The Midwest Book Awards are presented by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting independent publishers in the Midwest.
Five of NDSU Press’s recent titles are listed as finalists in seven of the Midwest Book Awards categories.
The publications, by category, are:
Nonfiction: Anthologies
• “Rethinking Rural: Reflections on Today, Insights for Tomorrow,” ed. Matt Ehlman
Nonfiction: History
• “In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina, 1795-1905,” by John M. Shaw
• “Dust Yourself Off: The Gravel Road to a Good Life,” by Tricia Velure and Tom Sandhei
Nonfiction: Social Science/Political Science/Culture
• “Rethinking Rural: Reflections on Today, Insights for Tomorrow,” ed. Matt Ehlman
• “In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina, 1795-1905,” by John M. Shaw
Poetry: Regional
• “Gratitude with Dogs under Stars,” by Debra Marquart
• “Forgotten Frequencies,” by Brendan Stermer
Gold winners will be announced in person at the 34th Annual Midwest Book Awards gala held on June 22, 2024, at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Midwest Book Awards are presented by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting independent publishers in the Midwest. The awards are open to all books published in the twelve-state region of the Midwest in the previous year.
MiPA founders organized the first Midwest Book Awards in 1989, and today the Midwest Book Awards is one of the longest running literary recognition programs in the country. Judges for the prestigious literary program are booksellers, university staff and librarians who are subject matter experts and collectively hail from each of MiPA’s twelve states.
The June 22, 2024, event is open to the public. View all finalists and find out more about the event on the MiPA website.
NDSU Press was established in 1950 by the State Board of Higher Education as the publishing arm of the Institute of Regional Studies. Since 2019, through the Certificate in Publishing, students gain working knowledge of the history, business and practice of small press and university press publishing. The dual mission of NDSU Press is to publish scholarly and literary books and to provide experiential learning for the next generation of publishers.
