Arts and Science alumni, faculty shortlisted for Sask Book Awards

Thirteen graduates and faculty members of the University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science are finalists for this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards.

The authors are shortlisted in nine categories of the annual awards program, which celebrates outstanding books by Saskatchewan writers.

Authors nominated in 2023 include history graduate Naomi Hansen (BA’17), political studies graduate Anne Lazurko (BA’86, Cert’87), and Department of English / MFA in Writing Program faculty members Dr. Jeanette Lynes and Dr. Sheri Benning (BA’02), each of whom are up for multiple awards.

Winners of the 2023 Saskatchewan Book Awards will be announced at a gala on May 4.

View the complete list of shortlisted authors on the Saskatchewan Book Awards website.

College of Arts and Science shortlisted authors

Book of the Year Award

Only in Saskatchewan (Touchwood Editions) by Naomi Hansen (BA’17)

The Apothecary’s Garden (HarperCollins Publishers) by Dr. Jeanette Lynes (Professor, Department of English)

What is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press) by Anne Lazurko (BA’86, Cert’87)

Fiction Award

Danceland Diaries (Radiant Press) by dee Hobsbawn-Smith (MFA’14, MA’21)

Going to Beautiful (Stonehouse Publishing) by Anthony Bidulka (BA’83, BComm’91, BEd’91)

What is Written on the Tongue (ECW Press) by Anne Lazurko (BA’86, Cert’87)

First Book Award

Only in Saskatchewan (Touchwood Editions) by Naomi Hansen(BA’17)

Thickwood (Shadowpaw Press Premiere) by Gayle M. Smith (MFA’15)

Non-Fiction Award

I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like (Thistledown Press) by Dr. David Carpenter (DLitt’18, Professor Emeritus, Department of English)

The Acid Room (Anvil Press) by Jesse Donaldson and Dr. Erika Dyck (BA’98, MA’00, Professor, Department of History)

Poetry Award

Field Requiem (Carcanet Press Ltd.) by Dr. Sheri Benning (BA’02, Assistant Professor, Department of English)

Le Prix du Livre Français

mon écologie (Les Éditions du Blé) by Alasdair Rees (BA’15)

City of Saskatoon Book Award

Field Requiem (Carcanet Press Ltd.) by Dr. Sheri Benning (BA’02, Assistant Professor, Department of English)

I Never Met a Rattlesnake I Didn’t Like (Thistledown Press) by Dr. David Carpenter (DLitt’18, Professor Emeritus, Department of English)

The Apothecary’s Garden (HarperCollins Publishers) by Dr. Jeanette Lynes (Professor, Department of English)

Scholarly Writing Award

Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations (University of Nebraska Press) by Dr. Clinton N. Westman (Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology)

From Left to Right: Saskatchewan's Political and Economic Transformation (University of Regina Press) by Dale Eisler (BA’70)

Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920 (UBC Press) by Dr. Andrew Watson (Assistant Professor, Department of History)

Young Adult Literature Award

Mr. Universe (Orca Book Publishers) by Arthur Slade (BA’89)

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