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What Wildness is This
Wins a Willa!
What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest has been granted the 2008 Willa Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction. The book is a significant anthology of writings by women, celebrating their experiences in the landscapes of the Southwest. Sponsored by the Story Circle Network and published by the University of Texas Press, the collection illuminates the rich diversity of environments of the Southwest, as well as the extraordinary range of women's voices and women's experiences of the land. The anthology includes a variety of literary forms—memoir, creative non-fiction, essay, poetry—and pieces by both emerging and established writers.
The Willa Literary Award is granted by Women Writing the West, a nonprofit organization of writers and other professionals writing and supporting the Women's West.
Read a review by Judith Helburn
Read a review by Linda Wisniewski
Listen to several contributors read their stories and co-editor Susan Albert discuss the anthology.
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From the Editors' Desk
We love books that tell the truth about women's lives or deliciously depict them in enlightening novels. Browse our reviews, learn more about the authors. Our talented review team is comprised of women like you, who love to read and perhaps analyze the works of their favorite writers. Buy books online through amazon.com by simply clicking on the book cover with the review. Your purchase will support our work of encouraging all women to tell their stories.
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Review of the Month
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Readers understand the mystique of books. Most of us have our own quirks and book obsessions, many of which revolve around our love affair with the written word. Often we, too, have book collections of one kind or another; a favored author, a special subject, a particular format. Yet Allison Hoover Bartlett's account of one man's bibliomania makes us stop short and rethink how we react to our treasured books!
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Reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka
Laura Strathman Hulka has been an avid reader since the age of four, when she started reading the back of cereal boxes. Born and raised in California, she continues to read and write from her Delta riverside home in Rio Vista.
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