2007
WILLA Literary Award Winners
Honoring books
published in 2006
Awarded annually for outstanding literature featuring women's stories set in the West, the WILLA Literary Awards are chosen by a distinguished panel of twenty-one professional librarians.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS!
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Contemporary FictionWINNER: The Girl from Charnelle by K.L. Cook (HarperCollins) FINALIST: Quarry by Susan Cummins Miller (Texas Tech University) FINALIST: Bleeding
Hearts by Susan Wittig Albert (Berkley Publishing Group) |
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Creative NonfictionWINNER: Montana Women Writers: Geography of the Heart, Caroline Patterson, Editor with introduction by Sue Hart (Farcountry Press) FINALIST: At Home in the Vineyard by Susan Sokol Blosser (University of California Press) FINALIST: Drawing
to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father by
Jodi Varon (University of Missouri Press) |
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Scholarly NonfictionWINNER: Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights by Diane Eickhoff (Quindaro Press) FINALIST: Touching Tomorrow: The Emily Griffith Story by Debra B. Faulkner (Filter Press) |
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Historical FictionWINNER: The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook (Viking) FINALIST: A Clearing in the Wild by Jane Kirkpatrick (WaterBrook/Press/Random House) FINALIST: Augusta
Locke by William Haywood Henderson (Viking) |
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PoetryWINNER: To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present Connie Wanek, Joyce Sutphen, Thom Tammaro, Editors (New Rivers Press) FINALIST: Adobe Odes by Pat Mora (University of Arizona Press) FINALIST: Across
the High Divide by Laurie Wagner Buyer (Ghost Road Press) |
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Original Softcover Fiction (Trade or Mass Market)WINNER: Hallowed Ground by Lori G. Armstrong (Medallion Press) FINALIST: Rain
of Fire by Linda Jacobs (Medallion Press) |
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Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & NonfictionWINNER: Harvey Girl by Sheila Wood Foard (Texas Tech University Press) FINALIST: Call
Me the Canyon by Ann Howard Creel (Brown Barn Books)
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The WILLA Literary Awards, celebrating the finest books published about the Women’s West during 2006, are sponsored by Women Writing the West . Awards and trophies were presented to winners and finalists at the annual conference held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 19-21, 2007.
The 2007 WILLA Literary Awards Winners include: back row, K.L. Cook and Lori G. Armstrong; front row, Caroline Patterson, Elizabeth Crook, Thom Tammaro and Sheila Wood Foard
The 2007 WILLA Literary Awards Finalists include, left to right: Debra B. Faulkner, Susan Cummins Miller, William Haywood Henderson, Jane Kirkpatrick, Laurie Wagner Buyer and Ann Howard Creel
2008 WILLA Award Entries
The entry period for the 2008 WILLA Awards is closed. We will soon publish information about the 2009 WILLA Awards, honoring books published in 2008.
Need help deciding what category your book belongs in or if it's a good fit for the WILLAs? Check out our rubrics for more details on what we're looking for in each category.
Children's/YA:
Overview, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Picture Book
