2019
Network Sense, by Derek N. Mueller, co-published with CSU Open Press
2019 CCCC Research Impact Award
2018
Reclaiming Accountability, edited by Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks
2018 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award
Writing Program Architecture, by Jamie White-Farnham
2018 Excellence in Scholarship award, University of Wisconsin-Superior
Beautiful Flesh, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind
2018 Colorado Book Award, Anthology
Cámara Retórica, by Alexandra Hidalgo
2017 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award
Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos, by Mallory E. Matsumoto
Honorable mention, New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Prize 2018
Crossing Divides, edited by Bruce Horner and Laura Tetreault
2018 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize
Unitary Caring Science, by Jean Watson
Third place in the 2018 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Nursing Education/Continuing Education/Professional Development
2017
2017 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention
The Verging Cities, by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
2017 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
2017 CCCC Outstanding Book Award
2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award
2017 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction
Yellowstone National Park, by Bradly J. Boner
2017 Pub West Book Design Award (Bronze)
2017 Mormon History Association Book Award for Best Biography
2017 Ka Palapala Po'okela Aloha from Across the Sea Award
2017 15 Bytes Book Award (Finalist, Creative Nonfiction)
2017 Arizona Literary Award (Published Nonfiction)
2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist
2017 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award
“The Touch of Civilization”
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017
Navajo Textiles
Southwest Book of the Year, 2017
2016
Naming What We Know, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
2016 Council for Writing Program Administration Special Award for Outstanding Scholarship
2016 CCCC Research Impact Award
2016 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
2016 Utah Book Award for Poetry
2016 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Book Award
Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award finalist
2016 Colorado Book Award finalist
2015
Writing across Contexts, by Kathleen Blake Yancey, Liane Robertson, and Kara Taczak
2015 CCCC Research Impact Award
2015 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award
Society for the Anthropology of Work 2015 Book Prize
Very Like a Whale, by Edward M. White, Norbert Elliot, and Irvin Peckham
2015 CPTSC Award for Excellence in Program Assessment
2014
Life on the Rocks, by Bruce L. Smith
2014 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature & Environment and Design & Artistic Merit
Unsettling Assumptions, edited by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye
2014 Elli-Kaija Kongas Maranda Prize, honorable mention
Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers, by Jackie Grutsch McKinney
2014 International Writing Centers Association Best Book Award
Yellowstone Wildlife, by Paul Johnsgard with photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen
2014 Nebraska Book Award, Non-Fiction: Natural History
Sacred Darkness, edited by Holley Moyes
2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Yellowstone Wildlife, by Paul Johnsgard with photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen
2014 Southwest Book Design Award, Trade Book Illustrated
Soils, Climate, and Society, edited by John D. Wingard and Sue Eileen Hayes
2014 Southwest Book Design Award, Scholarly and Technical
2014 Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Scholarship Award
2013
Books, Bluster and Bounty, by Susan Swetnam
2012 Idaho Library Association's Book of the Year
Colorado Women, by Gail M. Beaton
2013 WILLA Literary Awards Finalist, from Women Writing the West
Santa Rita del Cobre, by Christopher J. Huggard and Terrence M. Humble
Clark C. Spence Award, from the Mining History Association
The Menial Art of Cooking, edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, designed by Daniel Pratt
Silver Award, Academic/Non-Trade Book; 2013 PubWest Book Design Awards
The House on Lemon Street, by Mark Rawitsch
Crader Family Book Prize in American Values
Coal in our Veins, by Erin Ann Thomas
2012 Evans Biography and Handcart Award.
I Hope I Join the Band, by Frankie Condon
2013 Top Five "Must Reads"
Educators Award Committee of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International
Technologies of Wonder, by Susan H. Delagrange
2013 CCCC Outstanding Book Award
2013 CCCC Research Impact Award
2013 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award
2012
Santa Rita del Cobre, by Chris Huggard and Terrence Humble
Howard Bryan Western History Award
Southwest Book Award, from the Border Regional Library Association
Helen Ring Robinson, by Pat Pascoe
Colorado Book Award finalist
Coffee and Community, by Sarah Lyon
Society for Economic Anthropology Book Award
Through the Schoolhouse Door, by Paddy Bowman and Lynn Hamer
Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize 2012
Writing Centers and the New Racism, edited by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan
2012 International Writing Association Best Book Award
A History of Utah Radicalism, by John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito
2012 Best Utah History Book Award
Technologies of Wonder, by Susan H. DeLagrange
2012 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Diverse by Design, by Christopher Schroeder
2012 CCCC Research Impact Award
The Trail of Gold and Silver, by Duane Smith
Clark C. Spence Award, Co-winner, from the Mining History Association
Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City," by Alcira Duenas
Thomas McGann Award, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Jonathan Rees, author of Representation and Rebellion
Annual Historic Preservation Award from the Pueblo County Historical Society
2012 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award
2011
In the Blood, by Burt Feintuch and Gary Samson
2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal
2011 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship, Honorable Mention
2010
Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens, by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi with Kenichiro Shimada, photographs by Hikaru C. Iwasaki
