Waterston wins 2009 Willa Award
Wordcraft of Oregon received news today that Ellen Waterston’s book, Between Desert Seasons, was selected as the winner of the 2009 Willa Award for Poetry from Women Writing the West and representing the best of 2008 published literature for women’s stories set in the American West.
Chosen by professional librarians, historians, and university affiliated educators, the winning authors and their books will be honored at the 15th Annual Conference, to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Conference Center, September 11 – 13, 2009.
Winners in other categories included:
Contemporary Fiction: Last Cowgirl, by Jana Richman (William Morrow/HarperCollins
Creative Nonfiction: Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife, by Michele Longo Eder (Dancing Moon Press)
Scholarly Nonfiction: Full-Court Quest: The Girls From Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of theWorld, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (University of Oklahoma)
Historical Fiction: Charley’s Choice: The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst, by Fern J. Hill (Infinity Publishing)
Original Softcover Fiction (Trade or Mass Market): Buffalo Bill’s Defunct: A Latouche County Mystery, by Sheila Simonson (Perseverance Press/John Daniel and Co.)
Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction: Dreams on the Oregon Trail, by Barbara Linsley (Whitehall Publishing)
WWW will be seeking entries for the 2010 Willa Literary Awards, honoring books published in 2009. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2010.
WWW is a non-profit association of writers and other literature oriented professionals, writing and promoting the Women’s West. Membership is open to any person worldwide who shares these interests. For more information about the WILLA Awards, Women Writing the West, or the 15th Annual Conference, please visit: womenwritingthewestdotorg, or write c/o Joyce Lohse, WWW Adminstrator, 8547 E. Arapahoe Rd. #J-541, Greenwood Village, CO 80112-1436
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