The Manitoba Writers’ Guild, with the assistance of the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers, is happy to announce the 2013 Manitoba Book Awards Nominees:
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et essais
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishinabe Understanding of Treaty One / Aimée Craft / Purich Publishing Ltd.
Canadian Policing in the 21st Century / Robert Chrismas / McGill-Queen’s University Press.
The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War / Hans Werner / University of Manitoba Press
“Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism, Resistance and Aboriginal Street Gangs / Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette & Jim Silver / Fernwood Publishing
Best Illustrated Book of the Year | Meilleur livre illustré de l’année
300 Years of Beer: An Illustrated History of Brewing in Manitoba / Bill Wright & Dave Craig / Great Plains Publications / design by Relish New Brand Experience
Confessions sans pénitence / Lise Gaboury-Diallo / Les Éditions du Blé / graphiste Philippe Dupas / illustrations par Denis Devigne
Itty Bitty Bits / Anita Daher / Peanut Butter Press / illustrations by Wendy Bailey / design by Melanie Matheson, Blue Claw Studio
Would Someone Please Answer the Parrot! / by Beryl Young / Peanut Butter Press / llustrations by Jason Doll / design by Lee Huscroft
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishinabe Understanding of Treaty One / Aimée Craft / Purich Publishing Ltd.
Happiness Threads, The Unborn Poems / Melanie Dennis Unrau / The Muse’s Company, J G Shillingford
The Lake and the Library / S.M. Beiko / ECW Press Ltd.
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg
Rebel Without a Pause: A Memoir / Nick Ternette / Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing
The Silent March / by C.M. Klyne / Self-published
Stuck in the Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg / text by Bartley Kives, photographs by Bryan Scott / Great Plains Publications
Tombstone Blues / Chadwick Ginther / Ravenstone Books, an imprint of Turnstone Press
The Wittenbergs / Sarah Klassen / Turnstone Press.
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Jonathan Ball
Melanie Dennis Unrau
Laurelyn Whitt
Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | Prix Lansdowne de poésie
Sûtra / J. R. Léveillé / Les Éditions du Blé
Tempo / Barthélemy Bolivar / Les Éditions du Blé
Tether / Laurelyn Whitt / Seraphim Editions
Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year | Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique en édition
100 Masters: Only in Canada / Stephen Borys with Andrew Kear / the Winnipeg Art Gallery / design by Frank Reimer
300 Years of Beer: An Illustrated History of Brewing in Manitoba / Bill Wright & Dave Craig / published by Great Plains Publications /design by Relish New Brand Experience.
Confessions sans pénitence / Lise Gaboury-Diallo / Les Éditions du Blé / graphiste Philippe Dupas / illustrations par Denis Devigne
Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow / William Dumas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press) / design by Relish New Brand Experience Inc. / illustrations by Leonard Paul
Powwow Counting in Cree / Penny M. Thomas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press), design by Relish New Brand Experience Inc., illustrations by Melinda Josie
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
The Insistent Garden / Rosie Chard / NeWest Press
Sebastiano’s Vine / Carmelo Militano / Ekstasis Editions
Ten Lords A Leaping / C.C. Bennison / Doubleday Canada
Wolf River / Margaret Riddell / Self-published
The Wittenbergs / Sarah Klassen / Turnstone Press
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba
300 Years of Beer: An Illustrated History of Brewing in Manitoba / Bill Wright and Dave Craig / Great Plains Publications
Condemned to Repeat: A Randy Craig Mystery / Janice MacDonald / Ravenstone, an imprint of Turnstone Press
Manitoba Butterflies: A Field Guide / Simone Hébert Allard / Turnstone Press
The Wittenbergs / Sarah Klassen / Turnstone Press
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Younger Category
A Walk in Pirate’s Cove / Marisa Hochman / 36 Peonies Publishing Inc.
Powwow Counting in Cree / Penny M. Thomas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press),
Surviving the Hindenburg / Larry Verstraete / Sleeping Bear Press
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Older Category
The Fall / Colleen Nelson / Great Plains Teen Fiction
The Gypsy King / Maureen Fergus / Penguin Canada Books Inc
Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow / William Dumas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press)
McNally Robinson Book of the Year
The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War / Hans Werner / University of Manitoba Press
Kisiskatchewan: The Great River Road / Barbara Huck / Heartland Associates Inc.
The Secret Mask / Rick Chafe / Playwrights Canada Press
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction (2012/2013)
Food for the Gods: An Epikurean Epic / Karen Dudley / Turnstone Press
Gethsemane Hall / David Annandale / Dundurn
Thunder Road / Chadwick Ginther/ Turnstone Press
The Manitoba Writers’ Guild would like to thank this year’s awards sponsors:
Canada Council for the Arts
Friesen’s
Manitoba Arts Council
McNally Robinson Booksellers
Manitoba Tourism, Culture, Sport and Consumer Protection
Prairie Fire Press Inc.
Winnipeg Arts Council
The Winnipeg Foundation
Winnipeg International Writers’ Festival
*The Writers’ Collective
The 2013 Manitoba Book Awards take place Sunday April 27, 2014 at the West End Cultural Centre. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the ceremonies begin at 7:00 pm. Admission is FREE.
For more information, please contact:
Kendra Gaede, Event Coordinator
Manitoba Writers’ Guild
[email protected] or 204-944-8013
www.mbwriter.mb.ca
La Manitoba Writers’ Guild, avec l’assistance de l’Association of Manitoba Book Publishers, annonce les finalistes aux Prix du livre du Manitoba 2013 :
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et essais
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishinabe Understanding of Treaty One / Aimée Craft / Purich Publishing Ltd.
