2021 IPPY awards Regional MEDALISTS
US NORTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
Hidden Falls
by Kevin Myers
(Beaufort Books)
SILVER:
Cargill Falls
by William Lychack
(Braddock Avenue Books)
BRONZE:
Camper Girl
by Glenn Erick Miler
(Fitzroy Books)
US NORTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Block, Paper, Chisels: Prints from New Hampshire's Monadnock Region
by Kim Cunningham
(Bauhan Publishing)
SILVER:
At Home in the Northern Forest: Photographs of the Changing Vermont Landscape
by John Huddleston
(George F. Thompson Publishing)
BRONZE:
Ghost Signs: Clues to Downtown New York's Past
by Frank Mastropolo
(Schiffer Publishing)
MID-ATLANTIC – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
The Distance from Four Points
by Margo Orlando Littell
(University of New Orleans Press)
SILVER:
The Sound of Wings
by Suzanne Simonetti
(She Writes Press)
BRONZE:
The Other Morgans
by Carter Taylor Seaton
(KöehlerBooks)
MID-ATLANTIC – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
The Hunting Horn: What to Know and How to Know It
by Grosvenor Merle-Smith
(Dementi Milestone Publishing)
SILVER:
Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II
by Harvey Solomon
(Potomac Books)
BRONZE:
Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania
by Cody McDevitt
(The History Press)
SOUTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
Whereabouts
by Scott Gould
(KöehlerBooks)
SILVER:
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt
by Andrea Bobotis
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
BRONZE:
Blood Moon Rising
by Richard Conrath
(Gulf Shore Press)
SOUTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino
(Grove Press)
SILVER:
For the Hog Killing, 1979
by Tanya Amyx Berry
(Fireside Industries)
BRONZE:
A Smoky Mountain Boyhood: Memories, Musings, and More
by Jim Casada
(The University of Tennessee Press)
SOUTH – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
How Fire Runs
by Charles Dodd White
(A Swallow Press Book)
SILVER:
Found in Pieces
by George Rollie Adams
(Barn Loft Press)
BRONZE:
Stork Bite
by L.K. Simonds
(Self-Published)
SOUTH – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Destined to Die Young
by Sally A. Hoedel
(Self-Published)
SILVER:
Conversations with US - American Southwest: Two Wheels -- Fifty States -- Hundreds of Voices -- One America
by Chris Register
(Spoke & Word Books)
BRONZE:
The King of Highbanks Road: Rediscovering Dad, Rural America and Learning to Love Home Again
by Steve Watkins
(Pilgrim Publishing)
GREAT LAKES – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
A Small Earnest Question
by J. F. Riordan
(Beaufort Books)
SILVER:
A Place Remote
by Gwen Goodkin
(West Virginia University Press)
BRONZE:
You're in the Wrong Place
by Joseph Harris
(Made in Michigan Writers Series)
GREAT LAKES – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Chasing Indiana's Game: The Hoosier Hardwood Project
by Chris Smith and Michael E. Keating
(Indiana University Press)
SILVER:
The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
by Robert Silbernagel
(Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
BRONZE:
Midwest Futures
by Phil Christman
(Belt Publishing)
MIDWEST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
The River Jewel: A Letter Series Novella
by Kathleen Shoop
(Kathleen Shoop)
SILVER:
Everyone Dies Famous
by Len Joy
(BQB Publishing)
BRONZE:
Rock 'n Fire
by Mark Stallard
(Kaw Valley Books)
MIDWEST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81
by Cindy Wilson
(Beaver's Pond Press)
SILVER:
When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin
by Jerry Apps
(Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
BRONZE:
Groundbreakers, Rule-Breakers & Rebels: 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women
by Katie J. Moon; illustrated by Rori!
