This week, we are celebrating that Dawn Dumont and The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour have been shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards! Congratulations to Dawn and her fellow nominees!
Fiction Award
Probably Ruby (Doubleday Canada), by Lisa Bird-Wilson
Only If We’re Caught (Thistledown Press), by Theressa Slind
August Into Winter (McClelland & Stewart), by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour (Freehand Books), by Dawn Dumont
Saltus (Nightwood Editions), by Tara Gereaux
Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award
awâsis —kinky and disheveled (Brick Books), by Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer
Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship (University of Toronto Press), by Allyson D. Stevenson
Iskocēs Tipiskak: A Spark in the Dark (John Langan), by John Langan
20.12 m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Metis (GDI Press), by Arnolda Dufour Bowes
The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour (Freehand Books), by Dawn Dumont
You can find the full shortlists for the 2022 Saskatchewan Book Awards here. The awards will be presented at an online ceremony in June.