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Fiction (Belletristik)

(2007)2008 Sarah Klassen: A Feast of Longing
[in der Endausscheidung: Lori G. Armstrong: Shallow Grave
& Russell Rowland: The Watershed Years]

(2008)2009 Leif Enger: So Brave, Young, and Handsome
[in der Endausscheidung: Craig Johnson: Another Man’s Moccasins
& Janet Muirhead Hill: Kyleah’s Tree]

(2009)2010 Kent Meyers: Twisted Tree
[in der Endausscheidung: Connie Gault: Euphoria
& Robert Greer: Spoon]

(2010)2011 Alyson Hagy: Ghosts of Wyoming: Stories
[in der Endausscheidung: Brad Watson: Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
& Nancy Pickard: The Scent of Rain and Lightning]

(2011)2012 Jenny Shank: The Ringer
[in der Endausscheidung: David E. Hilton: Kings of Colorado (dt.: Wir sind die Könige von Colorado)
& Robin Troy: Liberty Lanes]

(2012)2013 Louise Erdrich: The Round House (dt.: Das Haus des Windes)
[in der Endausscheidung: Richard Ford: Canada (dt.: Kanada)
& Keith McCafferty: The Royal Wulff Murders]

(2013)2014 Larry Watson: Let Him Go
[in der Endausscheidung: Russell Rowland: High and Inside
& Jamie Ford: Songs of Willow Frost (dt.: Die chinesische Sängerin)]

(2014)2015 Laura Pritchett: Stars Go Blue
[in der Endausscheidung: Craig Johnson: Any Other Name
& Carrie La Seur: The Home Place (aber Gewinner der Kategorie „Woman Writer“)]

(2015)2016 Tyler Enfield: Madder Carmine
[in der Endausscheidung: Shann Ray: American Copper
& Keith McCafferty: Crazy Mountain Kiss
& Craig Lancaster: This Is What I Want]

(2016)2017 Jonis Agee: The Bones of Paradise
[in der Endausscheidung: Larry Watson: As Good As Gone
& Craig Johnson: An Obvious Fact]

(2017)2018 Sebastian Barry: Days Without End (dt.: Tage ohne Ende)
[in der Endausscheidung: Jamie Ford: Love and Other Consolation Prizes
& Jamie Harrison: The Widow Nash]

(2018)2019 Susan Henderson: The Flicker of Old Dreams (auch Gewinner der Kategorie „Woman Writer“)
[in der Endausscheidung: Keith McCafferty: A Death in Eden: A Sean Stranahan Mystery
& Elisabeth Hyde: Go Ask Fannie
& Ellen Notbohm: The River by Starlight]

(2019)2020 Joe Wilkins: Fall Back Down When I Die
[in der Endausscheidung: Charlotte Hinger: The Healer’s Daughter
& Tosca Lee: The Line Between]

(2020)2021 Maxim Loskutoff: Ruthie Fear
[in der Endausscheidung: Callan Wink: August (dt.: Big Sky Country)
& Patrick Hicks: In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program]


Young Adult Book (Jugendbücher)

(2012)2013 Emily M. Danforth: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (auch Gewinner der Kategorie „Woman Writer“)
[in der Endausscheidung: Charlie Price: Dead Girl Moon
& Jacqueline Guest: Outcasts of River Falls]

(2013)2014 Blythe Woolston: Black Helicopters
[in der Endausscheidung: Marty Chan: Demon Gate
& Beth Goobie: The Throne]

(2014)2015 Brenda Baker: Camp Outlook
[in der Endausscheidung: Lynn Boughey & Peter Earnest: Harry Potter and the Art of Spying
& Regine Haensel: Queen of Fire]

(2015)2016 Treena Wynes: Am I the Only One?: Struggling Being a Teen
[in der Endausscheidung: Richard van Camp: A Blanket of Butterflies
& Richard van Camp: Three Feathers]

