse Singleton
2001 The Good Journey by Micaela Gilchrist
2000 Color of Law by David Milofsky
1999 The Crook Factory by Dan Simmons
1998 A Good Doctor's Son by Steven Schwartz
1997 MARI: A Novel by Jane Valentine Barker
1996 A Killing in Quail Country by Jameson Cole
1995 Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
1994 Lead Us Not into Penn Station by Bruce Ducker
1993 The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz by Manuel Ramos
1992 Booked to Die by John Dunning
1991 With the Snow Queen by Joanne Greenberg