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06/19/2026

Tomorrow! If you're in Regina on Saturday, June 20, consider coming on down to the MacKenzie Art Gallery from 10:00 to 5:00 for Bazaart 2026 - there will be tonnes of great artisans to support and the weather is supposed to be perfect!

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

Congratulations SaskBooks members Thistledown Press and Shadowpaw Press for your High Plains Book Awards nominations!

Congratulations to the 2026 Finalists! Join us Saturday, October 3rd to find out who the winners will be!

Art & Photography:
Dolittlism: Art for Animals by Jim Baken
Brian Maguire: Outrage by Kathryn Shanley & Brandon Reintjes
The Price of Gold by Erin Woodward, photography by Nick Hubbard

Children's Picture Book:
A Home for Steamboat by Casey Rislov, illus. by Zachary Pullen
We Are the Scrappy Ones by Rebekah Taussig, illus. by Kirbi Fagan
Blake the Bear by Edie Vogel, illus. by Sarah Broesder
Bear Feels Sad by Karma Wilson, illus. by Jane Chapman

Fiction:
Battle Mountain by C. J. Box
American Mythology by Giano Cromley
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

First Book:
Crown by Evanthia Bromiley
Devouring Time by Todd Goddard
When Montana Outraced the East by Catharine Melin-Moser
Missing U by Ree Rozier

Indigenous Writer:
Kohkum's Royal Bannock by Wilfred Burton
Touching Grass by Kristy Jackson
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Memoir/Creative Nonfiction:
The Many Names of Robert Cree by Robert Cree, with Therese Greenwood
The Crazies by Amy Gamerman
No Man's Land by Becky Jensen

Nonfition:
Saving the Big Sky by Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, & John L. Wright, photography by Kevin League
Sea of Grass by Dave Hage & Josephine Marcotty
Sitting Bull's War by Paul L. Hedren
Winning the Earthquake by Lorissa Rinehart

Poetry:
The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste
All Wrong Horses On Fire that Go Away in the Rain by Sarain Frank Soonias
Pastoral, 1994 by Joe Wilkins
Your Mother's Bear Gun by Corrie Williamson

Short Stories:
Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand by Tim Bowling
Save Me, Stranger by Erika Krouse
Rag Pickers by Blaine Newton

Woman Writer:
Covington Hang by Lee Cooper
How I Bend Into More by Tea Gerbeza
The Science of Coincidence by Sheryl Noethe

Young Adult:
Away by Megan E. Freeman
K-Jane by Lydia Kang
Fireboy by Edward Willett

Youth/Middle Grade:
Bison: Community Builders and Grassland Caretakers by Frances Backhouse
Maggie Lou Meets Her Match by Arnolda Dufour Bowes
No Purchase Necessary by Maria Marianayagam

Big Sky Award:
Saving the Big Sky by Bruce A. Bugbee, Robert J. Kiesling, & John L. Wright, photography by Kevin League
If I Had Said Beauty by Tami Haaland
When Montana Outraced the East by Catharine Melin-Moser
Be a Man by Russell Rowland

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

This year, give your Dad a gift that he can open and enjoy all summer long. Available at these outlets and other places throughout Saskatchewan.

- Yellow Canary Books & Stationery in Gull Lake
- Eb's Source for Adventure in Saskatoon
- Tunnels of Moose Jaw
- McNally Robinson Booksellers - Saskatoon
- SaskMade Marketplace in Saskatoon
- Remai Modern in Saskatoon
- Turning the Tide Bookstore in Saskatoon
- Cowtown Kids Toy and Candy in Maple Creek
- Indigo Centre Circle & Eighth in Saskatoon, and Indigo Regina

SaskBooks Creative Saskatchewan Tourism Saskatchewan Travel Media Association of Canada

06/17/2026

Saskatchewan Publisher Spotlight– University of Regina Press
Marcel DeCoste, Director of Publications at University of Regina Press, introduces the only academic publishing house in Saskatchewan and shares his thoughts on publishing.

👉Watching the full conversation on YouTube at:
https://youtu.be/9O4QKgaN3g4

To learn more about University of Regina Press, visit uofrpress.ca/
To learn more about Saskatchewan publishers, please visit skbooks.com/

👀To watch more publisher stories, please check out our other great episodes:
– Publishing Hi-Lo Books with Heart: Lilac Arch Press: https://youtu.be/Bvmh69gb1ms
– Just Me and the Cat – Shadowpaw Press: https://youtu.be/4K9dEf1YBpo
– Exploring Métis Voices – Gabriel Dumont Institute Press: https://youtu.be/QI0A2PDntb0
– Babushka & Peace - Q&A with Marion Mutala of Millennium Marketing: https://youtu.be/dG1t-_39R3o
– Walking with GOD: Q&A with Jerald Wall: https://youtu.be/AmKFmzilKKs

06/17/2026

06/16/2026

📚SaskBooks' Weekly New Titles Picks: wîhtamawik / Tell Them: On a Life of Inspiration, by Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer, published by University of Regina Press.
👉Order copies by visiting skbooks.com/bookstore.
👉Visit reviews.skbooks.com for book reviews.

06/12/2026

🌈SaskBooks celebrates Pride month!
1. Q***r and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing, published by University of Regina Press
2. A Fondness for the Reckless: A Ten Past Midnight Story, published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing
3. Green, published by Radiant Press
4. Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity, published by University of Regina Press
5. Phases, published by Shadowpaw Press

Order copies by visiting skbooks.com/

06/11/2026

Teachers! Are you looking for ways to incorporate Métis history and culture in your classroom? GDI has developed lesson plans for many of our resources including Growing up Métis: Stories of Resiliency, available here: https://www.metismuseum.ca/resource.php/150831

Be sure to browse more lesson plans at: https://www.metismuseum.ca/browse/index.php?id=13160