WILLA Literary AwardWinner

Given by Women Writing the West

Other Names: WILLA Award, WILLA Award Finalist
133 Works 0 Books
The award is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, one of the country's foremost novelists. The awards are presented by Women Writing the West at the WWW Fall Conference.
Stages:
All, Winner (133), Finalist (199)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2020 (6), 2019 (7), 2018 (6), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2015 (5), 2014 (7), 2013 (7), 2012 (7), 2011 (7), 2010 (7), 2009 (7), 2008 (7), 2007 (7), 2006 (7), 2005 (7), 2004 (7), 2003 (7), 2002 (7), 2001 (5), 2000 (1)

Winner 133

WorkCategoryYear
Someplace to Call Home by Sandra DallasChildren's Fiction & Nonfiction2020
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan StradalContemporary Fiction2020
I Am a Stranger Here Myself by Debra GwartneyCreative Nonfiction2020
The Glovemaker by Ann WeisgarberHistorical Fiction2020
Arequipa Sanatorium: Life in California’s Lung Resort for Women by Lynn DowneyScholarly Nonfiction2020
Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights by Randall PlattYoung Adult Fiction and Nonfiction2020
Hardscrabble by Sandra DallasChildren's Fiction and Nonfiction2019
The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan by Patricia BaileyChildren's/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2019
The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan HendersonContemporary Fiction2019
My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir by Mary Budd FlitnerCreative Nonfiction2019
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth CrookHistorical Fiction2019
See Also Proof: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery by Larry D. SweazyOriginal Softcover (Trade or Mass Market)2019
Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924 by Heather MayerScholarly Nonfiction2019
Zetty by Debra Whiting AlexanderContemporary Fiction2018
Women artists of the Great Basin by Mary Lee FulkersonCreative Nonfiction2018
Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival by Matthew P. MayoHistorical Fiction2018
Hidden Ones: A Veil Of Memories by Marcia FineOriginal Softcover Fiction2018
Rock • Tree • Bird by Twyla M. HansenPoetry2018
Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages by Candace WellmanScholarly Nonfiction2018
Soldier Sister, Fly Home by Nancy Bo FloodChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2017
Piano Tide: A Novel by Kathleen Dean MooreContemporary Fiction2017
Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Clarke ModerowCreative Nonfiction2017
Basque Moon: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery by Julie WestonHistorical Fiction2017
Demimonde by Kierstin BridgerPoetry2017
Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses 1802-1876 by Jennifer J. LawrenceScholarly Nonfiction2017
Shadow of the Hawk by KS JonesChildren's/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2016
Firebreak: A Mystery (Josie Gray Mysteries) by Tricia FieldsContemporary fiction2016
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah NordhausCreative nonfiction2016
The Bookseller by Cynthia SwansonHistorical fiction2016
Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Diane GlancyPoetry2016
Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest by Lesley Poling-KempesScholarly nonfiction2016
Searching for Silverheels by Jeannie MobleyChildren's/Young adult fiction and nonfiction2015
Point of Direction by Rachel WeaverContemporary fiction2015
Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World by Sharman Apt RussellCreative nonfiction2015
A Quilt for Christmas by Sandra DallasHistorical fiction2015
A Light in the Wilderness: A Novel by Jane KirkpatrickOriginal softcover fiction2015
Written in Stone by Rosanne ParryChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2014
Bone Horses : a novel by Lesley Poling-KempesContemporary Fiction2014
Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands (University of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series) by Sara LoewenCreative Nonfiction2014
Dollybird by Anne LazurkoHistorical Fiction2014
Junction, Utah by Rebecca LawtonOriginal Softcover Fiction2014
Losing the Ring in the River (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) by Marge SaiserPoetry2014
Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890 (Plains Histories) by Linda W. ReeseScholarly Nonfiction2014
Liberty’s Christmas by Randall Beth PlattChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2013
Theft: A Novel by BK LorenContemporary Fiction2013
Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature by Priscilla StuckeyCreative Nonfiction2013
True Sisters by Sandra DallasHistorical Fiction2013
The Bones and the Book by Jane IsenbergOriginal Softcover Fiction2013
Steam Laundry by Nicole Stellon O'DonnellPoetry2013
Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legends, and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park by Elizabeth A. WatryScholarly Nonfiction2013
The Year We Were Famous by Carole Estby DaggChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2012
Raising Wrecker: A Novel by Summer WoodContemporary Fiction2012
Rightful Place (Voice in the American West) by Amy Hale AukerCreative Nonfiction2012
The Bride's House by Sandra DallasHistorical Fiction2012
The American Café by Sara Sue HoklotubbeOriginal Softcover Fiction2012
Married into it by Patricia FrolanderPoetry2012
Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies) by Sarah CarterScholarly Nonfiction2012
Follow the Dream by Heidi M. ThomasChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2011
Unbroken by Jamie Lisa ForbesContemporary Fiction2011
To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home by Evelyn Searle HessCreative Nonfiction2011
Take Me Home: A Novel by Brian LeungHistorical Fiction2011