Canadian Policing in the 21st Century / Robert Chrismas / McGill-Queen’s University Press.
The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War / Hans Werner / University of Manitoba Press
“Indians Wear Red”: Colonialism, Resistance and Aboriginal Street Gangs / Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette & Jim Silver / Fernwood Publishing
Best Illustrated Book of the Year | Meilleur livre illustré de l’année
300 Years of Beer: An Illustrated History of Brewing in Manitoba / Bill Wright & Dave Craig / Great Plains Publications / design by Relish New Brand Experience
Confessions sans pénitence / Lise Gaboury-Diallo / Les Éditions du Blé / graphiste Philippe Dupas / illustrations par Denis Devigne
Itty Bitty Bits / Anita Daher / Peanut Butter Press / illustrations by Wendy Bailey / design by Melanie Matheson, Blue Claw Studio
Would Someone Please Answer the Parrot! / by Beryl Young / Peanut Butter Press / llustrations by Jason Doll / design by Lee Huscroft
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishinabe Understanding of Treaty One / Aimée Craft / Purich Publishing Ltd.
Happiness Threads, The Unborn Poems / Melanie Dennis Unrau / The Muse’s Company, J G Shillingford
The Lake and the Library / S.M. Beiko / ECW Press Ltd.
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg
Rebel Without a Pause: A Memoir / Nick Ternette / Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing
The Silent March / by C.M. Klyne / Self-published
Stuck in the Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg / text by Bartley Kives, photographs by Bryan Scott / Great Plains Publications
Tombstone Blues / Chadwick Ginther / Ravenstone Books, an imprint of Turnstone Press
The Wittenbergs / Sarah Klassen / Turnstone Press.
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Jonathan Ball
Melanie Dennis Unrau
Laurelyn Whitt
Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | Prix Lansdowne de poésie
Sûtra / J. R. Léveillé / Les Éditions du Blé
Tempo / Barthélemy Bolivar / Les Éditions du Blé
Tether / Laurelyn Whitt / Seraphim Editions
Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year | Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique en édition
100 Masters: Only in Canada / Stephen Borys with Andrew Kear / the Winnipeg Art Gallery / design by Frank Reimer
300 Years of Beer: An Illustrated History of Brewing in Manitoba / Bill Wright & Dave Craig / published by Great Plains Publications /design by Relish New Brand Experience.
Confessions sans pénitence / Lise Gaboury-Diallo / Les Éditions du Blé / graphiste Philippe Dupas / illustrations par Denis Devigne
Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow / William Dumas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press) / design by Relish New Brand Experience Inc. / illustrations by Leonard Paul
Powwow Counting in Cree / Penny M. Thomas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press), design by Relish New Brand Experience Inc., illustrations by Melinda Josie
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
The Insistent Garden / Rosie Chard / NeWest Press
Sebastiano’s Vine / Carmelo Militano / Ekstasis Editions
Ten Lords A Leaping / C.C. Bennison / Doubleday Canada
Wolf River / Margaret Riddell / Self-published
The Wittenbergs / Sarah Klassen / Turnstone Press
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba
300 Years of Beer: An Illustrated History of Brewing in Manitoba / Bill Wright and Dave Craig / Great Plains Publications
Condemned to Repeat: A Randy Craig Mystery / Janice MacDonald / Ravenstone, an imprint of Turnstone Press
Manitoba Butterflies: A Field Guide / Simone Hébert Allard / Turnstone Press
The Wittenbergs / Sarah Klassen / Turnstone Press
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Younger Category
A Walk in Pirate’s Cove / Marisa Hochman / 36 Peonies Publishing Inc.
Powwow Counting in Cree / Penny M. Thomas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press),
Surviving the Hindenburg / Larry Verstraete / Sleeping Bear Press
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Older Category
The Fall / Colleen Nelson / Great Plains Teen Fiction
The Gypsy King / Maureen Fergus / Penguin Canada Books Inc
Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow / William Dumas / HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press)
McNally Robinson Book of the Year
The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War / Hans Werner / University of Manitoba Press
Kisiskatchewan: The Great River Road / Barbara Huck / Heartland Associates Inc.
The Secret Mask / Rick Chafe / Playwrights Canada Press
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction (2012/2013)
Food for the Gods: An Epikurean Epic / Karen Dudley / Turnstone Press
Gethsemane Hall / David Annandale / Dundurn
Thunder Road / Chadwick Ginther/ Turnstone Press
La Manitoba Writers’ Guild remercie les commanditaires de cette année:
Conseil des arts du Canada
Conseil des Arts du Manitoba
Friesen’s
McNally Robinson Booksellers
Tourisme, Culture, Patrimoine, Sport et Protection du consommateur du Manitoba
Prairie Fire Press Inc.
Le Conseil des arts de Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Foundation
Festival internationale des écrivains de Winnipeg
*The Writers’ Collective
La soirée de remise des Prix du livre du Manitoba 2013 aura lieu Dimanche le 27 avril 2014 au West End Cultural Centre. Les portes ouvriront à 18 h 30 et la cérémonie débutera à 19 heures. L’entrée est libre.
Pour plus d’informations, veuillez contacter :
Kendra Gaede, coordinatrice
Manitoba Writers’ Guild
[email protected] ou 204-944-8013
www.mbwriter.mb.ca