2015 Manitoba Book Awards: Nominees announced

The Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers recently announced the 2015 nominees for the Manitoba Book Awards. 

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The Manitoba Book Awards are presented in the following 13 categories:

• Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction/ Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et essais

• Beatrice Mosionier Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award / Prix Beatrice-Mosionier pour l’écrivain/e autochtone de l’année

• Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award/ Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg

• The Chris Johnson Award for Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright / Prix Chris-Johnson pour la meilleure pièce par un dramaturge manitobain

• Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

• John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer / Prix John-Hirsch pour l’écrivain manitobain le plus prometteur

• Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Prix Lansdowne de poésie

• Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault

• Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards/ Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique et d’illustration en édition

• Design Category (emphasis on cover design and typography)
• Children’s Books/Graphic Novels Category
• General Illustration Category

• Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

• Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher/ Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba

• McNally Robinson Books for Young People Awards

• Younger category
• Older Category

• McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award 

 
The awards will be presented at the Manitoba Book Awards gala, on Sunday April 25^th at the Marlborough Hotel.

As I always do like to focus on the awards for younger readers, I've included the short-listed nominees for the Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards and the McNally Robinson Books for Young People Awards.

Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards/ Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique et d’illustration en édition

Children’s Books/Graphic Novels Category

Cassie and Tonk
Created and illustrated by Justin Currie
Written by GMB Chomichuk
Robotic reference by Will Liddle
Chasing Artwork

The Chair by the Side of the Road

by Adrian Hawaleshka
self-published/Friesen Press
Illustrated by Natasha Boone

The Peacemaker: Thanadelthur (Tales from Big Spirit Series)

by David Alexander Robertson
HighWater Press (an imprint of Portage & Main Press)
Design by Relish New Brand Experience
Illustrated by Wai Tien







McNally Robinson Books for Young People Awards

In the Younger Category:

 

 

The Chair by the Side of the Road 

by Adrian Hawaleshka

self-published/Friesen Press 

 

The Firewalker 

by Shezza Ansloos 

Pemmican Publications

Hokey Dowa Gerda and the Snowflake Girl 

by M.J. Matheson

Peanut Butter Press  

Mr. Jacobson’s Window 

by Deborah Froese

Peanut Butter Press

 

 

Princess 

by Dennis Fast

Heartland Associates











In the Older Category:

Empty Cup  
by Suzanne Costigan
Rebelight Publishing

Missing in Paradise  
by Larry Verstraete
Rebelight Publishing

Tucson Jo  
by Carol Matas
Fictive Press

The World Outside  
by Eva Wiseman
Tundra Books

Your Constant Star 
by Brenda Hasiuk
Orca Book Publishers










Find more details on this year's nominees at the Manitoba Book Awards website.

2013 Manitoba Book Awards' nominees announced

On March 14, 2013, the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers announced the 2013 nominees for the Manitoba Book Awards. 

The Manitoba Book Awards are presented in the following thirteen categories:

• Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Prix Lansdowne de poésie

• Best Illustrated Book of the Year / Meilleur livre illustré de l’année

• Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year / Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique en édition

• Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

• Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award / Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg

• Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

• Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

• Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction / Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et essais

• John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer

• Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher / Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba

• McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award

• Younger Category (n.b. no nominees this year)
• Older Category

• McNally Robinson Book of the Year

The awards will be presented at the Manitoba Book Awards gala, on Sunday April 28^th at the West End Cultural Centre and hosted by Ismaila Alfa.  Doors open at 7:15 p.m., with the ceremony beginning at 8:00 p.m.  If I was fortunate enough to live near Winnipeg, I'd be delighted to attend this event which is free and open to the public.


As I always do like to focus on the awards for younger readers, I've included the short-listed nominees for the Best Illustrated Book of the Year and the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award.

Best Illustrated Book of the Year
 (n.b. only the first book could be considered a book for young readers)

7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga
by David Alexander Robertson
Illustrations by Scott B. Henderson
Design by Relish New Brand Experience
Published by Highwater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press

Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L. B. Foote
by Esyllt W. Jones
Design by Doowah Design
Published by University of Manitoba Press

Mike Grandmaison’s Prairie and Beyond
Photographs by Mike Grandmaison
Design by Jamis Paulson
Published by Turnstone Press

Romulus + Remus: Issue 1 
Written, Illustrated, and published by Scott Ford







McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award

In the Older Category:

7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga
by David Alexander Robertson
Published by Highwater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press

The Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City 
by Kevin Marc Fournier
Published by Great Plains Teen Fiction

The Last Song 
by Eva Wiseman
Published by Tundra Books
 







Find more details on this year's nominees at the Manitoba Writers' Guild.