First Round Reading is Underway
There were yet another record number of nominations received for the
2013 High Plains Book Awards. The books look terrific, and we look
forward to discovering new writers and incredible writing. The books will be read
and evaluated by over 150 first-round readers to determine the
finalists. These will be announced in May 2013.
Awards will be presented in nine book categories, and an Emeritus Award
for a author or writing team to recognize a body of work. Nominated
works must have been published for the first time in 2012.
For more information, contact us.
Congratulations to the 2012 Winners:
Emeritus Award: Thomas McGuane
Thomas McGuane has been selected as the Emeritus Award winner, which honors a distinguished writer for a body of work.
Read more about Emeritus Award Winner Thomas McGuane
2012 Winning Books:
Fiction
The Ringer
Jenny Shank
The Permanent Press
|
 Nonfiction
Hand Raised: The Barns of Montana
Chere Jiusto & Christine W. Brown
Montana Historical Society Press |
 First Book &
Short Stories
American Masculine
Shann Ray
Graywolf Press
|
 Poetry
Songs of Unreason
Jim Harrison
Copper Canyon Press
|
 Art & Photography
Arapaho Journeys: Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation
Sara Wiles
University of Oklahoma Press
|
 Woman Writer
Married Into It
Patricia Frolander
High Plains Press |
Billings Public Library Board of Trustees, Stella Fong & Joe Dillard, Friends of the Billings Public Library, Sharon Ilie, MSU-Billings, Parmly Billings Library Foundation, The Ucross Foundation, The Writer's Voice of the Billings Family YMCA, Yellowstone Art Museum, and the Zonta Club of Billings.
About the High Plains Book Awards
The Billings Public Library Board has established the High Plains Book Awards to recognize regional authors and/or 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.
For more information,
contact us.
