WILLA Literary Award - Contemporary Fiction (Awarded by Women Writing the West)

Awards List

2015

Point of Direction
(Winner)
Rachel Weaver

Monday, Monday
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Crook

Stars Go Blue
(Finalist)
Laura Pritchett

2014

Jackson's Pond, Texas
(Finalist)
Teddy Jones

Blood of the White Bear
(Finalist)
Marcia Calhoun Forecki; Gerald Schnitzer

2013

Theft
(Winner)
BK Loren

A Growing Season
(Finalist)
Sue Boggio; Mare Pearl

2012

Raising Wrecker
(Winner)
Summer Wood

Fracture
(Finalist)
Susan Cummins Miller

Seance in Sepia
(Finalist)
Michelle Black

2011

Unbroken
(Winner)
Jamie Lisa Forbes

2010

Wild Sorrow
(Winner)
Sandi Ault

A Sandhills Ballad
(Finalist)
Ladette Randolph

Three Threads Woven
(Finalist)
Lucinda Stein

2009

The Last Cowgirl
(Winner)
Jana Richman

Hoodoo
(Finalist)
Susan Cummins Miller

2008

Spanish Dagger
(Finalist)
Susan Wittig Albert

2007

Bleeding Hearts
(Finalist)
Susan Wittig Albert

Quarry
(Finalist)
Susan Cummins Miller

2006

Return to Abo: A Novel of the Southwest
(Finalist)
Sharon Niederman

2005

The Real Minerva
(Winner)
Mary Sharratt

2004

All Over Creation
(Winner)
Ruth L. Ozeki

Desert Wives
(Finalist)
Betty Webb

Unpaid Dues
(Finalist)
Barbara Seranella

2002

This House of Women
(Winner)
Paul Scott Malone

2001

The Spirit Woman
(Winner)
Margaret Coel

Catching Heaven
(Nominee)
Sands Hall

2000

Close Range
(Winner)
Annie Proulx

1999

The Story Teller
(Nominee)
Margaret Coel

Award Categories

Children's

Children/Young Adult

Contemporary Fiction

Historical Fiction

Paperback Original

Poetry

Young Adult

Award Years

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999