Manitoba Book Awards 2016 shortlists

Monday, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:31pm

The shortlists for the 2015/2016 Manitoba Book Awards were announced last week.

The annual awards, which "strive to acknowledge the wit, the art, and the profound dedication of all of those who fill our pages with 'made in Manitoba' literature", are given along with over $30,000 in prizes to various Manitoban writers, illustrators, designers, and publishers.

The winners of the Manitoba Book Awards will be presented at a gala on April 30th, 2016. If you are interested in attending, tickets can be purchased online.

In the meantime, the 2015/2016 shortlists can be found after the jump.

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Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

• Calling Down the Sky by Rosanna Deerchild, published by BookLand Press
• Monologue Dogs by Méira Cook, published by Brick Books
• Niche by Basma Kavanagh, published by Frontenac House Poetry 

 

Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards

Design Category

• Exquisite Monsters by K.I. Press, design by Jamis Paulson, published by Turnstone Press
• The Idea of a Human Rights Museum, edited by Karen Busby, Adam Muller and Andrew Woolford, design by Jess Koroscil, published by University of Manitoba Press
• The Land We Are: Artists & Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation, edited by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle-Hill and Sophie McCall, cover design by Sébastien Aubin, interior design by Relish New Brand Experience, published by ARP Books

General Illustrated Category

• A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada’s Undiscovered Province by Bartley Kives, design and typography by Relish New Brand Experience, published by Great Plains Publications
• Warehouse Journal Volume 24, edited and cover design by Amanda Austin and Ainsley Johnston, published by University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture
• Wish You Were Here: Hand-Tinted Postcards from Winnipeg’s Halcyon Days by Stan Milosevic, design and typography by Relish New Brand Experience, published by Great Plains Publications

Children’s Illustrator Category 

• Alexia Wants to Fly by Talia Pura, illustrated by Wai Tien, published by Lily Star Press
• Fur Is Only Fur Deep by Julia Schettler, illustrated by Sarah Neville, published by Peasantry Press
• Misaabe’s Stories: A Story of Honesty by Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Irene Kuziw, published by Portage & Main Press

Graphic Novel Category

• The Graphic Novel Category will be awarded for the first time in 2017. For the first year (2017) we will accept entries published in 2015 and 2016. In following years entries will only be accepted from the current publishing year.

 

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher 

• After Light by Catherine Hunter, cover design by Doowah Design, published by Signature Editions
• Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration, edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson, cover photo by Thosh Collins, cover design by Marvin Harder, interior design by Karen Armstrong Graphic Design, published by University of Manitoba Press
• Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman, edited and with an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning, cover design by Mike Carroll, interior design by Jess Koroscil, published by University of Manitoba Press
• The Road to Atlantis by Leo Brent Robillard, cover design by Jamis Paulson, interior design by Sharon Caseburg, published by Turnstone Press
• Too Far Gone by Chadwick Ginther, cover design by Jamis Paulson, interior design by Sharon Caseburg, published by Ravenstone, an imprint of Turnstone Press

 

Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

• After Light by Catherine Hunter, published by Signature Editions
• Last Known Whereabouts by Margaret Riddell, published by Margaret Riddell
• Lessons from a Nude Man by Donna Besel, published by Hagios Press
• Let Us Be True by Erna Buffie, published by Coteau Books
• Nightwatching by Méira Cook, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

 

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction 

• Decolonizing Employment: Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada’s Labour Market by Shauna MacKinnon, published by University of Manitoba Press
• Letters to Brian: A Year of Living and Remembrance by Martha Brooks, published by Turnstone Press
• The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada
• This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States by Andrew Woolford, published by University of Manitoba Press
• We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike by Stefan Epp-Koop, published by University of Manitoba Press

 

Beatrice Mosionier Award for Aboriginal Writer of the Year

 

• Chantal Fiola (Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality,published by University of Manitoba Press)
• David Alexander Robertson (Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story, illustrated by Scott B Henderson, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press)
• Roland Vandal (Off the Ropes: My Story, as told to Carlene Rummery, published by J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc.)

 

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award 

• 100 Things Jets Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Jon Waldman, published by Triumph Books
• After Light by Catherine Hunter, published by Signature Editions
• The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada
• We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike by Stefan Epp-Koop, published by University of Manitoba Press
• Winnipeg Cooks: Signature Recipes from the City’s Top Chefs by Robin Summerfield, published by Figure 1 Publishing

 

Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

• From the Barren Lands: Fur Trade, First Nations and a Life in Northern Canada by Leonard G. Flett, published by Great Plains Publications
• Let Us Be True by Erna Buffie, published by Coteau Books
• Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Restoring a Dangerous Order by Shawna Ferris, published by the University of Alberta Press
• We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike by Stefan Epp-Koop, published by University of Manitoba Press

 

John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer 

• Donna Besel
• Jodi Carmichael
• G.M.B. Chomichuk
• Joanne Epp
• Chantal Fiola
• Alix Sobler

 

Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

• Blue Vengeance by Alison Preston, published Signature Editions
• Infinitum by G.M.B. Chomichuk, published by ChiGraphic, an imprint of ChiZine Publications
• Kraken Bake by Karen Dudley, published by Ravenstone, an imprint of Turnstone Press
• Put on the Armour of Light by Catherine Macdonald, published by Dundurn
• Too Far Gone by Chadwick Ginther, published by Ravenstone, an imprint of Turnstone Press

 

McNally Robinson Books for Young People Awards (younger)

• Alexia Wants to Fly by Talia Pura, illustrated by Wai Tien, published by Lilly Star Press
• Fur Is Only Fur Deep by Julia Schettler, illustrated by Sarah Neville, published by Peasantry Press
• InvisiBill by Maureen Fergus, illustrated by Dušan Petricic, published by Tundra Books
• Misaabe’s Stories: A Story of Honesty by Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Irene Kuziw, published by Portage & Main Press
• Nana and Me by Kathy Knowles, illustrated by Edmund Opare, published by Osu Children’s Library Fund

 

McNally Robinson Books for Young People Awards (older)

• Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story by David Alexander Robertson, illustrated by Scott B Henderson, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
• Broken Stone by Gabriele Goldstone, published by Rebelight Publishing Inc.
• Forever Julia by Jodi Carmichael, published by Great Plains Teen Fiction, an imprint of Great Plains Publications
• Ghost Most Foul by Patti Grayson, published by Coteau Books

 

McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

• After Light by Catherine Hunter, published by Signature Editions
• Calling Down the Sky by Rosanna Deerchild, published by BookLand Press
• Monologue Dogs by Méira Cook, published by Brick Books
• The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc.
• We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike by Stefan Epp-Koop, published by University of Manitoba Press

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