Literary Awards Earned by Sam Staley

Florida Writer's Association

• First Place, Published Historical Fiction, Tortuga Bay (2016)
• Second Place, Published Mainstream/Literary Fiction
  • St. Nic, Inc. (2015)
  • Toruga Bay (2016)
• Second Place, Published Young Adult/New Adult, Tortuga Bay (2016)

Florida Author's and Publishers Association (FAPA)

• Gold, Business, The Beatles & Economics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Making of a Cultural Revolution (2020)
• Gold, Adult Nonfiction, Unsafe on Any Campus? (2017)
• Gold, Political/Current Events, Unsafe On Any Campus? (2017)
• Gold, Young Adult: Fiction, Tortuga Bay (2016)
• Gold, Young Adult: Romance/Coming of Age/New Adult, Tortuga Bay (2016)
• Silver, Historical Fiction, Calusa Spirits (2018)

• Category Finalist, Tortuga Bay

• First Place, Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities (Transaction Books)

Tallahassee Writers Association

• Second Place, Children's Chapter Book, Renegade: Path of the Warrior 2 (2012)