Congratulations to two UNP authors who were recognized for their work! Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice (Bison Books, 2021) by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys won in the First Book Award category. The Track the Whales … Continue reading High Plains Book Award Winners: Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys & Marjorie Saiser
Congratulations to two UNP authors who were recognized for their work! Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands (Nebraska, 2021) by Paul Barba has been selected for the 2022 David J. Weber Prize for the best … Continue reading WHA Prize Winners: Paul Barba and Traci Brynne Voyles
Lisa Hendrickson’s Burning the Breeze is a finalist for the Evans Biography Award Wynne Brown’s Forgotten Botanist is a WILLA award winner and Burning the Breeze is a finalist Saddiq Dzukogi’s Your Crib, My Qibla and Susan Nguyen’s Dear Diaspora are … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
Congratulations to two UNP authors who were recognized for their work! Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-1890 (Nebraska, 2020) by Matthew S. Luckett was the winner of the Nonfiction Nebraska History category. My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the … Continue reading 2021 Nebraska Book Award Winners
Congratulations to the following authors who have recently been recognized for their work. In the Lambda Literary Awards, Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun is a finalist for Gay Poetry, and Nepantla Squared by Linda Heidenreich is a finalist for … Continue reading Recent Award Winners & Finalists
Congratulations to Jacqueline Saper, whose memoir From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran (Potomac Books, 2019) was named the 2020 Book of the Year in Traditional Nonfiction by the Chicago Writers Association! Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was … Continue reading “From Miniskirt to Hijab” Named a Book of the Year by the Chicago Writers Association
Congratulations to the following UNP authors who have been recently recognized for their work. Joyce Sutphen was a finalist for the “Read Poetry Central Minnesota 2020” program. Liz Breazeale was awarded a 2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
The following books recently became award winners. Congratulations to all the authors! Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning by Julija Šukys won the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature in Nonfiction. The Vine Awards Jury said, “Julija Šukys’s Siberian … Continue reading Recent Award Winners
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