Saskatchewan Book Awards 2021: Shortlists

Saturday, May 01, 2021 at 6:08pm

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.

Ministry of Culture, Recreation, and Sport First Book Award

Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans (Touchwood Editions) by Jenn Sharp (Photography by Richard Marjan).
Road to La Prairie Ronde (GDI Press) by Cort Dogniez.
Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press) by Nicole Haldoupis.
The Burden of Gravity (Caitlin Press) by Shannon McConnell.
Nutaui’s Cap (Running the Goat, Books & Broadsides) by Bob Bartel (Illustrated by Mary Ann Penashue).

Ann and Roger Phillips Foundation Prix du livre français

Contes bleus à encre économe (Micronouvelles) (la nouvelle plume) by Ian Nelson.
Will & Ernest (la nouvelle plume) by Martine Noël-Maw.
Junk City (la nouvelle plume) by David Baudemont.
théâtre fransaskois: Le théâtre fransaskois, Volume VI (la nouvelle plume) Edited by Laurier Gareau.

University of Saskatchewan, Non-Fiction Award

Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina Press) by Bevann Fox.
Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans (Touchwood Editions), by Jenn Sharp (photography by Richard Marjan).
Loss of Indigenous Eden: and the Fall of Spirituality (University of Regina Press) by Blair Stonechild.
A Radiant Life: The Honourable Sylvia Fedoruk (University of Regina Press) by Merle Massie.
In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation (Fifth House Publishers) by Bill Waiser.

SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski

Uninterrupted (Ekstasis Editions) by gillian harding-russell.
Field Notes for the Self (University of Regina Press) by Randy Lundy.
The Burden of Gravity (Caitlin Press) by Shannon McConnell.
The Vivian Poems: Street Photographer Vivian Maier (Radiant Press) by Bruce Rice.

University of Regina Faculty of Arts/University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award

The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux (University of Nebraska Press) by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, edited by Daniel M. Beveridge.
The Next Instalment: Serials, Sequels, and Adaptations of Nellie L. McClung, L.M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) by Wendy Roy.
In Search of Almighty Voice: Resistance and Reconciliation (Fifth House Publishers) by Bill Waiser.

City of Saskatoon/Saskatoon Public Library Saskatoon Award

If Sylvie Had Nine Lives (Freehand Books) by Leona Theis.
Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans (Touchwood Editions) by Jenn Sharp (photography by Richard Marjan).
The Burden of Gravity (Caitlin Press) by Shannon McConnell.
In Search of Almighty Voice, Resistance and Reconciliation (Fifth House Publishers) by Bill Waiser.
Small Reckonings (Burton House Books) by Karin Melberg Schwier.

City of Regina Regina Award

Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture (University of Toronto Press) by Donica Belisle.
Loss of Indigenous Eden and The Fall of Spirituality (University of Regina Press) by Blair Stonechild.
Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina) by Bevann Fox.
The Moonlit World: Book 3 (DAW) by Edward Willett.
The Diamond House (HarperCollins) by Dianne Warren.

Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award

Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina Press) by Bevann Fox.
Loss of Indigenous Eden and The Fall of Spirituality (University of Regina Press) by Blair Stonechild.
Field Notes for the Self (University of Regina Press) by Randy Lundy.
The Narrows of Fear (Inanna) Carol Rose GoldenEagle.
Cry Wolf: Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator (University of Regina Press) by Harold Johnson.

G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation Young Adult Award

Qaqavii (Red Deer Press) by Miriam Körner.
Because of that Crow (Red Deer Press) by Beverley Brenna.
The Gamer’s Guide to Getting The Girl (Dundurn Press) by Kristine Scarrow.

Fiction Award

Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press) by Nicole Haldoupis.
If Sylvie Had Nine Lives (Freehand Books) by Leona Theis.
The Diamond House (HarperCollins) by Dianne Warren.
The Unlocking Season (ECW Press) by Gail Bowen.
The Teller from the Tale (Radiant Press) by Ven Begamudré.

Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring Mary Sutherland

Tiny Ruins (Radiant Press) by Nicole Haldoupis.
The Diamond House (HarperCollins) by Dianne Warren.
Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina Press) by Bevann Fox.
Field Notes for the Self (University of Regina Press) by Randy Lundy.
Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans (Touchwood Editions) by Jenn Sharp (photography by Richard Marjan).

Awards for Publishers

Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award

Radiant Press for Tiny Ruins by Nicole Haldoupis.
University of Regina Press for Nature’s Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis by Paul Huebener.
University of Regina Press Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet by Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, and Evan D.G. Fraser.
University of Regina Press for Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School by Bevann Fox.
University of Regina Press for Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada Edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware.

SaskBooks Publishing in Education Award

GDI Press for Road to La Prairie Ronde by Cort Dogniez.
The MacKenzie Art Gallery for Victor Cicansky: The Gardiner’s Universe/L’univers d’un jardinier edited by Julia Krueger and Timothy Long.
University of Regina Press for Arrows in a Quiver: From Contact to the Courts in Indigneous-Canadian Relations by James Frideres.
University of Regina Press for Nakón-i'a wo!: Beginning Nakoda Vincent Collette (ed) with Armand McArthur and Wilma Kennedy.

Saskatoon Public Library Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award

University of Regina Press for Loss of Indigenous Eden and The Fall of Spirituality by Blair Stonechild.
University of Regina Press for Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School by Bevann Fox.
University of Regina Press Nakón-i'a wo!: Beginning Nakoda Vincent Collette (ed) with Armand McArthur and Wilma Kennedy.
University of Regina Press for Cry Wolf: Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator by Harold Johnson.
Miyawata Culture Culture Inc. for The Story of Broken Knife Lookout by Floyd Favel.

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