Recent Award Winners and Finalists

We are happy to share the latest award winners and finalists among our Women Writing the West members. Congratulations! 

Janet Dawson

Janet Dawson 

Bit Player: A Jeri Howard Mystery (Perseverance Press) – Golden Nugget Award, Left Coast Crime

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Kathleen Ernst

Kathleen Ernst

The Heirloom Murders:  A Chloe Ellefson Mystery (Midnight Ink) – 2012 Anne Powers Prize for Best Novel by a Wisconsin Writer, Council for Wisconsin Writers

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Patricia Frolander

Patricia Frolander

Married into It (High Plains Press) – Western Heritage Award (Wrangler), Outstanding Poetry Book, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

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Tammy Hinton

Tammy Hinton

Unbridled (Roots and Branches) – Spur Award Finalist for Best First Novel, Western Writers of America

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Meg Mims

Meg Mims

Double Crossing (Astraea Press) –Spur Award Winner for Best First Novel, Western Writers of America

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Nancy Oswald

Nancy Oswald 

Rescue in Poverty Gulch (Filter Press) Spur Award Finalist in Juvenile Fiction

Western Writers of America

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Ann Parker

Ann Parker 

Mercury’s Rise (Poisoned Pen Press) – Winner of the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award

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Emerita Romero-Anderson

Emerita Romero-Anderson

Milagro of the Spanish Bean Pot (Filter Press) – Western Heritage Book Award for Outstanding Juvenile Literature, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum