2022 Finalists
2022 High Plains Book Awards Finalists
- Bison: Portrait of an Icon by Audrey Hall and Chase Reynolds Ewald; published by Gibbs Smith Books
- Jon Lodge: Fracture by Brandon Reintjes and Gordon McConnell; published by Missoula Art Museum
- George Carlson: The American West by Todd Wilkinson; published by Rizzoli New York
Children’s Book
- The Undercover Book List by Colleen Nelson; published by Pajama Press
- The Mystery of the Giant Kohlrabi by Sharon Plumb; self-published
- Dear Peter, Dear Ulla by Barbara Nickel; published by Thistledown Press
Creative Nonfiction
- Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West by David Horgan; published by University of Nevada Press
- We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian Horton; published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
- The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Julian Rubinstein; published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Fiction
- Let the Wild Grasses Grow by Kase Johnstun; published by Torry House Press
- And It Will Be a Beautiful Life by Craig Lancaster; published by The Story Plant
- Daughter of the Morning Star: A Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson; published by Viking
First Book
- Miraculous Sickness by ky perraun; published by At Bay Press
- Commendable Discretion: A Detective Novel of the Old West by Juliana Hoolihan Clayton; published by Dog Soldier Press
- Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys; published by Bison Books
Indigenous Writer
- 20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis by Arnolda Dufour Bowes; published by Gabriel Dumont Institute Press
- Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands by Jacqueline Keeler; published by Torrey House Press
- Kitotam by John Brady McDonald; published by Radiant Press
Medicine & Science
- We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian Horton; published by HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd.
- Wild Rescues: A Paramedic’s Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin Grange; published by Chicago Review Press
- The Scenic Geology of Alberta: A Roadside Touring and Hiking Guide by Dale Leckie; self-published
Nonfiction
- No One Dare Call Her A Liar by Larry Lee Kruckenberg; self-published
- A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts and Essays from the Montana Historical Society by the Montana Historical Society, Kirby Lambert and Tom Ferris; published by the Montana Historical Society Press
- We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian Horton; published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Poetry
- No Way: An American Tao Te Ching by David Romtvedt; published by Louisiana State University Press
- The Track the Whales Make: New and Selected Poems by Marjorie Saiser; published by University of Nebraska Press
- awâsis—kinky and disheveled by Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer; published by Brick Books
Short Stories
- Site Fidelity by Claire Boyles; published by WW Norton
- What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy J. Fox; published by the Santa Fe Writers Project
- The Broken World by Tom Vandel; self-published
Woman Writer
- The Stone Sister by Caroline Patterson; published by Black Lawrence Press
- Ancestors: Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs by Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning; published by Bruce Peel Special Collections, University of Alberta Library
- The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman’s Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure by Melissa Cook; self-published
Young Adult Book
- Alone by Megan E. Freeman; published by Simon & Schuster/Aladdin
- The Life and Deaths of Frankie D. by Colleen Nelson; published by Dundurn Press
- When You Least Expect It by Lorna Schultz Nicholson; published by Red Deer Press
