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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.

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WILLA Literary Award

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WILLA Literary Award honors outstanding literature featuring women's stories, set in the Western United States, published each year. Women Writing the...

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Willa Cather

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and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia...

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Margaret Coel

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Boulder Daily Camera. Coel has received six Colorado Book Awards and one WILLA Literary Award. This series—20 books published from 1995 to 2016—is set...

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Annie Proulx

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Stories 2000 2000—Borders Original Voices Award in Fiction (Close Range, Wyoming Stories) 2000—WILLA Literary Award, Women Writing the West 2002—Best Foreign...

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Esperanza Rising

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Addams Children's Book Award The 2001 WILLA Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult Fiction The 2001 Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature...

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Ruth Ozeki

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All Over Creation received the 2003 WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction and the 2004 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation...

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Linda Gordon

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City and in Madison, Wisconsin. She won the Marfield Prize and the WILLA Literary Award in Historical Nonfiction for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits...

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Dawn Quigley

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Middle, was nominated for the American Indian Youth Literature Award and the WILLA Literary Award. Quigley attended the University of Minnesota, where she received...

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All Over Creation

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the universal capacity for renewal. American Book Award New York Times Notable Book WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction Guardian New York Times...

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Laura Pritchett

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her books have garnered the PEN USA Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, and others. Both her fiction and...

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Edith Lewis

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copywriter at J. Walter Thompson. Lewis was Willa Cather's domestic partner and was named executor of Cather's literary estate in Cather's will. After Cather's...

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Willa of the Wood

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once feared. A #1 New York Times best-seller, Willa of the Wood has been recognized by several literary organizations and publications for its success...

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List of organizations for women writers

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playwrights Tagea Brandt Rejselegat: Danish award for women academics and writers Willa Literary Award: American award presented by Women Writing the West (WWW)...

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Katie Hickman

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Dramatic Story of Women of the American West (2022), which won the 2023 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction. Travel Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon: A Journey...

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Debra Magpie Earling

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Spur Award and Medicine Pipe Bearer Award for best first novel from the Western Writers Association, a WILLA Literary Award and the American Book Award. Perma...

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Harpsong

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the Oklahoma Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, the WILLA Literary Award from Women Writing the West, and the Violet Crown Award from the Writers'...

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Jane Kirkpatrick

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Trilogy (omnibus) (2013) A Flickering Light (2009), winner of the 2010 WILLA Literary Award in Original Softcover Fiction (Trade or Mass Market) An Absence So...

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Elizabeth Crook

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Foote. The Night Journal was awarded the 2007 Spur award for Best Long Novel of the West and the 2007 Willa Literary Award for Historical Fiction. Monday...

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Rilla Askew

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Museum. Retrieved 5 June 2020. "The WILLA Literary Award – Women Writing the West - Previous WILLA Literary Award Winners and Finalists". Women Writing...

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Willa Muir

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including Franz Kafka. In 1958, Willa and Edwin Muir were granted the first Johann-Heinrich-Voss Translation Award. Willa Muir was born Wilhelmina Johnston...

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Apple in the Middle

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Archived from the original on 2019-05-13. Retrieved 2021-10-23. "The WILLA Literary Award". Women Writing the West. Archived from the original on 2020-02-18...

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Willa Schneberg

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Willa Hope Schneberg (born May 21, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet. She has published five full-length poetry collections, including...

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Sharman Apt Russell

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2020. "2015 WILLA Literary Award Winners and Finalists". womenwritingthewest.org. Retrieved May 16, 2020. "2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards". nmbookcoop...

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Margo Tamez

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literary work of the American poetry form known as the 'long poem', a form developed by Norman Dubie.[citation needed] Raven Eye won the 2008 WILLA Literary...

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