Nominations Now Open for the 2012 High Plains Book Awards

Nominations for the 2012 High Plains Book Awards are now open. Awards will be presented in seven 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 2011. All nominations must be received by March 9, 2012. For full details, please view the Nomination Criteria.

Award Sponsors: Parmly Billings Library Board of Trustees, Friends of the Parmly Billings Library, MSU-Billings, Parmly Billings Library Foundation, The Writer's Voice of the Billings Family YMCA, Yellowstone Art Museum, Zonta Club of Billings

Nomination Criteria

Book Nomination Form

Emeritus Award Nomination Form

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2011 Book Awards:

Best Fiction Ghosts of Wyoming Alyson Hagy	Best Nonfiction Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations Tim Lehman	Best First Book Bound Like Grass: A Memoir From the Western High Plains Ruth McLaughlin
Best Poetry Horse Tracks Henry Real Bird	Best Woman Writer Goodbye Wifes and Daughters Susan Kushner Resnick	Best Art & Photography Visions of the Big Sky Dan Flores

The Parmly Billings Library Board has established the High Plains Book Awards. These Awards have been established 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.