WILLA Award™ Winners!

Pam Tartaglio, 2013 Chair for the WILLA Literary Awards™for Women Writing the West, announces the Winners and Finalists for this year's 15th Annual WILLA Awards™. Drum roll, please!

 

Historical Fiction

Winner:  True Sisters by Sandra Dallas (St. Martin’s Press)
Finalist:  Tributary by Barbara K. Richardson (Torrey House Press)
Finalist:  Dance with a Gunfighter by Joanne Pence (Quail Hill Publishing)

Contemporary Fiction

Winner:  Theft by BK Loren (Counterpoint Press)
Finalist:  A Growing Season by Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl (University of New Mexico Press)

Creative Nonfiction

Winner:  Kissed by a Fox and Other Stories of Friendship in Nature by Priscilla Stuckey (Counterpoint Press)

Childrens/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction

Winner:  Liberty’s Christmas by Randall Platt (Texas Tech University Press)
Finalist:  The Quilt Walk by Sandra Dallas (Sleeping Bear Press)
Finalist:  Outcasts of River Falls by Jacqueline Guest (Coteau Books)

Poetry

Winner:  Steam Laundry by Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (Red Hen Press) 
Finalist:  Reluctant Traveler by Laurie Wagner Buyer (Seven Oaks Publishing)

Original Softcover Fiction (Trade or Mass Market)

Winner:  The Bones and the Book by Jane Isenberg (Oconee Spirit Press)
Finalist:  In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O’Connor McNees (Berkley/Penguin)
Finalist:  The House on Swiss Avenue by Irene Sandell (Eakin Press)

Scholarly Nonfiction

Winner:  Women in Wonderland:  Lives, Legends and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park by Elizabeth A. Watry (Riverbend Publishing)
Finalist:  Divinely Guided:  The California Work of the Women’s National Indian Association by Valerie Sherer Mathes (Texas Tech University Press)
Finalist:  Colorado Women:  A History by Gail M. Beaton (University Press of Colorado)

Congratulations all!

 

What are the WILLA Awards?

The WILLA Literary Awards™ honor the best in literature, featuring women's or girl's stories set in the West that are published each year. Women Writing the West, a non-profit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the Women's West, underwrites and presents the nationally recognized awards each year at the WWW Fall Conference. The awards are named in honor of Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Willa Cather, one of America's foremost writers.