Honor title for Adult Non-Fiction Literature of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Award
Southwest Book Design & Production Awards: Best Illustrated Trade Book and Best in Show
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt, by Ronald G. Watt
2009 Evans Handcart Award
Exploring Desert Stone, by Steven K. Madsen
Southwest Books of the Year, Best Reading of 2010
The Activist WPA, by Linda Adler-Kassner
2010 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award
Before the Manifesto, by Melissa L. Milewski
2010 Western Association of Women Historians Kanner Award
Comb Ridge and Its People, by Robert S. McPherson
2009 Utah Book Award, Nonfiction
2009
The River Knows Everything, by James M. Aton
2009 Finalist, Utah Book Award, Nonfiction
Dangerous Writing, by Tony Scott
2009 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship, Honorable Mention
Representations, by LuMing Mao and Morris Young
2009 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Honorable Mention
Mormonism's Last Colonizer, by William B. Smart
2009 Evans Handcart Award
2009 Mormon History Association Best Biography Award
Mrs. Ramsay's Knee, by Idris Anderson
2009 XXXIV Pushcart Prize
The Meaning of Folklore, by Simon J. Bronner
2009 Runner-up Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History
2008
Hard as the Rock Itself, by David Robertson
Kniffen Award by the Pioneer American Society
Kevin Holdsworth, author of Big Wonderful
2009 Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship in fiction
The Arc and the Sediment, by Christine Allen-Yazzie
2008 Winner, Utah Book Award, Fiction
2007 Winner, Independent Publishers Silver Medal
2007 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition Publication Prize
Bear River, by Craig Denton
2008 Finalist, Utah Book Award, Nonficttion
Haunting Experiences, by Diane E. Goldstein, Jeannie Banks Thomas, and Sylvia Ann Grider
2008 Brian McConnell Book Award, the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
Religion, Politics, and Sugar, by Matthew Godfrey
2008 Best First Book Award, the Mormon History Association
2007
White Man's Paper Trail, by Stan Hoig
Oklahoma Book Award finalist, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Recollections of Past Days, edited by Sandra Ailey Petree
2007 Best Documentary Book in Utah History, Smith-Pettit Foundation
2007 Evans Biography Award
2006
Distant Bugles, Distant Drums, by Flint Whitlock
Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
Proverbs Are the Best Policy, by Wolfgang Mieder
2006 Wayland D. Hand Award, Best Publication in Folklore and History
Polygamy on the Pedernales, by Melvin C. Johnson
2006 Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association
The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847, by Ronald Barney
2006 Best Utah Documentary History Book, Utah State Historical Society
Castle Valley, America, by Nancy Taniguchi
2006 Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History
2004 Best Utah History Book, Utah Historical Society
2005
Prairie Ghost, edited by Richard McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara, and Henry M. Reeves
Outstanding Book for 2005, The Wildlife Society
Pronghorn, edited by Bart W. O'Gara and Jim D. Yoakum
Editorship Book Award for 2005, The Wildlife Society.
Mapping Identity, by Laura Woodworth-Ney
Finalist, Idaho Book Award, Idaho Library Association
Native Pathways, edited by Brian Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill
Arrell M. Gibson Award for the Best Essay of the Year on the History of Native Americans, Western History Association, for Jessica Cattelino's chapter, "Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of Twentieth-Century Seminol Economic Development"
Industrializing the Rockies, by David A. Wolff
Clark Spence Award for Excellence in Mining History, Mining History Association
The Boys of Winter, by Charles J. Sanders
Ullr Award for literature, International Ski History Association
Rain in the Valley, by Helen Papanikolas
2005 Utah Book Award in Fiction, the Utah Center for the Book
High, Wide, and Handsome, edited by Roy Webb
2005 Best Books-Southwest Books of the Year, Tucson-Pima Public Library in partnership with the Friends of the Tucson-Pima Library and the Arizona Historical Society
Junius and Joseph, by Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister
2005 Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association
2005 Smith Pettit Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association
2004
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West, by Rick A. Adams
Colorado Book Award, Best Guidebook Category
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West, by Rick A. Adams
Southwest Books of the Year 2004 Selection
Boomtown Blues, by Andrew Gulliford
Colorado Book Award, Co-Winner, Colorado and the West Category
The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands, by Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice, and Don S. Rice
A Choice 2004 Outstanding Academic Book
The Anguish of Snails, by Barre Toelken
2004 Chicago Folklore Prize
Listening for a Life, by Patricia Sawin
2004 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society
A Widow's Tale, edited by Charles M. Hatch and Todd Compton, Introduction, Notes, and Register, by Todd Compton
2004 Best Documentary Award, Mormon History Association
2004 WILLA Literary Award Finalist, Women Writing the West
The Center Will Hold, edited by Michael M. Hatch and Joyce Kinkead
2004 WPA Best Book Award, the Council for Writing Program Administrators
2004 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book on Writing Center Research
2003
From Imperial Myth to Democracy, by Lawrence W. Beer and John M. Maki
A Choice 2003 Outstanding Academic Book
Disaster at the Colorado, by Charles W. Baley
2003 Second Prize for Best Non-Fiction, Westerners International
Pedro Pino, by E. Richard Hart
2003 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award, Historical Society of New Mexico
English Composition as a Happening, by Geoffrey Sirc
2003 W. Ross Winterowd Award, Most Outstanding Book in Composition Theory
2002
Colcha, by Aaron Abeyta
American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation)
Noise from the Writing Center, by Elizabeth H. Boquet
2002 Outstanding Research and Publication Award, NE Writing Centers Association
Mormon Healer and Folk Poet, by Margaret K. Brady
2002 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society
One Side by Himself, by Ronald O. Barney
2002 Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association
2002 Evans Biography Award