Winners of the 35th annual Reading the West Book Awards, sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association and chosen by booksellers and readers, have been announced. The virtual event featuring acceptance remarks from each winning author can be seen here. The winners:
Fiction: The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Debut fiction: The Turtle House by Amanda Churchill (Harper)
Poetry: The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by Kinsale Drake (University of Georgia Press)
General nonfiction: By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle (Harper)
Memoir/biography: Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian's Journey Home by Chris La Tray (Milkweed Editions)
Picture book: The Ballad of Cactus Joe by Lily Murray, illustrated by Clive McFarland (Silver Dolphin Books)
Young reader/middle grade: Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen Books)
YA/teen: The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow (Delacorte Press)