Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards
Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards is a gala, held annually in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrating the best of Manitoban publishing from the previous year. Brave New Words celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2008.
Depending on the year, there are several awards conferred, as some of the awards are only bestowed biannually. The awards are co-produced by the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers and the Manitoba Writers' Guild.[1]
2010 awards
| Award |
Title |
Author/Winner |
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| McNally Robinson Book of the Year |
Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba |
Allan Levine |
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| Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction |
An American by Degrees: The Extraordinary Lives of French Ambassador Jules Jusserand |
Robert J. Young |
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| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book |
Talk |
Michael Nathanson |
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| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher |
Wild West: Nature Living on the Edge |
Heather Beattie and Barbara Huck |
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| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award |
Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History |
Esyllt W. Jones and Gerald Friesen |
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| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry |
Mama Dada |
Jan Horner |
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| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction |
an unexpected break in the weather |
Deborah Schnitzer |
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| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older |
Puppet |
Eva Wiseman |
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| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger |
Timmerman Was Here |
Colleen Sydor |
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| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design |
Dead on Arrival: Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba Journal 2009 |
Zach Pauls |
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| Best Illustrated Book of the Year |
All Our Changes: Images from the Sixties Generation |
Gerry Kopelow |
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| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award |
|
Ariel Gordon |
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2009 awards
| Award |
Title |
Author/Winner |
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| McNally Robinson Book of the Year |
"The Retreat" |
David Bergen |
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| Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction |
"Lord Selkirk: A Life" |
J.M. Bumsted |
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| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book |
"The Prairie Bridesmaid" |
Daria Salamon |
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| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher |
"Pauline Boutal, Destin d’artiste" |
Louise Duguay |
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| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award |
"Saint-Boniface 1908-2008 : reflets d’une ville" |
André Fauchon and Carol J. Harvey |
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| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry |
"this is a small northern town" |
Rosanna Deerchild |
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| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction |
"The Retreat" |
David Bergen |
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| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older |
"My Mother is a French Fry and Further Proof of my Fuzzed-Up Life" |
Colleen Sydor |
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| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger |
"Goose Girl" |
Joe McLellan and Matrine McLellan |
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| le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault |
"L’endroit et l’envers" |
Lise Gaboury-Diallo |
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| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design |
"Pauline Boutal, Destin d’artiste" |
Louise Duguay and Susan Chafe |
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| Best Illustrated Book of the Year |
"The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture" |
Darlene Coward Wight and Frank Reimer |
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| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award |
|
Michael Van Rooy |
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2008 awards
| Award |
Title |
Author/Winner |
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| McNally Robinson Book of the Year |
"Be Wolf" |
Wayne Tefs |
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| Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction |
"Canada’s Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler" |
Jim Shilliday |
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| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book |
"Wolf Tree" |
Alison Calder |
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| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher |
"The North End: Photographs by John Paskievich" |
John Paskievich |
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| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award |
"A Glowing Dream: A Memoir" |
Roland Penner |
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| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry |
"Wolf Tree" |
Alison Calder |
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| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction |
"The Penance Drummer and Other Stories" |
Lois Braun |
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| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older |
"Sandbag Shuffle" |
Kevin Marc Fournier |
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| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design |
"Take Comfort: the Career of Charles Comfort" |
designed by Frank Reimer Design, photographs by Ernest Mayer |
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| Best Illustrated Book of the Year |
"Take Comfort: the Career of Charles Comfort" |
designed by Frank Reimer Design, photographs by Ernest Mayer |
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| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award |
|
Carolyn Gray |
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2007 awards
| Award |
Title |
Author/Winner |
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| McNally Robinson Book of the Year |
"A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen" |
Faith Johnston |
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| Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction |
"A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen" |
Faith Johnston |
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| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book |
"A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen" |
Faith Johnston |
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| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher |
"A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen" |
Faith Johnston |
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| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award |
"Winnipeg Modern: Architecture 1945 to 1975" |
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edited by Serena Keshavjee |
| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry |
"Time out of Mind" |
Laurie Block |
awarded for the first time in 2007 |
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction |
"Beautiful Girl Thumb" |
Melissa Steele |
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| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older |
"Lost Treasures: True Stories of Discovery" |
Larry Verstraete |
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| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger |
"Raise a Little Stink" |
Colleen Sydor |
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| le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault |
"Manguiers têtus" |
Bathélemy Bolivar |
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| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design |
"Going Downtown: A History of Portage Avenue" |
Relish Design |
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| Best Illustrated Book of the Year |
"Early Masters: Inuit Sculpture 1949-1955" |
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| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award |
|
Anita Daher |
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