WILLA Literary Award - Paperback Original (Awarded by Women Writing the West)

Awards List

2015

A Light in the Wilderness
(Winner)
Jane Kirkpatrick

The Story Is the Thing
(Finalist)
Amy Hale Auker

2014

Junction, Utah
(Winner)
Rebecca Lawton

Merciless
(Finalist)
Lori Armstrong

Bodie
(Finalist)
Anne Sweazy-Kulju

2013

The Bones and the Book
(Winner)
Jane Isenberg

In Need of a Good Wife
(Finalist)
Kelly O'Connor McNees

The House on Swiss Avenue
(Finalist)
Irene Sandell

2012

The American Cafe
(Winner)
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe

Captive Trail
(Finalist)
Susan Page Davis

2011

Light on a Distant Hill: A Novel of the Indian West
(Winner)
B.J. Scott

An Absence So Great
(Finalist)
Jane Kirkpatrick

Settler's Chase
(Finalist)
D.H. Eraldi

2010

What Lies West: A Novel of the American Frontier
(Finalist)
Morton Ladene Morton

Counting the Cost
(Finalist)
Liz Adair

2009

Buffalo Bill's Defunct
(Winner)
Sheila Simonson

2008

A Tendering in the Storm
(Winner)
Jane Kirkpatrick

Lake of Fire
(Finalist)
Linda Jacobs

2007

Hallowed Ground
(Winner)
Lori G. Armstrong

Rain of Fire
(Finalist)
Linda Jacobs

2006

Summer Of Fire
(Winner)
Linda Jacobs

2005

Echoes
(Winner)
Erin Grady

2004

The Scout
(Finalist)
Lynna Banning

2003

Small Rocks Rising
(Winner)
Susan Lang

2000

The White Horses
(Nominee)
C.A. Bauer

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