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Kristine Hall, publisher of Lone Star Lit, and managing editor Michelle Newby Lancaster were on hand for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the annual <\/span><\/span>Women Writing the West<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> conference in San Antonio on October 12. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The silver anniversary conference was held October 10-13, 2019, at the Omni La Mansi\u00f3n del Rio Hotel on San Antonio\u2019s famed River Walk. Hall and Lancaster conducted, along with Lone Star Lit cofounders Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon, \u201cThe Business and Craft of Book Reviews\u201d panel on Saturday afternoon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 2019 LAURA Short Fiction Awards were presented on Friday evening. The winner is \u201cThe Blink of an Eye\u201d by B.K. Froman; finalists are \u201cGoldie Hawn at the Good Karma Caf\u00e9\u201d by Lynn Downey and \u201cFreedom\u201d by Lenore Mitchell. The winner and finalists for the 2019 LAURA Awards were determined by Houston author DiAnn Mills.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n New this year were the DOWNING Journalism Awards, which were also announced Friday evening. The winner is Julia Bricklin for “Georgia Ann Hill Robinson,” published in California History<\/em> periodical. The finalists are Jan Cleere for “Hopi Girl,” published in the Arizona Daily Star<\/em> newspaper, and Amy Hale Auker for “Work Song,” published in The Center for Basque Studies<\/em> periodical. The DOWNING winner and finalists were determined by Greg Lalire of Wild West Magazine<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The WILLA Awards finalist luncheon featured 2018 Texas Poet Laureate Carol Coffee Reposa, who read from her work, and recognized the finalists for the WILLA Award. These awards are named after Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Willa Cather and are awarded annually for outstanding literature featuring women\u2019s stories set in the West. The winners are chosen by a panel of professional librarians. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The WILLA winners were announced at the banquet Saturday night, which featured Texas novelist Ann Weisgarber as keynote speaker. The banquet was followed by a book signing and preceded by a silent auction at which a certain managing editor may have spent too much money.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 2019 WILLA winners and finalists are:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CONTEMPORARY FICTION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner – The Flicker of Old Dreams<\/em> (HarperCollins-Harper Perennial) by Susan Henderson<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Finalists – Girls from Centro<\/em> (Pen-L Publishing) by Juni Fisher and Burning Ridge: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery<\/em> (Crooked Lane Books) by Margaret Mizushima<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n HISTORICAL<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner – <\/span><\/span>The Which Way Tree<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Little, Brown and Company) by Elizabeth Crook (Read the Lone Star Lit review <\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Finalist – The Removes<\/em> (Sarah Crichton Books\/FSG) by Tatjana Soli and The Patchwork Bride<\/em> (St. Martin\u2019s Press) by Sandra Dallas<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ORIGINAL SOFTCOVER (TRADE OR MASS MARKET)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner – See Also Proof: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery<\/em> (Seventh Street Books) by Larry D. Sweazy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Finalist – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr: A Novel<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press) by Thomas Fox Averill and The Swan Keeper<\/em> (Open Books) by Milana Marsenich<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CREATIVE NONFICTION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner – My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir<\/em> (University of Oklahoma Press) by Mary Budd Flitner<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Finalists – Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living<\/em> (Scribner\/Simon & Schuster) by Karen Auvinen and Raw Material: Working Wool in the West<\/em> (Oregon State University Press) by Stephany Wilkes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n SCHOLARLY NONFICTION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner – Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924<\/em> (Oregon State University Press) by Heather Mayer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n FINALIST – Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming<\/em> (Lehigh University Press) by Ethel Waxham Love and J. David Love<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CHILDREN\u2019S FICTION AND NONFICTION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner \u2013 Hardscrabble<\/em> (Sleeping Bear Press) by Sandra Dallas<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Finalists – The Wind Called My Name<\/em> (Tu Books\/Lee & Low Books) by Mary Louise Sanchez and The Last Grand Adventure<\/em> (Simon & Schuster\/Aladdin) by Rebecca Behrens<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n YOUNG ADULT FICTION AND NONFICTION<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner – The Communing Tree<\/em> (iUniverse) by Theresa Verboort<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Finalists – Becoming Beatrice<\/em> (Blue Heron Press) by Frances Wood and Apple in the Middle<\/em> (North Dakota State University Press) by Dawn Quigley<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n POETRY<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Winner – Coming Out of Nowhere: Alaska Homestead Poems<\/em> (University of Alaska Press) by Linda Schandelmeier<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n