WLA Literary Awards Committee

Annual Honors

2009 Honors

RR Donnelley Award

What It Is

Lynda Barry

Notable Authors

Gene DeWeese

Margaret Ashmun

Outstanding Achievement

Anthony Bukoski
North of the Port: Stories

Lauren Groff
Monsters of Templeton

Sharon Kaye
Black Market Truth

David Maraniss
Rome 1960

David McGlynn
The End of the Straight and Narrow

Rachel Pastan
Lady of the Snakes

David Rhodes
Driftless

Michael Schumachee
Wreck of the Carl D.: a True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea

Lori Tharps
Kinky Gazpacho

Jean Wilkowski
Abroad for her Country

Outstanding Achievement in Poetry

Matthew Guenette
Sudden Anthem

Judy Roy and June Two
Off Q: a Conversation in Poetry

Nirschl

Austin Smith
In the Silence of the Migrated Birds

Ron Wallace
For a Limited Time Only