Western history Writing Life

Baby Doe is on a Roll!

This week, Women Writing the West announced winners and finalists of the 2012 WILLA Literary awards. Lo and behold, Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen is a finalist in the Scholarly Nonfiction category, its second award this year after winning Best Biography from CIPA. What an honor! WILLA awards will be presented October 19-21 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Annual WWW Conference. Baby Doe, who loved jewels, now has gold and silver emblems for her book cover!

Best wishes, Joyce
www.LohseWorks.com

Silver WILLA

Women Writing the West
2012 WILLA Winners and Finalists:

CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Winner: *Wrecker: A Novel* by Summer Wood
Finalist: * Fracture* by Susan Cummins Miller
Finalist: *Seance in Sepia* by Michelle Black

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Winner: *Rightful Place* by Amy Hale Auker
Finalist: * Light on the Devils: Coming of Age on the Klamath* by
Louise Wagenknecht
Finalist: * Bull Canyon: A Boat Builder, A Writer, and Other
Wildlife*by Lin Pardey

SCHOLARLY NONFICTION
Winner: *Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian
Northwest and Borderlands*, edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack
Finalist: *Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen* by Joyce B. Lohse

HISTORICAL FICTION
Winner: *The Bride’s House* by Sandra Dallas
Finalist: *Mercury’s Rise* by Ann Parker
Finalist: *A Race to Splendor* by Ciji Ware

POETRY
Winner: *Married Into It* by Patricia Frolander
Finalist: *The Singing Bowl* by Joan Logghe
Finalist: *Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet* by Linda M. Hasselstrom and
Twyla M. Hansen

ORIGINAL SOFTCOVER* *FICTION
* *Winner: *The American Cafe *by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Finalist: *Captive Trail* by Susan Page Davis
Finalist: *Unbridled* by Tammy Hinton

CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT FICTION AND NONFICTION
Winner: *The Year We Were Famous* by Carole Estby Dagg
Finalist: *Forgiven* by Janet Fox
Finalist: *A Book for Black-Eyed Susan* by Judy Young

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