2023 Festivities

Schedule of Events – Saturday, October 7, 2023

Join us to celebrate this year’s finalists and hear who the winners are!

All events are FREE and open to the public.

Books will be available for sale at all events, and authors will be happy to sign/inscribe them. Book sales are provided by This House of Books.

Author Panels – Billings Public Library Community Room

11am-12pm Fiction: Better for the Brain? (Jeanette Lynes, Brady Harrison, Leslie Greentree, Julie Sellers)

12pm-1pmLiterature & the Land (Elise Atchison, Bob Budd, David Carpenter, Taylor Brorby)

1pm-2pmWriting as Social Commentary (Dorothy Bradley, Mandy Smoker, Natalie Peeterse, Zarqa Nawaz, Erika T. Wurth)

2pm-3pmPoetry Reading & Discussion (Tom Vandel, Ruth Maus, Katherine Lawrence, Charles Finn)

3pm-4pmWords & Pictures: Putting Them Together (Penelope Kaye, Lynne Harley, Shann Ray, Craig Hergert, Barbara Michelman, Charles Finn)

4pm-5pmRecording Forgotten History (Thomas Minckler, Michele Corriel, Juliana Hoolihan Clayton, Nate Schweber)

Full List of 2023 Finalists

Read Reviews of the 2023 Finalists

 

The Billings Public Library is located at 510 N Broadway in downtown Billings. The Community Room is on the left just after entering the doors from the parking lot, before going through to the main part of the library.

Awards Ceremony Announcing Winners

8pm in the Glacier Room at MSUB

The Glacier Room is across the ground-floor atrium from Petro Theater in building #12 on the map below. Parking is available in lots off of Rimrock Road and near McMullen Hall off of Poly Drive.

    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.

    ADDRESS

    1302 - 24th St W. #109
    Billings, MT 59101

    PHONE

    (406) 652-2053

    EMAIL

    info@highplainsbookawards.org