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)
2020^[1]	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
2019^[2]	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
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
2017^[4]	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
2016^[5]	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

References[]

^ "The WILLA Literary Award". Women Writing the West. Retrieved 2021-10-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "2019 WILLA Finalists & Winners". Women Writing the West. Retrieved 2021-10-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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Novels	Alexander's Bridge O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark My Ántonia One of Ours A Lost Lady The Professor's House My Mortal Enemy Death Comes for the Archbishop Shadows on the Rock Lucy Gayheart Sapphira and the Slave Girl Hard Punishments
Short stories	"Peter" "Lou, the Prophet" "The Elopement of Allen Poole" "A Tale of the White Pyramid" "A Son of the Celestial" "The Clemency of the Court" "The Fear That Walks by Noonday" "On the Divide" "A Night at Greenway Court" "Tommy, the Unsentimental" "The Princess Baladina – Her Adventure" "The Count of Crow's Nest" "The Burglar's Christmas" "The Strategy of the Were-Wolf Dog" "A Resurrection" "The Prodigies" "Nanette: An Aside" "The Way of the World" "The Westbound Train" "Eric Hermannson's Soul" "The Dance at Chevalier's" "The Sentimentality of William Tavener" "The Affair at Grover Station" "A Singer's Romance" "The Conversion of Sum Loo" "Jack-a-Boy" "El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional" "The Professor's Commencement" "The Treasure of Far Island" "A Death in the Desert" "A Wagner Matinee" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "Flavia and Her Artists" "The Garden Lodge" "The Marriage of Phaedra" "Paul's Case" "The Namesake" "The Profile" "The Willing Muse" "Eleanor's House" "On the Gulls' Road" "The Enchanted Bluff" "The Joy of Nelly Deane" "Behind the Singer Tower" "The Bohemian Girl" "Consequences" "The Bookkeeper's Wife" "The Diamond Mine" "A Gold Slipper" "Ardessa" "Scandal" "Her Boss" "Coming, Eden Bower!" "Uncle Valentine" "Double Birthday" "Neighbour Rosicky" "" "" "" "The Best Years"
Short story collections	The Troll Garden Youth and the Bright Medusa Obscure Destinies The Old Beauty and Others Five Stories
Collection of poems	April Twilights
Collaborations	The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science
Adaptations	A Lost Lady (1934 film) O Pioneers! (1992 film) My Antonia (1995 film) O Pioneers! (2009 opera)
Related	Willa Cather Birthplace Willa Cather House Edith Lewis Willa Cather Foundation WILLA Literary Award