Across the Sweet Grass Hills has recently WON the 2002 Willa Literary Award for Original Paperback Fiction, a national book award sponsored by Women Writing the West. Judged by more than twenty librarians from all over the country, the Willa -- created in honor of Willa Cather -- is in its 8th year.
August 1, 2002
For Immediate Release:
Awarded annually for outstanding literature featuring women's stories set in
the West, the WILLA Literary Awards are chosen by a distinguished panel of
twenty-one professional librarians. Awards will be presented at the 8the
Annual Women Writing the West Conference being held at the Brown Palace in
Denver October 25th through the 27th. Finalist awards will be presented at
the Saturday luncheon and winners will receive trophies in a formal ceremony
at the Saturday evening banquet. Keynote speaker for the evening event is
acclaimed cowboy poet and entertainer Peggy Godfrey.
2002 WILLA Literary Award Winners and Finalists
Contemporary Fiction WINNER: This House of Women, Paul Scott Malone
FINALIST: Heart of the Beast, Joyce Weatherford
FINALIST: The Jasmine Trade, Denise Hamilton
Historical Fiction WINNER: The Good Journey, Micaela Gilchrist
FINALIST: The Water and the Blood, Nancy Turner
FINALIST: The Magic of Ordinary Days, Ann Howard Creel
Non-Fiction WINNER: Eye of the Blackbird, Holly Skinner
FINALIST: Sarah Winnemucca, Sally Zanjani
FINALIST: I'll Go and Do More, Carolyn Niethammer
Memoir/Essay WINNER: She Flies Without Wings, Mary D. Midkiff
FINALIST: Mountain Time, Jane Candia Coleman
FINALIST: Standing Up to the Rock, T. Louise Freeman-Toole
Poetry WINNER: Blood Sister I Am To These Fields, Linda Hussa
Children's/Young Adult WINNER: Cissy Funk, Kim Taylor
FINALIST: Walk Across the Sea, Susan Fletcher
FINALIST: Boston Jane, Jennifer Holm
Original Paperback WINNER: Across the Sweet Grass Hills, Gail Jenner
FINALIST: Fragile Treaties, Faye Roberts
FINALIST: Death of a Songbird, Christine Goff
Sometimes, vacations just don't turn out the way you hoped they would. An idyllic wilderness house boating get-a-way soon turns into a hellish nightmare...
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
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