Finalists for the 2019 High Plains Book Awards have been announced in 12 categories.
Congratulations to the following Alberta authors!
Beth Towe – Bert Riggall’s Greater Waterton – Fifth House Publishers – (for Art & Photography)
Trina Moyles – Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism and the Fight to Feed the World – (for First Book)
Dallas Hunt – AwÃsis and the World-Famous Bannock – (for Indigenous Writer)
And to Saskatchewan authors:
Marion Mutala – My Buddy, Dio – Children’s Book
Randy Lundy – Blackbird Song – Poetry
Joe M. Brown – Heavy – Poetry
James Trettwer – Thorn-Field – Short Stories
Ruth Chorney – Buried – Woman Writer
Counios & Gane – Wolfe in Shepherd’s Clothing: A Shepherd & Wolfe Mystery – Young Adult Book
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The 2019 High Plains Book Awards Finalists
Art & Photography
- Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West by Dr. Peter H. Hassrick et al, published by University of Oklahoma Press
- Bert Riggall’s Greater Waterton by Beth Towe, published by Fifth House Publishers
- An Honest, Genial and Kindly People by Adrian K Paton, self-published
- Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art From the Paul Dyck Collection by Emma I. Hansen, published by University of Oklahoma Press
Children’s Book
- Double! Not Half by Rodney Gottula, self-published
- My Buddy, Dido by Marion Mutala, published by Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing
- Prison Paws: Max’s Story by Donna Cochran, self-published
Creative Nonfiction
- Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Susan Devan Harness, published by University of Nebraska Press
- Petting Tigers: My Life as a Witness of Jehovah by Shelley Smith Jones, self-published
- Warblers and Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding by Sneed B. Collard III, published by Mountaineers Books
- West to Montana by Christine Wortman-Engren, published by Farcountry Press
Fiction
- A Death in Eden by Keith McCafferty, published by Penguin Random House
- The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson, published by HarperCollins
- Go Ask Fannie by Elisabeth Hyde, published by Penguin Random House
- The River by Starlight, by Ellen Notbohm, published by She Writes Press
First Book
- Double! Not Half by Rodney Gottula, self-published
- One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From The World At Large by Chris La Tray, published by Riverfeet Press
- Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism and the Fight to Feed the World by Trina Moyles, published by University of Regina Press
Indigenous Writer
- AwÃsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt, published by HighWater Press
- Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Susan Devan Harness, published by University of Nebraska Press
- One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From The World At Large by Chris La Tray, published by Riverfeet Press
Medicine & Science
- Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion’s Soul through Science and Story by Leslie Patten, self-published
- Psychedelic Revolutionaries: LSD and the Birth of Hallucinogenic Research by Patrick W. Barber, published by University of Regina Press
- Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen, published by Simon & Schuster
Nonfiction
- An African In Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor by Danell Jones, published by Hurst/Oxford University Press
- Buffalo Heartbeats Across the Plains: The Last Great Hunts and Saving the Buffalo by Francie M. Berg, published by Hettinger Dakota Buttes Visitors Council
- Wild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming’s Ungulates by Matthew J. Kauffman, published by Oregon State University Press
Poetry
- All That Held Us by Henrietta Goodman. published by BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Blackbird Song by Randy Lundy, published by University of Regina Press
- Heavy by Joy M. Brown, self-published
- View from True North by Sara Henning published by Southern Illinois University Press
Short Stories
- Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories by Thomas McGuane, published by Vintage Books
- Come West and See: Stories by Maxim Loskutoff, published by W. W. Norton & Company
- Thorn-Field by James Trettwer, published by Thistledown Press
Woman Writer
- Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Susan Devan Harness, published by University of Nebraska Press
- Buried by Ruth Chorney, self-published
- The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson, published by HarperCollins
Young Adult Book
- Bronte’s Thunder by Lucinda Stein, self-published
- Sadia by Colleen Nelson, published by Dundurn
- Wolfe in Shepherd’s Clothing: A Shepherd & Wolfe Mystery by Counios & Gane, published by Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing