Two Canadian authors are among the winners of this year’s High Plains Book Awards. The winner of the Indigenous writer category, Arnolda Dufour Bowes, also won the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for her short fiction collection.

The awards recognize regional authors and literary works that examine and reflect life on the High Plains – Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in Canada, and the U.S. states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas.

There were 13 Canadian titles on the short lists for this year’s awards, which are granted across 12 categories.

The Canadian winners are:

Children’s Book

• Dear Peter, Dear Ulla by Barbara Nickel (Thistledown Press)

Indigenous Writer

• 20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis by Arnolda Dufour Bowes (Gabriel Dumont Institute Press)

The winners were announced on October 8 in Billings, Montana.