Nominations for the sixteenth annual High Plains Book Awards are now open through March 11, 2022. For more information and to nominate a book, please click here.
Nominated books must have been published for the first time in 2021. Winners for all Book Awards will be announced at an Awards event held in October 2022 in Billings, Montana. Each Book Award winner will receive a $500 award and commemorative plaque.
The initial reading of nominated titles is completed with the assistance of our community readers, who provide the initial evaluation of the books.
Learn MoreBrowse through previous High Plains Book Award winners, going back to 2007.
View ListBrowse through all prior finalists for the High Plains Book Awards, starting in 2007.
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The Billings Public Library Board has established the High Plains Book Awards to recognize regional literary works which 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.
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