2022 Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2022 High Plains Book Award winners!

Art and Photography

Bison: Portrait of an Icon

Audrey Hall and Chase Reynolds Ewald, Montana and California

Published by Gibbs Smith Books

 

Children’s Book

Dear Peter, Dear Ulla

Barbara Nickel, British Columbia

Published by Thistledown Press

 

Creative Nonfiction

The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

Julian Rubinstein, Colorado

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

Fiction

And It Will Be a Beautiful Life

Craig Lancaster, Montana

Published by The Story Plant

 

First Book

Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice

Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, New York

Published by Bison Books

 

Indigenous Writer

20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis

Arnolda Dufour Bowes, Saskatchewan

Published by Gabriel Dumont Institute Press

 

Medicine & Science

Wild Rescues: A Paramedic’s Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton

Kevin Grange, Wyoming

Published by Chicago Review Press

 

Nonfiction

A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts and Essays from the Montana Historical Society

The Montana Historical Society, Kirby Lambert and Tom Ferris, Montana

Published by the Montana Historical Society Press

 

Poetry

The Track the Whales Make: New and Selected Poems

Marjorie Saiser, Nebraska

Published by University of Nebraska Press

 

Short Stories

Site Fidelity

Claire Boyles, Colorado

Published by WW Norton

 

Woman Writer

The Stone Sister

Caroline Patterson, Montana

Published by Black Lawrence Press

 

Young Adult

Alone

Megan E. Freeman, Colorado

Published by Simon & Schuster/Aladdin

 

Big Sky

A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts and Essays from the Montana Historical Society

The Montana Historical Society, Kirby Lambert and Tom Ferris, Montana

Published by the Montana Historical Society Press

That’s what I love about the High Plains Book Awards – that it’s a celebration of “land” (region) rather than “country.” Literature should know no borders.

– Judge’s Comment

    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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