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
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.
IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2020
IPNE Book Awards 2020 was the 7th year we’ve held the event. Check out the 2020 winners, in a wide range of genres.
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IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2019
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IPNE BOOK AWARDS 2018
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