06/18/2025
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2025 finalists!
Art & Photography:
BEAD TALK (ed. Carmen L. Robertson, Judy Anderson, & Katherine Boyer)
EDWARD S. CURTIS, PRINTING THE LEGENDS (Dr. Larry Len Peterson)
WESTWARD & MISERABLE (John Henry Haseltine)
Big Sky Award:
BECOMING LITTLE SHELL (Chris La Tray)
BIRDING FOR BOOMERS (Sneed B. Collard III)
BLACK ROBES ENTER COYOTE'S WORLD (Sally Thompson)
ELK LOVE (Lynne Spriggs O'Connor)
Fiction:
ARROYO CIRCLE (JoeAnn Hart)
THE ENTIRE SKY (Joe Wilkins)
NOT THE KILLING KIND (Maria Kelson)
First Book:
THE BOY WHO PROMISED ME HORSES (David Charpentier)
A KIND OF MADNESS (Uche Okonkwo)
WHAT FILLS YOUR HOUSE LIKE SMOKE (E. McGregor)
Indigenous Writer:
BECOMING LITTLE SHELL (Chris La Tray)
THE CASE OF THE PILFERED PIN (Michael Hutchinson)
TANNING MOOSEHIDES (Tommy Bird (with Miriam Koerner))
Memoir/Creative Nonfiction:
ELK LOVE (Lynne Spriggs O'Connor)
GRIZZLY CONFIDENTIAL (Kevin Grange)
A PLACE CALLED YELLOWSTONE (Randall K. Wilson)
A WOMAN AMONG WOLVES (Diane K. Boyd)
Nonfiction:
BIRDING FOR BOOMERS (Sneed B. Collard III)
BLACK ROBES ENTER COYOTE'S WORLD (Sally Thompson)
THE HORSE (Timothy Winegard)
IN THE COUNTRY OF THE KAW (James H. Locklear)
Poetry:
THE CLOUD PATH (Melissa Kwasny)
EARL'S OWN DAKOTA ODYSSEY (Bruce Roseland)
MOTHER (m. s. RedCherries)
THESE CREATURES OF THE DAY (Marc Beaudin)
Short Stories:
ALL GOD'S SPARROWS (Leslie Budewitz)
HARBOR LIGHTS (James Lee Burke)
PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST (Patrick Thomas Henry)
Woman Writer:
ALL THAT'S LEFT (Lisa Guenther)
A ROAD MAP FOR FINDING WILD HORSES (Trisia Eddy Woods)
WHERE MANGOES FALL (Laure Dominguez)
Children's Picture Book:
ABBY THE ANTELOPE (Edie Vogel, Sarah Broesder (illus.))
BUTTERFLY ON THE WIND (Adam Pottle, Ziyue Chen (illus.))
LIKE NO OTHER (Sneed B. Collard III, Christopher Silas Neal (illus.))
Youth/Middle Grade:
THE HORSE WHO CARRIES THE STARS (Darby Karchut)
THE UNLIKELY HERO (Rick McIntyre)
UNSINKABLE CAYENNE (Jessica Vitalis)
Young Adult:
CRICKET'S CHOICE (Sheila Ruble)
DUST (Alison Stine)
TRISTAN & LANCELOT (James Persichetti)