IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2022

The 2022 IPNE Book Awards represent the 9th year of our annual awards program, which takes as its mission rewarding excellence in publishing and helping readers find their way to books they will love. That year’s winners and finalists were honored at an online awards event in January of 2023.

Congratulations to IPNE’s 9th Annual
Book AwardS Winners & Finalists

Gold Denotes Category Winner

Book of the Year –
Nonfiction Winner

Story and Structure:A Complete Guide
By Leon Conrad

Aladdin’s Cave Publishing

 

Book of the Year –
Fiction Winner

Bloodroot
By Daniel V. Meier, Jr.

BQB Publishing

 

 

 

Literary Fiction

A Season Unknown

by Keith Cohen
k + p press

When Lions Roar

by Karen Leigh Gruber
Silk Dragon Press

Genre Fiction

Bloodroot

by Daniel V. Meier, Jr.
BQB Publishing

All Men Glad and Wise

by Laura C. Stevenson
Rootstock Publishing

Horodno Burning

by Michael Freed-Thall
Rootstock Publishing

Children’s Books

Forever Home

by Cathy Stenquist
Illustrated by Erica Leigh
Cathy Stenquist Books

Oceans Alive!

by Sheryl Davis
Illustrated by Daniel Fiore 
Pierce Press

Narrative Nonfiction

Alive in This World: Tracking Light
Through the Wilderness of Grief

By Lyssa Black Fassett
Darbytree Publishing

Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man’s
Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement

by Frederick Douglass Reynolds
MindStir Media

Every Life a Story: Natalie Jacobson Reporting

by Natalie Jacobson
Peter E. Randall Publisher

Informational Nonfiction

Story and Structure:
A Complete Guide

by Leon Conrad
Aladdin’s Cave Publishing

Feed Our Students Well: 18 Customer Service Concepts for Public School Food Service

by Kelly E. Middleton
Wheatmark

Lovable: How Women Can Heal Their Sensitive Hearts and Love as Their True Selves

by Andrea Paquette
Peter E. Randall Publisher

Poetry

Tender the River

by Matt W. Miller
Texas Review Press

Adrift:
The Love and Loss of Living with Dementia

by Gary Rainford
North Country Press

DESIGN

Trojan Horse

by S. Lee Manning
Encircle Publications

Eddie Vincent, Encircle Publications, Book Design
Deirdre Wait, High Pines Creative, Inc., Cover Design

June First

by Lori Michelle Hawks

Lori Michelle Hawks and Mohamed Daamouche,
Book and Cover Design

Olha Melnyk, Illustrations

IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2021

IPNE Book Awards 2021 was the 8th year we’ve held the event. Check out the 2021 winners, in a wide range of genres.

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IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2020

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IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2019

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IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2018

IPNE Book Awards 2018 was the 5th year we’ve held the event. Check out the 2018 winners, in a wide range of genres.

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