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Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist 2005

(2005 Press Release)

BOOK OF THE YEAR

Birdsell, Sandra. Children of the Day (Random House Canada)

McLeod, Neal. Songs to Kill a Wîhtikow (Hagios Press)

Savage, Candace. Crows (Greystone Books)

Siggins, Maggie. Bitter Embrace (McClelland & Stewart)

Smith, Steven Ross. fluttertongue 3: disarray (Turnstone Press)

FICTION

Bidulka, Anthony. Tapas on the Ramblas (Insomniac Press)

Birdsell, Sandra. Children of the Day (Random House Canada)

Greenway, Eric. The Darkness Beneath All Things (Hagios Press)

Sapergia, Barbara. Dry (Coteau Books)

NONFICTION

Butala, Sharon. Lilac Moon (Harper Collins)

Deadman, Patricia, and Robin Laurence. Simple Bliss: the Paintings and Prints of Mary Pratt (MacKenzie Art Gallery)

Siggins, Maggie. Bitter Embrace (McClelland & Stewart)

Savage, Candace. Crows (Greystone Books)

Ward, Betty. A Community of Friends: The Quakers at Borden (Hagios Press)

Waiser, Bill. Saskatchewan: A New History (Fifth House)

FIRST BOOK

Campbell, Joe. Take Me Out of the Ball Game (Thistledown Press)

Chaput, John. Saskatchewan Sports Legends (Johnson Gorman Publishers)

Cuthand, Doug. Tapwe: Selected Columns of Doug Cuthand (Theytus Books)

Greenway, Eric. The Darkness Beneath All Things (Hagios Press)

Hamon, Tracy. This is Not Eden (Thistledown Press)

Harasymchuk, Rob. The Joining of Dingo Radish (Great Plains Publications)

Lawrence, Bonnie J., and Anna L. Leighton. Prairie Phoenix (Lilium philadelphicum): The Red Lily in Saskatchewan (Nature Saskatchewan)

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Bishop, Mary Harelkin. Tunnels of Tyranny (Coteau Books)

Glaze, Dave. The Light-Fingered Gang (Coteau Books)

Goertzen, Glenda. The Prairie Dogs (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)

Goobie, Beth.  Fixed (Orca Book Publishers)

Sawatzky, Neil. The Lake in the Middle of Town (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)

Silverthorne, Judith. The Secret of the Stone House (Coteau Books)

POETRY

Braidek, Carla. Carrying the Sun (Thistledown Press)

Clark, John Livingstone. Poems from a Broken Body (Thistledown Press)

McLeod, Neal. Songs to Kill a Wîhtikow (Hagios Press)

Nicholson, Wynne. Small Gifts (Thistledown Press)

Safarik, Allan. When Light Falls from the Sun (Hagios Press)

Wall, Kathleen. Time’s Body (Hagios Press)

REGINA BOOK AWARD

Chaput, John. Saskatchewan Sports Legends (Johnson Gorman Publishers)

Greenway, Eric. The Darkness Beneath All Things (Hagios Press)

Hamon, Tracy. This is Not Eden (Thistledown Press)

Ralko, Joe. Building Our Future: A People’s Architectural History of Saskatchewan (Red Deer Press)

Siggins, Maggie. Bitter Embrace (McClelland & Stewart)

Wall, Kathleen. Time’s Body (Hagios Press)

SASKATOON BOOK AWARD

Kerr, Don. The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor (University of Calgary Press)

Lawrence, Bonnie J., and Anna L. Leighton.  Prairie Phoenix (Lilium philadelphicum): The Red Lily in Saskatchewan (Nature Saskatchewan)

Sapergia, Barbara. Dry (Coteau Books)

Savage, Candace. Crows (Greystone Books)

Smith, Steven Ross. fluttertongue 3: disarray (Turnstone Press)

SCHOLARLY WRITING

Brace, G. Ian. Boulder Monuments of Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan Archeological Society)

Canadian Plains Research Center. Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.

Lawrence, Bonnie J., and Anna L. Leighton.  Prairie Phoenix (Lilium philadelphicum): The Red Lily in Saskatchewan (Nature Saskatchewan)

Roy, Wendy. Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Thatcher, Richard W. Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations (University of Toronto Press)

Waiser, Bill. Saskatchewan: A New History (Fifth House)

AWARD FOR PUBLISHING

Canadian Plains Research Center. Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.

Canadian Plains Research Center. Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century, Gordon L. Barnhart, ed.

MacKenzie Art Gallery. The Limits of Life: Arnulf Rainer and Georges Rouault, Timothy Long

Nature Saskatchewan. Prairie Phoenix (Lilium philadelphicum): The Red Lily in Saskatchewan, Bonnie J. Lawrence and Anna L. Leighton

University Extension Press. Dwarf Sour Cherries: A Guide for Commercial Production, Bob Bors and Linda Matthews

FIRST PEOPLES PUBLISHING

Allen Sapp Gallery. Through the Eyes of the Cree and Beyond, Dean Bauche (curator)

MacKenzie Art Gallery. Mary Aski-Piyesiwiskwew Longman, Patricia Deadman

Canadian Plains Research Center. Cree: Language of the Plains, Jean Okimasis

Turpel-Lafonde, Mary Ellen.  Maskeko-sakahikanihk: 100 Years for a Saskatchewan First Nation, M.E. Turpel-Lafond

PUBLISHING IN EDUCATION

Canadian Plains Research Center. The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.

Canadian Plains Research Center. Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century, Gordon L. Barnhart, ed.

Canadian Plains Research Center. Letters Home, David E. Smith, ed.

Hagios Press. Songs to Kill a Wîhtikow, Neal McLeod

Nature Saskatchewan. Prairie Phoenix (Lilium philadelphicum): The Red Lily in Saskatchewan, Bonnie J. Lawrence and Anna L. Leighton

Thistledown Press. The Alchemist’s Daughter, Eileen Kernaghan