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
Ingeborg Boyens–Executive Editor
Maurice Mierau–Associate Editor (Enfield & Wizenty)
Anita Daher–Associate Editor (Great Plains Teen Fiction)
Catharina de Bakker–Assistant to the Publisher (Production and Administration)
Alicia Brown–Marketing Director
Jewls Dengl–Comptroller (Finance and Bookkeeping)
Praise for Great Plains…
An excerpt from an interview with W.P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe and long-time judge for the Chapters-Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award:
BCBookWorld: 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.”
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
Encyclopedia of Manitoba
To The Grave: Inside A Spectacular RCMP Sting by Mike McIntyre
Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue by Russ Gourluck
A History of Manitoba Illustrated Series
A Store Like No Other: Eatons of Winnipeg by Russ Gourluck
Blue & Gold Edited by Bob Irving
Horses Don’t Lie by Chris Irwin
Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Nowhere to Run by Mike McIntyre
The Lake Edited by Jake MacDonald
Winnipeg: Heart of the Continent by Christopher Dafoe
Awards & Accolades (in alphabetical order)
Alberta Book Awards Georges Bugnet Novel of the Year
Winner – The 52nd Poem by Thomas Trofimuk
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
BC Library Association Awards for Children’s Literature
Red Cedar Award Finalist – Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
Stellar Award Finalist- Digging for Philip by Greg Jackson-Davis
Carol Shields City of Winnipeg Book Award
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 – Work of Idle Hands by Jonathon Platz
Golden Eagle Children’s Choice Award
Winner – Frost by Nicole Luiken
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Finalist – Greg Jackson-Davis (Digging for Philip)
Finalist - Bartley Kives A Daytripper’s Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada’s Undiscovered Province
McNally Robinson Book for Young People (various categories)
Winner – Breath of the Dragon by Diane Juttner Perreault
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
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 by Denis Combet
Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Award (various categories)
Winners:
A Place Out of Time by Alfred Silver
Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue by Russ Gourluck
Memory of a Living Disease by Maurice Mierau
A Store Like No Other by Russ Gourluck
A Reckoning of Angels by Stuart James Whitley
Winnipeg: Heart of the Continent by Christopher Dafoe
In Search of the Western Sea 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:
Storm Signals by Shelley Penziwol
The Bolshevik’s Revenge by Allan Levine
Sins of the Suffragette by Allan Levine
Manitoba Literary Awards Booksellers’ Choice Award
Winner – A History of Manitoba Illustrated Series
Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award
Finalist – The Gem Lakes by Rob Keough
Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award
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
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
Winner – Crimes of the Century: Manitoba’s Most Notorious True Crimes by Bill Redekop
Winner - The Lake by Jake MacDonald
Ontario Library Association Awards for Children’s Literature
White Pine Award Finalist – Gravity Journal by Gail Sidonie Sobat
Red Maple Award Finalist – Frost by Nicole Luiken
White Pine Award Finalist – A Winter’s Tale by Gail Sidonie Sobat
White Pine Award Finalist – Digging for Philip by Greg Jackson-Davis
Silver Birch Award Finalist – Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald
R. Ross Annett Award for Children’s Literature
Finalist– A Glass Darkly by Gail Sobat
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
