WILLA Literary Award

WILLA Literary Award honors outstanding literature featuring women's stories, set in the Western United States, published each year. Women Writing the West (WWW), a non-profit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the Women's West, underwrites and presents the nationally recognized award annually.

The award is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, one of the country's foremost novelists. The awards are presented at the WWW Fall Conference.

Recipients
WILLA Literary Award Recipients (2016-2020)
Year Category Book Author Contributor(s)
2016[1] Contemporary Fiction Firebreak Tricia Fields
Scholarly Nonfiction Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest Lesley Poling-Kempes
Historical Fiction The Bookseller Cynthia Swanson
Poetry Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems Diane Glancy
Original Softcover Fiction Hidden Shadows Linda Lucretia Schuler
Children's / Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction Shadow of the Hawk K. S. Jones
Creative Nonfiction American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest Hannah Nordhaus
2017[2] Contemporary Fiction Piano Tide Kathleen Dean Moore
Scholarly Nonfiction Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses 1802-1876 Jennifer J. Lawrence
Historical Fiction Basque Moon Julie Whitesel Weston
Poetry Demimonde Kierstin Bridger
Original Softcover Fiction Beloved Over All: Historical Fiction Irene Sandell
Children's / Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction Soldier Sister, Fly Home Nancy Bo Flood
Creative Nonfiction Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail Debbie Clarke Moderow
2018[3] Contemporary Fiction Zetty Debra Whiting Alexander
Scholarly Nonfiction Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages Candace Wellman
Historical Fiction Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival Matthew P. Mayo
Poetry Rock Tree Bird Twyla M. Hansen
Original Softcover Fiction Hidden Ones: A Veil of Memories Marcia Fine
Children's / Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan Patricia Bailey
Creative Nonfiction Women Artists of the Great Basin Mary Lee Fulkerson Susan E Mantle
2019[4] Contemporary Fiction The Flicker of Old Dreams Susan Henderson
Scholarly Nonfiction Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924 Heather Mayer
Historical Fiction The Which Way Tree Elizabeth Crook
Poetry Coming Out of Nowhere Linda Schandelmeier
Original Softcover Fiction See Also Proof Larry D. Sweazy
Children's Fiction & Nonfiction Hard Scrabble Sandra Dallas
Creative Nonfiction My Ranch Too Mary Budd Flitner
Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction The Communing Tree Theresa Verboort
2020[5] Contemporary Fiction Hanging Falls: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery Margaret Mizushima
Scholarly Nonfiction Ours Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces Sarah Carter
Historical Fiction Wild Rivers, Wild Rose Sarah Birdsall
Poetry Second Wind Patricia Frolander
Original Softcover Fiction 142 Ostriches April Dávila
Children's Fiction & Nonfiction The Girl who Moved to the Town that Wasn’t There Suzanne Hovik Fuller Emmeline Forrestal (illustrator)
Creative Nonfiction Miracle Country: A Memoir of a Family and a Landscape Kendra Atleework
Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction Taylor Before and After Jennie Englund

References
  1. "2016 WILLA Winners & Finalists". Women Writers of the West. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  2. "2017 WILLA Winners & Finalists". Women Writers of the West. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  3. "WILLA 2018 Winners & Finalists". Women Writing the West. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  4. "2019 WILLA Finalists & Winners". Women Writing the West. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  5. "The WILLA Literary Award". Women Writing the West. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
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