2012 WILLA Award
winners & finalists
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WILLA Literary Award Winners and Finalists 2012
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
WINNER: Raising Wrecker by Summer Wood (Bloomsbury USA)
FINALIST: Fracture by Susan Cummins Miller
(Texas Tech University Press)
FINALIST: Séance in Sepia by Michelle Black (Five Star/Gale Cengage)
CREATIVE NONFICTION
WINNER: Rightful Place by Amy Hale Auker
(Texas Tech University Press)
FINALIST: Light on the Devils: Coming of Age on the Klamath
by Louise Wagenknecht (Oregon State University Press)
FINALIST: Bull Canyon: A Boat Builder, A Writer, and Other Wildlife
by Lin Pardey (Paradise Cay Publications)
SCHOLARLY NONFICTION
WINNER: Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian
Northwest and Borderlands
Edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack (AU Press)
FINALIST: Baby Doe Tabor: Matchless Silver Queen
by Joyce B. Lohse (Filter Press, LLC)
HISTORICAL FICTION
WINNER: The Bride's House by Sandra Dallas (St. Martin's Press)
FINALIST: Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
FINALIST: A Race to Splendor by Ciji Ware (Sourcebooks/Landmark)
POETRY
WINNER: Married Into It by Patricia Frolander (High Plains Press)
FINALIST: The Singing Bowl by Joan Logghe
(University of New Mexico Press)
FINALIST: Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet
by Linda M. Hasselstrom and Twyla M. Hansen
(The Backwaters Press)
ORIGINAL SOFTCOVER FICTION
(TRADE OR MASS MARKET)
WINNER: The American Cafe by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
(University of Arizona Press)
FINALIST: Captive Trail by Susan Page Davis (Moody Publishers)
FINALIST: Unbridled by Tammy Hinton (Roots & Branches)
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
FICTION & NONFICTION
WINNER: The Year We Were Famous by Carole Estby Dagg
(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
FINALIST: Forgiven by Janet Fox (Speak/Penguin)
FINALIST: A Book for Black-Eyed Susan by Judy Young
(Sleeping Bear Press)