High Plains Book Awards
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
Nomination Fees: Payment by check at this time. Online payments available very soon!
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contact us.
2011 Book Awards:

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Best Fiction
Ghosts of Wyoming
Alyson Hagy
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Best Nonfiction
Bloodshed at Little Bighorn: Sitting Bull, Custer, and the Destinies of Nations
Tim Lehman
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Best First Book
Bound Like Grass: A Memoir From the Western High Plains
Ruth McLaughlin
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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.