2023 Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2023 High Plains Book Award winners!

  • Art & Photography: Montana Modernists: Shifting Persepctives of Western Art by Michele Corriel (Washington State University Press)
  • Children’s Middle Grade Book: Thunderous by M. L. Smoker & Natalie Peeterse (Curiosity Books)
  • Children’s Picture Book: I Do Not Like the Rotten Egg Scent in Yellowstone National Park by Penelope Kaye (Pipstones Publishing)
  • Creative Nonfiction: I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like: A Memoir by David Carpenter (Thistledown Press)
  • Fiction: Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz (Simon & Schuster Canada)
  • First Book: Crazy Mountain by Elise Atchison (Sowilo Press)
  • Indigenous Writer: Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson (HarperCollins)
  • Nonfiction: This America of Ours: Bernard and Avid DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild by Nate Schweber (Mariner)
  • Poetry: The Big Melt by Emily Riddle (Nightwood Editions)
  • Short Stories: The Term Between by Brady Harrison (Twelve Winters Press)
  • Woman Writer: White Horse by Erika T. Wurth (Flatiron Books)
  • Young Adult: Behind the Label: Gloria & Willa by Lorna Schultz Nicholson (Red Deer Press)
  • Big Sky Award: Montana Modernists: Shifting Persepctives of Western Art by Michele Corriel (Washington State University 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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