For the record…
Quentin picks six of nine categories
Quentin Mills-Fenn

The Winners
Brave New Words:
Manitoba Writing &
Publishing Awards
April 29, Fort Garry Hotel

McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award ($5,000) — The Time in Between, by David Bergen (McClelland & Stewart)

McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Older Category ($2,500) — Breath of the Dragon, by Diane Juttner Perreault (Great Plains Publications)

McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Younger Category ($2,500) — Camilla Chameleon, by Colleen Sydor (Kids Can Press)

John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer ($2,500) — Lori Cayer, author of Stealing Mercury (2004)

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher ($1,000) — The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg (Turnstone Press), edited by David Arnason and Mhari Mackintosh

Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction ($3,500) — The Time in Between, by David Bergen (McClelland & Stewart)

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction ($3,500) — Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut, by Peter Kulchyski (University of Manitoba Press)

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award ($5,000) — The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg, edited by David Arnason and Mhari Mackintosh (Turnstone Press)

The Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Writer ($1,500) — An Ordinary Decent Criminal, by Michael Van Rooy (Ravenstone, an imprint of Turnstone Press)

Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award — Poste restante: cartes poétiques du Sénégal, design by Marcelle Lussier (urbanink), cover design and illustrations by Anna Binta Diallo (Les Éditions du Blé)

Best Illustrated Book of the Year Award — Étienne Gaboury, interior and cover design by Faye Hellner and Jason Herzog, photography by Henry Kalen (Les Éditions du Blé)

Uptown book reviewer Quentin Mills-Fenn correctly picked six of the nine adult categories. He incorrectly forecast the non-fiction, best first book and book design awards.