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 were presented at the Annual Women Writing the West Conference
2005 WILLA Literary Award Winners and Finalists
Contemporary Fiction
WINNER: The Real Minerva by Mary Sharratt
FINALIST: Last Lullaby by Denise Hamilton
FINALIST: Useful Girl by Marcus Stevens
Historical Fiction
WINNER: Tombstone Travesty: Allie Earp Remembers by Jane Candia Coleman
FINALIST: Where Heaven Begins by Rosanne Bittner
FINALIST: Four Souls by Louise Erdrich 
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