(2016)2017 Beth Goobie: The Pain Eater
[in der Endausscheidung: Angie Counios & David Gane: Along Comes a Wolfe: A Shepherd & Wolfe Mystery
& David A. Poulsen: And Then the Sky Exploded]

(2017)2018 Matthew P. Mayo: Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
[in der Endausscheidung: Colleen Nelson: Blood Brothers
& David A. Robertson: Strangers (aber Gewinner der Kategorie „Indigenous Writer“)]

(2018)2019 Colleen Nelson: Sadia
[in der Endausscheidung: Lucinda Stein: Bronte’s Thunder
& Angie Counios & David Gane: Wolfe in Shepherd’s Clothing: A Shepherd & Wolfe Mystery]

(2019)2020 Sue Farrell Holler: Cold White Sun
[in der Endausscheidung: Miriam Körner: Qaqavii
& Colleen Nelson: Spin]

(2020)2021 Julie Stielstra: Opulence, Kansas
[in der Endausscheidung: Matthew P. Mayo: Dilly
& Anna Rosner: Journeyman: The Story of NHL Right Winger Jamie Leach]


Children’s Book (Kinderbücher)

(2013)2014 Marion Mutala: Baba’s Babushka: A Magical Ukrainian Wedding
[in der Endausscheidung: Alison Lohans: Leaving Mr. Humphries]

(2014)2015 Cheryl Chad: Back to Batoche
[in der Endausscheidung: Jean Freeman: Do Trees Sneeze?
& Sandra Dallas: Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky]

(2015)2016 Georgia Graham: Cub’s Journey Home
[in der Endausscheidung: Sneed B. Collard III: Fire Birds: Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests
& Judith Silverthorne: Honouring the Buffalo: A Plains Cree Legend]

(2016)2017 Joan M. Wolf: Runs With Courage
[in der Endausscheidung: Ted Rechlin: Bears
& Avi (= Edward Irving Wortis): The Most Important Thing: Stories about Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers]

(2017)2018 Ellen Horowitz: What I Saw in Glacier: A Kid’s Guide to the National Park
[in der Endausscheidung: Caroline Stutson (Ill.: Teri Weidner): Blue Corn Soup
& Julie Gillum Lue: What I Saw in Grand Teton: A Kid’s Guide to the National Park]

(2018)2019 Rodney Gottula (Ill.: Arthur Lin): Double! Not Half
[in der Endausscheidung: Marion Mutala (Ill.: Olha Tkachenko): My Buddy, Dido!
& Donna Cochran (Ill.: Robert Rath): Prison Paws: Max’s Story]

(2019)2020 Ted Rechlin: Howl: A New Look at the Big Bad Wolf
[in der Endausscheidung: Susan Adrian: Forever Neverland
& Trevor Jones (Ill.: Ming Hai): Major: A Soldier Dog]

(2020)2021 Darby Karchut: On a Good Horse
[in der Endausscheidung: Colleen Nelson (Ill.: Tara Anderson): Harvey Holds His Own
& Marcia Melton: The Nighthawk’s Harmonica: A Montana Roundup Story]


Short Stories (Kurzgeschichten)

(2011)2012 Shann Ray: American Masculine: Stories (auch Gewinner der Kategorie „First Book“)
[in der Endausscheidung: Craig Lancaster: Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure]

(2012)2013 Dora Dueck: What You Get At Home
[in der Endausscheidung: Eric Freeze: Dominant Traits
& Barb Howard: Western Taxidermy]

(2013)2014 Nina McConigley: Cowboys and East Indians
[in der Endausscheidung: Steven Schwartz: Little Raw Souls
& Astrid Blodgett: You Haven’t Changed a Bit]

(2014)2015 Jamie Lisa Forbes: The Widow Smalls and other Stories
[in der Endausscheidung: Dave Margoshes: God Telling a Joke and Other Stories
& Rolli: I am Currently Working on a Novel]

(2015)2016 Joe Wilkins: Far Enough: A Western in Fragments
[in der Endausscheidung: Patrick Hicks: The Collector of Names
& Jerry McGahan: The Deer Walking Upside Down]

