The Manitoba Book Awards were held on April 27th at the West End Cultural Centre, and our Great Plains authors and designers did not leave empty handed!

The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award honours a book that evokes a special character of and appreciation for Winnipeg, and we were delighted to see Bartley Kives and Bryan Scott’s Stuck in the Middle win this prize.  Bryan’s iconic photography paired with Bartley’s sharp writing “present a portarit of Winnipeg that is at once damningly honest and brazenly flattering” (jury comments).

300 Years of Beer took home the prize for Best Illustrated Book of the Year.  With over 400 illustrations (and some artwork that was over 100 years old), Great Plains sends a well deserved congratulations to Bill Wright and Dave Craig as well as the talented team at Relish New Brand Experience.

Colleen Nelson’s The Fall “takes us into a revealing world of confusion and suffering as a handful of teenagers try to deal with the death of a friend.”  As a middle-school teacher, Colleen witnessed the students in her class tackle the grief and trauma after their classmate died tragically, and she channeled this experience into the writing of her second novel. Great Plains Teen Fiction was thrilled to see Colleen win her second McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award!

Great Plains Publications thanks the jurors, event organizers and sponsors of the Manitoba Book Awards for a wonderful night celebrating Manitoba writing and publishing. Congratulations to all of the nominees and award recipients!