Writers League Book Awards

The Writers League of Texas Book Awards (formerly the Violet Crown and Teddy Awards) of 2009 area announced at: http://www.writersleague.org/contests/index.html .  Some are Texana:   Nonfiction Winner A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Big Horn, the Last Great Battle of the American West James Donovan, Dallas, TX (Little, Brown, March 2008) Finalists The Texas Rangers, Mike Cox, Austin, TX The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder, Stew Magnuson, Arlington, VA Island Journeys, Patti Marxsen Camden, ME The Texas Hill Country, Terry Thompson-Anderson, Fredericksburg, TX The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Marion Winik, Baltimore, MD   Fiction Winner The Story of Forgetting Stefan Merrill Block, Brooklyn, NY (Random House, April 2008) Finalists The Condition, Jennifer Haigh, Hull, MA The Theory of Light and Matter, Andrew Porter, San Antonio, TX Purple Hearts, C.W. Smith, Dallas, TX Northline, Willy Vlautin, Scappoose, OR   Children's Book Winner The Underneath, Kathi Appelt College Station, TX (Atheneum, May 2008) Finalists Man in the Moon, Dotti Enderle, Richmond, TX Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid, Xavier Garza, San Antonio, TX How Not to Be Popular, Jennifer Ziegler, Austin, TX   Poetry & Literary Prose Winner Meditations on Rising and Falling Philip Pardi Phoenicia, NY (University of Wisconsin Press, February 2008) Finalists Shadow Mountain, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Houston, TX A Poetry of Remembrance, Levi Romero, Albuquerque, NM Wild Flight, Christine Rhein, Brighton, MI