2009
WILLA Literary Award Winners
Honoring books
published in 2008
The award is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, one of the country's foremost novelists. 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. The awards are presented at the WWW Fall Conference.
2010 WILLA Award Entry Form and Information
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS!
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2009 WILLA Winners Michele Longo Eder, Ellen Waterston,
Fern J. Hill and Barbara Linsley accepted their WILLA Awards
from Women Writing the West during its annual conference
held on the UCLA campus, September 11-13, 2009.
2009 WILLA Finalists Sandi Ault, Marcia Meredith Hensley,
Susan Cummins Miller and Irene "Cindy" Sandell received
their WILLA Awards from Women Writing the West during
its annual conference held on the UCLA campus,
September 11-14, 2009.2010 WILLA Award Entries
The WILLA Literary Awards, celebrating the finest books published about the Women’s West during 2009, are sponsored by Women Writing the West. Awards will be presented at the annual conference held in Wickenburg, Arizona, October 15-17, 2010.
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