Light on a Distant Hill: A Novel of the Indian West by Bill J. ScottOriginal Softcover Fiction2011
Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880 (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Renny GoldenPoetry2011
A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936 by Kimberley MangunScholarly Nonfiction2011
Hellie Jondoe by Randall PlattChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2010
Wild Sorrow by Sandi AultContemporary Fiction2010
No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life by Linda M. HasselstromCreative Nonfiction2010
My Name Is Falon: One Woman's Saga from Scotland to the Texas Frontier by Kim WieseHistorical Fiction2010
A Flickering Light by Jane KirkpatrickOriginal Softcover2010
Work Is Love Made Visible: Collected Family Photographs and Poetry by Jeanetta Calhoun MishPoetry2010
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda GordonScholarly Nonfiction2010
Dreams on the Oregon Trail by Barbara LinsleyChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2009
The Last Cowgirl: A Novel by Jana RichmanContemporary Fiction2009
Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife by Michele Longo EderCreative Nonfiction2009
Charley's Choice: The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst by Fern J. HillHistorical Fiction2009
Buffalo Bill's Defunct: A Latouche County Mystery by Sheila SimonsonOriginal Softcover Fiction2009
Between Desert Seasons by Ellen WaterstonPoetry2009
Full Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World by Linda PeavyScholarly Nonfiction2009
Exiled: From Tragedy to Triumph on the Missouri Frontier by Louise A. JacksonChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2008
What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories by Janet PeeryContemporary Fiction2008
Deadman's Switch by Barbara SeranellaContemporary Fiction2008
What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest by Susan Wittig AlbertCreative Nonfiction2008
Harpsong by Rilla AskewHistorical Fiction2008
Raven Eye (Sun Tracks) by Margo TamezPoetry2008
Laura Ingalls Wilder : a writer's life by Pamela Smith HillScholarly Nonfiction2008
Harvey Girl by Sheila Wood FoardChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2007
The Girl from Charnelle: A Novel (P.S.) by K. L. CookContemporary Fiction2007
Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart by edited by Caroline PattersonCreative Nonfiction2007
The Night Journal by Elizabeth CrookHistorical Fiction2007
Hallowed Ground by Lori G. ArmstrongOriginal Softcover Fiction2007
To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (Many Minnesotans Series) by Joyce SutphenPoetry2007
Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols And the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights by Diane EickhoffScholarly Nonfiction2007
A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845 by Linda CrewChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2006
Sky Bridge: A Novel by Laura PritchettContemporary Fiction2006
New Mercies by Sandra DallasHistorical Fiction2006
The Lady Rode Bucking Horses: The Story of Fannie Sperry Steele, Woman of the West by Dee MarvineMemoir/Essay2006
Summer of Fire (Yellowstone series) by Linda JacobsOriginal Softcover Fiction2006
Impertinences: Selected Writings Of Elia Peattie, A Journalist In The Gilded Age by Elia PeattieOther Nonfiction2006
Beasts in Snow: Poetry of the American West by Jane Elkington WohlPoetry2006
Nothing Here But Stones: A Jewish Pioneer Story by Nancy OswaldChildren’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction2005
The Real Minerva by Mary SharrattContemporary Fiction2005
Tombstone Travesty by Jane Candia ColemanHistorical Fiction2005
Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country by Lucy MooreMemoir/Essay2005
Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman by Kristie MillerNonfiction2005
Echoes (Berkley Sensation) by Erin GradyOriginal Softcover Fiction2005
I Am Madagascar by Ellen WaterstonPoetry2005
Rodzina by Karen CushmanChildren’s/Young Adult2004
All Over Creation by Ruth OzekiContemporary Fiction2004
Silver Lies by Ann ParkerHistorical Fiction2004
Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk : Growing Up in Polygamy by Dorothy Allred SolomonMemoir/Essay2004
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda HuntNonfiction2004
Deliverance Valley by Glaydys SmithOriginal Softcover2004
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems by Louise Erdrichpoetry2004
A Circle of Time by Marisa MontesChildren’s/Young Adult2003
Perma Red by Debra Magpie EarlingContemporary Fiction2003
Enemy Women by Paulette JilesHistorical Fiction2003
Breaking Clean by Judy BluntMemoir/Essay2003
Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest by Arnold BerkeNonfiction2003
Small Rocks Rising by Susan LangOriginal Paperback2003
Miracles of Sainted Earth (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, 1) by Victoria Edwards TesterPoetry2003
Cissy Funk by Kim TaylorChildren’s/Young Adult2002
This House of Women by Paul Scott MaloneContemporary Fiction2002
The Good Journey: A Novel by Micaela GilchristHistorical Fiction2002
She Flies Without Wings: How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul by Mary D. MidkiffMemoir/Essay2002
Eye of the Blackbird: A Story of Gold in the American West by H. L. SkinnerNonfiction2002
Across the Sweet Grass Hills by Gail L. JennerOriginal Paperback2002
Blood Sister, I Am to These Fields by Linda HussaPoetry2002
The Horned Toad Prince by Jackie Mims HopkinsChildren’s/Young Adult2001
The Spirit Woman by Margaret CoelContemporary Fiction2001
For California's Gold: A Novel by Jo Ann LevyHistorical Fiction2001
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter by Julene BairMemoir/Essay2001
Dead Man Falls by Paula BoydOriginal Paperback2001
The Birchbark House by Louise ErdrichYA Fiction2000

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