(Missouri Historical Society)
WEST-MOUNTAIN – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
Answer Creek
by Ashley E. Sweeney
(She Writes Press)
SILVER:
Nineteen Forty-Five
by Brian Striefel
(Hildebrand Books)
BRONZE:
A Noble Calling
by Rhona Weaver
(Two Oaks Press)
WEST-MOUNTAIN – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
A Corner of Space and Time: Lee Nye's Eddie's Club Portraits
by Jean Belangie-Nye
(Nye Imagery/The Design Cooperative)
SILVER:
A Desert Feast: Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage
by Caroline Niethammer
(University of Arizona Press)
BRONZE:
The Outlaw's Violin
by Nicholas Clapp
(Sunbelt Publications)
WEST-PACIFIC – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
Prospects of a Woman
by Wendy Voorsanger
(She Writes Press)
SILVER:
The Road to Delano
by John DeSimone
(Rare Bird)
BRONZE (tie):
The Aloha Spirit
by Linda Ulleseit
(She Writes Press)
Wild Rivers, Wild Rose
by Sarah Birdsall
(University of Alaska Press)
WEST-PACIFIC – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Food People (Are the Best People)
by Kristen Loken
(Acorn Press)
SILVER: California Indian Basketry: Icons of the Florescence
by Wayne A. Thompson and Eugene S. Meieran
(Sunbelt Publications)
BRONZE:
Where the World Begins: Sonoma Mountain Stories
by Arthur Dawson with Meg Beeler, Rebecca Lawton and Tracy Salcedo; photography by Ed Cooper, Scott Hess, Ulrich Kolbe, and others
(Sonoma Mountain Preservation)
CANADA-EAST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
The Woman in the Attic
by Emily Hepditch
(Flanker Press)
SILVER:
Kinmount
by Rod Carley
(Latitude 46)
BRONZE:
Dancing with Chairs in the Music House
by Caro Soles
(Inanna Publication)
CANADA-EAST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Finding Our Niche: Toward a Restorative Human Ecology
by Philp A. Loring
(Fernwood Publishing)
SILVER:
Prince Edward: A Four Season County
Photography by Peggy deWitt, Rob Garden, Phil Norton, and Jason Pettit
Text by Bryan Davies & Helen Dow
Creative direction by Gary & Joanie McGuffin
(Tagona Press, Sault Ste Marie)
BRONZE:
Quarantine: What is Old is New
by Ian Arthur Cameron, M.D.
(New World Publishing)
CANADA-WEST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
Fanonymous
by M.C. Joudrey
(At Bay Press)
SILVER:
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
by Valerie Dunsmore
(FriesenPress)
BRONZE:
Remy's Dilemma: Special Delivery
by Andrew Snook
(FriesenPress)
CANADA-WEST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art, and History
Edited by Martha Black, Lorne Hammond, and Gavin Hanke, with Nikki Sanchez
(Royal BC Museum)
SILVER:
Leading at the Edge: True Tales from Canadian Police in Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping Missions Around the World
by Ben J.S. Maure, M.S.C.
(Self-Published)
BRONZE:
A Paramedic's Tales: Hilarious, Horrible and Heartwarming True Stories
by Graeme Taylor
(Harbour Publishing)
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/PACIFIC RIM – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
Pelsaert's Nightmare
by Gregory Warwick Hansen
(The Grayson Press)
SILVER:
Haunting in Hartley
by Janice Tremayne
(Millport Press)
BRONZE:
When in Vanuatu
by Nicki Chen
(She Writes Press)
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/PACIFIC RIM – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
Tiwi: Art & Artists
Edited by Judith Ryan AM
(National Gallery of Victoria)
SILVER:
Unite
by Julia Steel
(Self-Published)
BRONZE:
The Neglected North Island: New Zealand's Other Half
by Mary Jane Walker
(A Maverick Traveller Ltd.)
EUROPE – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD:
In the Event of Contact
by Ethel Rohan
(Dzanc Books)
SILVER:
The Transaction
by Guglielmo D'Izza
(Guernica Edition)
BRONZE:
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
(Grove Press)
EUROPE – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD:
The Landlady Quintet: Chance Encounters and Lasting Impressions
by John H. Randle
(Words Indeed)
SILVER:
Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid
by Francisco Fernández de Alba
(University of Toronto Press)
BRONZE:
The Diary of Countess Anna Maria Berezowska: A True Story
Edited by John A. Stelnicki and Iris Hart
(Self-Published)
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