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
T
ext 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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