High Plains Book Awards – 2018 Winners

The winners were announced at the High Plains Book Awards banquet, held October 20, 2018 in Billings, Montana. The High Plains Book Awards have been established to recognize regional authors and/or literary works that examine and reflect life on the High Plains including the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

And the winners are…

Art & Photography: Theodore Waddell: My Montana by Rick Newby published by The Drumlummon Institute

Children’s Book: What I Saw in Glacier: A Kid’s Guide to the National Park by Ellen Horowitz published by Riverbend Publishing.

Creative Nonfiction: A Darkness Lit by Heroes: The Granite Mountain- Speculator Mine Disaster of 1917 by Doug Ammons published by Water Nymph Press.

Fiction: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry published by Viking Books.

First Book: Bad Kansas by Becky Mandelbaum published by The University of Georgia Press.

Indigenous Writer: Strangers: Book 1, The Reckoner Trilogy by David A. Robertson published by HighWater Press

Medicine & Science: The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands by Chris Turner published by Simon & Schuster Canada

Nonfiction: Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon by John Clayton published by Pegasus Books.

Poetry: Throwing the Diamond Hitch by Emily Ursuliak published by The University of Calgary Press

Short Stories: Maple & Lead by Aaron Parrett published by Territorial Press

Woman Writer: The Last Chance Ladies’ Book Club by Marlis Wesseler published by Signature Editions.

Young Adult: Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival by Matthew P. Mayo published by Five Star Publishing