Manitoba Book Awards 2022 winners
Friday, Jun 10, 2022 at 12:58pm
Presenting the winners of the 2022 Manitoba Book Awards! With over a dozen different categories, these awards celebrate excellence in Manitoba writing, publishing, illustrating, and book design.
This year's winners include:
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction
Dadibaajim: Returning Home Through Narrative by Helen Olsen Agger, published by University of Manitoba Press
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award / Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg
Mont-Blanc-Winnipeg Express par Seream, publié par Les Éditions du Blé
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
CO-WINNERS:
• Persephone's Children: A Life in Fragments by Rowan McCandless, published by Dundurn Press
• We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian Horton, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
John Hirsch Emerging Manitoba Writer Award
Chimwemwe Undi
Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
The Lost Cafeteria by Joel Robert Ferguson, published by Signature Editions
Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards
• BOOK DESIGN: Warehouse Journal Volume Thirty edited & designed by Chelsea Colburn & Teresa Lyons, published by Warehouse Journal, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba
• ILLUSTRATION: Category held over until 2023.
• CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATION: You Came From My Heart by Brenlee Coates, illustrations by Roberta Landreth, published by FriesenPress
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
CO-WINNERS:
• Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson, published by Goose Lane Editions
• Prodigies by Bob Armstrong, published by Five Star (an imprint of Gale, a Cengage Company)
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
Did You See Us? Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School by Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School, preface by Theodore Fontaine, edited by Andrew Woolford, design by Vincent Design, published by University of Manitoba Press
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction
So Many Windings by Catherine Macdonald, published by At Bay Press
McNally Robinson Book for Young People (Younger Category)
I Sang You Down from the Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner, published by Owlkids Books
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
Out of Mind by David Bergen, published by Goose Lane Editions
Congratulations to all!
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Prairie Writing, Canadian LitSaskatchewan Book Awards 2021 winners
Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021 at 3:45pm
The winners of the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards were announced this week. These awards, which recognize and celebrate excellence and diversity in Saskatchewan writing and publishing, are presented in fourteen categories.
A full list of this year's winners can be found after the jump. Congratulations to all of them!
To see a virtual gala celebrating the winners and to get more information about the Saskatchewan Book Awards, please visit their website.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Prairie Writing, Canadian LitSaskatchewan Book Awards 2021: Shortlists
Saturday, May 01, 2021 at 5:39pm
The shortlists for the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards have been announced! You can find all of the finalists after the jump below.
The awards are divided into several categories to celebrate the best Saskatchewan writing from the past year.
Congratulations to all of the finalists!
The winners will be announced during a virtual gala celebration on Thursday June 17, 2021, at 7:00 pm. For more information you may visit the Saskatchewan Book Awards website.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Prairie Writing, Canadian LitManitoba Book Awards 2021: Shortlists
Friday, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:48pm
The finalists for the 2021 Manitoba Book Awards have been announced! You can find the complete lists after the jump.
The awards are divided into eleven categories and showcase the very best in writing, editing, design, and publishing here in Manitoba.
Congratulations to all of the nominees!
Sadly the pandemic means that we cannot celebrate together at a gala, so instead the winners will be announced via media release and social media on Thursday, May 20 at 11:00 a.m.
Categories: Awards, Winnipeg, Prairie Writing, Canadian LitManitoba Book Awards 2020 winners
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 2:07pm
The winners of the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards have been announced!
These eleven separate awards recognize excellence in Manitoba writing, book design, publishing, and stories, honoured authors and books published in the last year.
Of particular note are This Place: 150 Years Retold published by HighWater Press, which won both the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and The Promise Basket by Bill Richardson, which won the McNally Robinson Book for Young People, Younger Category award.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions an awards gala is impossible this year, so instead the Manitoba Book Awards is celebrating the winners via social media. To join in, visit their Facebook Page and congratulate your favourite winners!
The full list of 2020 winners can be found after the jump...
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