The organization Women Writing the West recently announced the winners and honour books (finalists) for its 16th Annual WILLA Literary Awards named for Pulitzer-award winning author Willa Cather. These books are published stories about women or girls set in the North American West.
The seven categories for which WILLAs are awarded are:
- Contemporary Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Original Softcover Fiction (Trade or Mass Market)
- Creative Non-Fiction
- Scholarly Non-Fiction
- Poetry
- Children's and Young Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction
In this final category, the only one relevant to CanLit for LittleCanadians, a youngCanLit title was in the top three:
Congratulations to
Dayle Campbell Gaetz's
Taking the Reins
for being selected as
a finalist for the Children's Fiction WILLA 2014.
Taking the Reins
by Dayle Campbell Gaetz
Coteau Books
978-1-550-505528
232 pp.
Ages 10-14
2013
Reviewed here and here