(2016)2017 Rick Bass: For a Little While
[in der Endausscheidung: Glen Chamberlain: All I Want Is What You’ve Got
& Steven Schwartz: Madagascar: New and Selected Stories]

(2017)2018 Aaron Parrett (Ill.: Seth Roby): Maple & Lead
[in der Endausscheidung: Giano Cromley: What We Build Upon the Ruins and other Stories
& Chauna Craig: The Widow’s Guide to Edible Mushrooms]

(2018)2019 (geteilt) Thomas McGuane: Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories
& Maxim Loskutoff: Come West and See: Stories
[in der Endausscheidung: James Trettwer: Thorn-Field]

(2019)2020 Katherine Koller: Winning Chance
[in der Endausscheidung: Emily Wortman-Wunder: Not a Thing to Comfort You
& Jennifer Wortman: This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.]

(2020)2021 Leona Theis: If Sylvie Had Nine Lives
[in der Endausscheidung: Barbara Miller Biles: Dear Hearts
& Lori Hahnel: Vermin]


Poetry (Lyrik)

(2008)2009 Craig Arnold: Made Flesh
[in der Endausscheidung: Patricia Goedicke: The Baseball Field at Night
& Isa Milman: Prairie Kaddish]

(2009)2010 William Notter: Holding Everything Down
[in der Endausscheidung: Melissa Kwasny & M.L. Smoker (Hg.): I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights
& Samuel Western: A Random Census of Souls: Prose Poems]

(2010)2011 Henry Real Bird: Horse Tracks
[in der Endausscheidung: Patrick Hicks: A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry
& Lowell Jaeger (Hg.): New Poets of the American West]

(2011)2012 Jim Harrison: Songs of Unreason
[in der Endausscheidung: Twyla M. Hansen & Linda M. Hasselstrom: Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet
& Joe Wilkins: Killing the Murnion Dogs]

(2012)2013 Joe Wilkins: Notes from the Journey Westward
[in der Endausscheidung: Nora Gould: I See My Love More Clearly From a Distance
& Minerva Allen: Nakoda Sky People]

(2013)2014 Sheryl Noethe: Grey Dog Big Sky
[in der Endausscheidung: Leo Dangel: Saving Singletrees
& Robert Pack: To Love That Well: New and Selected Poems 1954 – 2013]

(2014)2015 Shann Ray: Balefire
[in der Endausscheidung: Erin Belieu: Slant Six
& Ted Kooser: Splitting an Order]

(2015)2016 Juliana Aragón Fatula: Red Canyon Falling on Churches
[in der Endausscheidung: Robert Currie: The Days Run Away
& Diane Glancy: Report to the Department of the Interior
& Lois Red Elk: Why I Return to Makoce]

(2016)2017 Lowell Jaeger & Hannah Bissell (Hg.): Poems Across the Big Sky II: An Anthology of Montana Poets
[in der Endausscheidung: Greg Kosmicki: It’s As Good Here As It Gets Anywhere
& Richard Harrison: On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood]

(2017)2018 Emily Ursuliak: Throwing the Diamond Hitch
[in der Endausscheidung: Randall Gloege: The Bunch Grass Motel: The Collected Poems of Randall Gloege
& Greg Kuzma: Hose and Iron: Selected Poems]

(2018)2019 Sara Henning: View from True North
[in der Endausscheidung: Henrietta Goodman: All That Held Us
& Randy Lundy: Blackbird Song
& Joy M. Brown: Heavy]

(2019)2020 Jory Mickelson: Wilderness//Kingdom
[in der Endausscheidung: Shirley Camia: Mercy
& Catherine Hunter: St. Boniface Elegies]

(2020)2021 Kat Cameron: Ghosts Still Linger
[in der Endausscheidung: Dennis Cooley: The Bestiary
& Bertrand Bickersteth: The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies (aber Gewinner der Kategorie „First Book“)]