Award Winners

Below you'll find our most recent award winning titles.

People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942
by Tom Jones, Michael Schmudlach, Matthew Daniel Mason, Amy Lonetree, and George A. Greendeer

Recent Awards

• Award of Merit – Leadership in History Awards
  American Association of State and Local History


• Winner (tie) - Best Overall Design
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards


• Winner - Multicultural Non-Fiction
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards


• Winner - Total Book Design
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association


• Winner - Midwest Regional Interest: Illustration
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association


• Winner - Photography: People
  USA National Best Book Awards


• Finalist - Best Interior Design
  USA National Best Book Awards

Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin's Early Settlers
by Marcia C. Carmichael

Recent Awards

• Winner - Midwest Regional Interest: Text
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association
• Honorable Mention - Ellis-Henderson Outdoor Writing Prize
  Council for Wisconsin Writers
• Winner - Annual Book Award
  American Horticultural Society


• Finalist - Home: Gardening
  USA National Best Book Awards

Tavern League: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars
by Carl Corey

Recent Awards

• Finalist - Coffee Table Book/Photography
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Winner - Illustration: Photography
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association
• Gold - Photography Book
  PubWest Design Awards
• Finalist - Photography: General
  USA National Best Book Awards

Vintage Wisconsin Gardens: A History of Home Gardening
By Lee Somerville, Foreword by Arnold R. Alanen

Recent Awards

• Winner - Cover Design: Paperback
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association

Beyond the Trees: Stories of Wisconsin Forests
By Candice Gaukel Andrews

Recent Awards

• Winner - Nature
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association
• Winner - Science/Nature/Environment
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards

History Afield: Stories from the Golden Age of Wisconsin Sporting Life
By Robert C. Willging

Recent Awards

• Winner - Recreation/Sports
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association

Creating Dairyland: How caring for cows saved our soil, created our landscape, brought prosperity to our state, and still shapes our way of life in Wisconsin
By Edward Janus

Recent Awards

• Finalist - Regional Non-Fiction
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Finalist - Best Cover Design Non-Fiction
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Freedom Train North: Stories of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin
By Julia Pferdehirt

Recent Awards

• Winner – Children's Non-Fiction
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association

Wisconsin's Own: Twenty Remarkable Houses
by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman; photographs by Zane Williams

Recent Awards

• Grand Prize Winner – Best Design
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Award of Merit – Leadership in History Awards
  American Association of State and Local History
• Winner – Total Book Design
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association
• Winner – Best Overall Design
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Winner – Coffee Table Book/Photography
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Finalist – Home: General
  USA National Best Book Awards
• Silver – Historical/Biographical
  PubWest Book Design Awards
• Honorable Mention – Kingery/Derleth Book-Length Nonfiction
  Council for Wisconsin Writers
• Winner – Architecture
  National Indie Excellence Awards
• Gold – Home and Garden
  "ForeWord" Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
• Honorable Mention – General Trade, Illustrated
  Chicago Book Clinic and Media Show

Barns of Wisconsin
by Jerry Apps; photographs by Steve Apps

Recent Awards

• Silver – Great Lakes, Best Regional Nonfiction
  Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)
• Finalist – Regional Nonfiction
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Finalist – Regional Nonfiction
  National Indie Excellence Awards
• Finalist – Regional
  "ForeWord" Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards

Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan
by Michael Edmonds

Recent Awards

• Winner - Wayland D. Hand Prize
  American Folklore Society
• Bronze - Book of the Year Award - Reference
  "ForeWord" Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
• Bronze – Great Lakes, Best Regional Nonfiction
  Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)
• Bronze – Historical/Biography Book
  PubWest Book Design Awards
• Finalist – Regional Nonfiction
  National Indie Excellence Awards

People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish
by Kathleen Schmitt Kline, Ronald M. Bruch, and Frederick P. Binkowski; photographs by Bob Rashid

Recent Awards

• Winner - General Trade/Non-Fiction/Four Color Internals
  Chicago Book Clinic and Media Show
• Winner – Environment: Political/Social
  USA National Best Book Awards
• Winner - Ellis/Henderson Outdoor Writing Award
  Council for Wisconsin Writers
• Gold - Book of the Year Award – Nature
  "ForeWord" Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
• Gold – Great Lakes, Best Regional Nonfiction
  Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY)
• Winner - Midwest Book Award – Nature
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association
• Gold – Sports/Fitness/Recreation Book
  PubWest Book Design Awards
• Winner – Outstanding Achievement Awards for 2009 publications
  Wisconsin Library Association
• Winner – Nature
  National Indie Excellence Awards
• Winner – Science/Nature/Environment
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Finalist – Best Overall Design
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards

The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State
by Harva Hachten and Terese Allen

Recent Awards

• Silver Medal – Cookbooks/General
  Living Now Book Awards
• Winner - Midwest Book Award – Cookbooks
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association
• Winner – Regional Cookbooks
  National Indie Excellence Awards
• Finalist – Cookbook and Home/Garden
  Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Finalist - Cookbooks: Regional
  USA National Best Book Awards

Old Farm: A History
by Jerry Apps; photographs by Steve Apps

Recent Awards

• Winner - General Trade/Non-Fiction/Four Color Internals
  Chicago Book Clinic and Media Show
• Winner - Ellis/Henderson Outdoor Writing Award
  Council for Wisconsin Writers
• Bronze Award Winner - Environment
  "ForeWord" Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
• Gold Award Winner - Regional Nonfiction, Great Lakes Region
  Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)
• Winner - Midwest Book Award, Nature
  Midwest Independent Publishers Association
• Finalist - History
  National Indie Excellence Awards
• Finalist - History/Historical Nonfiction Next Generation Indie Book Awards
• Finalist - History: General
  USA National Best Book Awards

A Short History of Wisconsin
by Erika Janik

Recent Awards

• Finalist - Regional Nonfiction
  National Indie Excellence Award
• Finalist - Regional
  "ForeWord" Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards
• Winner - Book Award of Merit
  Wisconsin Historical Society
• Finalist - History: United States
  USA National Best Book Awards

Wisconsin Magazine of History

Recent Awards

• Winner - Short Nonfiction for Mary Ellen Gabriel's article "Ne-rucha-ja: The Forgotten Tale of Frost's Woods and Charles E. Brown's Fight to Save it for the Ho-Chunk"
  Council for Wisconsin Writers
• Award of Merit - Leadership in History Awards
  American Association of State and Local History