Great Plains Publications Ltd. is an independent publisher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and committed to bringing you the very best books from the Prairies – a region we believe has an abundance of quality writers. We also publish fiction from authors across the country in our imprints, Enfield & Wizenty and Great Plains Teen Fiction.
Our mailing address is:
345-955 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3G 0P9
Phone: (204) 475-6799
If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail our staff:
Gregg Shilliday • Publisher
Maurice Mierau • Associate Publisher and Editor (Enfield & Wizenty)
Anita Daher • Editor (Great Plains Teen Fiction)
Ingeborg Boyens • Executive Editor (Great Plains Publications)
Mel Marginet • Managing Editor (Production and Administration)
Susie Moloney • Marketing Director
Jewls Dengl • Comptroller (Finance and Bookkeeping)
Praise for Great Plains…
An excerpt from a 2006 interview with W.P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe and long-time judge for the Chapters-Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award:
- BC BookWorld: If you were writing a first novel today, what small press would you send it to?
- W.P. Kinsella: “I would go with Great Plains, a relatively new firm out of Winnipeg.
Their books are all beautiful and they give the impression that they really care about their product.”
W.P. Kinsella published Butterfly Winter with Great Plains imprint Enfield & Wizenty in 2011.
Morley Walker, Books Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, also wrote some kind comments: “Great Plains has a successful and intriguing mix of literary fiction and commercial non-fiction.”
Canadian Bestsellers
The Mosaic Village: An Illustrated History of Winnipeg’s North End by Russ Gourluck
Encyclopedia of Manitoba
Frost by Nicole Luiken
A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada’s Undiscovered Province by Bartley Kives
To The Grave: Inside A Spectacular RCMP Sting by Mike McIntyre
Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue by Russ Gourluck
Blue & Gold Edited by Bob Irving
A Store Like No Other: Eatons of Winnipeg by Russ Gourluck
Nowhere to Run: The Killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill by Mike McIntyre
The Lake Edited by Jake MacDonald
Horses Don’t Lie by Chris Irwin
Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Winnipeg: Heart of the Continent by Christopher Dafoe
A History of Manitoba Illustrated Series
Awards & Accolades (in alphabetical order)
Alberta Book Awards Georges Bugnet Novel of the Year
Winner – The 52nd Poem by Thomas Trofimuk
Alberta Readers’ Choice Award
Finalist: Chance to Dance for You by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction
Finalist: Andy DeJarlis: The Life and Times of an Old-Time Fiddler by Joe McIntosh
Finalist: Impact: A History of Disasters in Manitoba by Brock Holowachuk
Finalist: Trials and Tribulations by Jack Bumsted
Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel
Finalist – Work of Idle Hands by Jonathon Platz
Finalist – The Joining of Dingo Radish by Rob Harasymchuk
Finalist – The Blood Libel by Allan Levine
Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction
Finalist – To The Grave: Inside A Spectacular RCMP Sting by Mike McIntyre
Finalist – Nowhere to Run: The Killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill by Mike McIntyre
Association for Manitoba Archives Manitoba Day Award
Winner – Andy DeJarlis: The Life and Music of an Old-Time Fiddler by Joe Mackintosh
Aurora Award
Finalist– Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell
BC Library Association Awards for Children’s Literature
Red Cedar Award
Finalist – Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Stellar Award
Finalist– Dreamfire by Nicole Luiken
Finalist– Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Finalist– Frost by Nicole Luiken
Finalist– Digging for Philip by Greg Jackson-Davis
CAA Exporting Alberta Award
Finalist – Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Calgary Public Library Literary Foundation Literary Award
Finalist – Dreamfire by Nicole Luiken
CCBC Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy
Finalist - Dreamline by Nicole Luiken
Carol Shields City of Winnipeg Book Award
Finalist – Widows of Hamilton House by Christina Penner
Finalist – Sins of the Suffragette by Allan Levine
Chapters-Amazon.ca / Books in Canada First Novel Award
Finalist – The Blood Libel by Allan Levine
Finalist – Blue Becomes You by Bettina von Kampen
Finalist – The Expedition by Clayton Bailey
City of Edmonton Book Prize
Winner – The 52nd Poem by Thomas Trofimuk
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author
Finalist – Digging for Philip by Greg Jackson-Davis
Finalist – Widows of Hamilton House by Christina Penner
Finalist – Work of Idle Hands by Jonathon Platz
Frank O’Connor International Award for Short Fiction
Finalist – The Young in Their Country by Richard Cumyn
