- Art & Photography: Victor Cicansky: The Gardener’s Universe/L’Univers d’un Jardinier, Timothy Long and Julia Krueger, editors, Regina, Saskatchewan. Published by Mackenzie Art Gallery, .
- Children’s Book: Howl: A New Look at the Big Bad Wolf, by Ted Rechlin, Helena, Montana. Published by RexTooth Studios
- Creative Nonfiction: Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, by Pam Houston, Creede, Colorado. Published by W. W. Norton & Company
- Fiction: Fall Back Down When I Die, by Joe Wilkins, McMinnville, Oregon. Published by Little, Brown and Company.
- First Book: Reckless Steps Toward Sanity: A Memoir, by Judith Sara Gelt, Centennial, Colorado. Published by University of New Mexico Press.
- Indigenous Writer: From the Ashes: My Story of Being Metis, Homeless, and Finding My Way, by Jesse Thistle, Hamilton, Ontario. Published by Simon & Schuster Canada.
- Medicine & Science: Six Hundred Generations: an Archaeological History of Montana, by Carl M. Davis. Missoula, Montana. Published by Riverbend Press
- Nonfiction: Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power, by Pekka Hamalainen, Oxford, United Kingdom. Published by Yale University Press
- Poetry: Wilderness//Kingdom, by Jory Mickelson, Bellingham, Washington. Published by Floating Bridge Press
- Short Stories: Winning Chance, by Katherine Koller, Edmonton, Alberta. Published by Great Plains Publications
- Woman Writer: River People, by Margaret Lukas, Omaha, Nebraska. Published by BQB Publishing.
- Young Adult: Cold White Sun, by Sue Farrell Holler, Grand Prairie, Alberta. Published by Groundwood Books.
- Big Sky Award: Voices Of Yellowstone’s Capstone, Traute N. Parrie and Jesse A. Logan, editors, Red Lodge, Montana. Published by Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation.