Golden Eagle Children’s Choice Award
Winner – Frost by Nicole Luiken
Finalist – Dreamfire by Nicole Luiken
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Finalist– Christina Penner (Widows of Hamilton House)
Finalist – Greg Jackson-Davis (Digging for Philip)
Finalist– Bartley Kives (A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada’s Undiscovered Province)
Manitoba Best Illustrated Book of the Year Award
Winner – Cartoon Charlie: The Life and Art of Animation Pioneer Charles Thorson by Gene Walz
Winner – In Search of the Western Sea: Selected Journals of Laverendrye by Denis Combet
Finalist – The Mosaic Village: An Illustrated History of Winnipeg’s North End by Russ Gourluck
Finalist – A Memory of Sky: A Pilot’s View of Canada’s Century of Flight by Jim Shilliday
Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Award (various categories)
Winners:
The Mosaic Village: An Illustrated History of Winnipeg’s North End by Russ Gourluck
A Place Out of Time by Alfred Silver
Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue by Russ Gourluck
Memoir of a Living Disease by Maurice Mierau
A Store Like No Other: Eaton’s of Winnipeg by Russ Gourluck
Winnipeg: Heart of the Continent by Christopher Dafoe
In Search of the Western Sea: Selected Journals of Laverendrye by Denis Combet
Cartoon Charlie: The Life and Art of Animation Pioneer Charles Thorson by Gene Walz
The Blood Libel by Allan Levine
Fur Trade Wars: The Founding of Western Canada by Jack Bumsted
Finalists:
Withershins by Susan Rocan
Picturing Manitoba: Legacies of the Winnipeg Tribune by Russ Gourluck
Storm Signals by Shelley Penziwol
In Search of the Western Sea: Selected Journals of Laverendrye by Denis Combet
The Bolshevik’s Revenge by Allan Levine
Sins of the Suffragette by Allan Levine
Trials and Tribulations by Jack Bumsted
A Reckoning of Angels by Stuart James Whitley
Manitoba Literary Awards Booksellers’ Choice Award
Winner – A History of Manitoba Illustrated Series
Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award
Finalist – Withershins by Susan Rocan
Finalist – The Gem Lakes by Rob Keough
Finaslist – Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award
Winner – A Dog’s Breakfast: A Chef’s Guide to Healthy Home Cooking for your Favorite Pooch by Jess Young
Winner – Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue by Russ Gourluck
Winner – The 52nd Poem by Thomas Trofimuk
Winner – Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Finalist – A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada’s Undiscovered Province by Bartley Kives
Finalist – Rats of Las Vegas by Lisa Pasold
Finalist – The Expedition by Clayton Bailey
Finalist – Last Unicorn on the Prairies by Rick McNair
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
Winner – Butterfly Winter by W.P. Kinsella
Winner – Crimes of the Century: Manitoba’s Most Notorious True Crimes by Bill Redekop
Winner– The Lake by Jake MacDonald
McNally Robinson Book for Young People (various categories)
Winner - Tori by Design by Colleen Nelson
Winner – Breath of the Dragon by Diane Juttner Perreault
Finalist – Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell
Finalist – Withershins by Susan Rocan
Finalist – The Serpent’s Spell by Rae Bridgman
Finalist – Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Finalist – Digging for Philip by Greg Jackson-Davis
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
Finalist - Louis Riel v. Canada: The Making of a Rebel by Jack Bumsted
Moonbeam Award for Young Adult Fiction
Gold Medal Winner
Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell
Dreamfire by Nicole Luiken
Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Silver Medal Winner
Signs of Martha by Sarah Raymond
Bronze Medal Winner
Chance to Dance for You by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Ontario Library Association Awards for Children’s Literature
White Pine Award
Honour Book – Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Finalist– Chance to Dance for You by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Finalist – A Winter’s Tale by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Finalist – Digging for Philip by Greg Jackson-Davis
Red Maple Award
Honour Book – Frost by Nicole Luken
Silver Birch Award
Finalist – Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Quebec Writers Federation McAuslan First Book Prize
Finalist – The Expedition by Clayton Bailey
Quebec Writers Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Finalist– Truth is Naked by Byron Rempel
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature
Finalist– A Glass Darkly by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Relit Award
Longlist – The Young in Their Country by Richard Cumyn
Longlist – This Book Will Not Save Your Life by Michelle Berry
Longlist – The Moon of Letting Go by Richard Van Camp
Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Award
Finalist – Tori by Design by Colleen Nelson
