Category: Acknowledgements
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Add to prizes: the WILLA
Linda Sandifer’s novel, Lost and Broken Things, has been named the Women Writing the West 2026 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction. The awards will be received at the annual WWW convention held this year in Phoenix, Arizona, October 15-17th. This follows an award earlier this year from the Western Writers of America: the Spur Award for…
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Middle-Grade Book Lands Well
Boise author Jan M. Flynn, whose debut novel Griffin Speaker — first in a middle-grade fantasy series from Disney-Hyperion Books — released on May 5, shares updates on how the book is being received. Already going into its second printing, Griffin Speaker has been named by Barnes & Noble as one of “The Best Kids’…
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Sandifer Wins Spur Award
IWU congratulates Linda Sandifer (whom we recently profiled) whose book Lost and Broken Things has won the Western Writers of America 2026 Spur Award for Best Traditional Novel. “Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West. since 1953, the Spur Awards have been one of the most prestigious awards…
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Oldspeak’s Number 4
If you’re in the Boise area, you probably know about Oldspeak (“Part taproom, part bookstore, part community hub”) — whom we’ve just been reminded of and have added to our Independent Bookstores page. Well, they’ve tallied up their best sellers from 2025 and Edna Shochat’s poetry book, Decent Exposure, came in fourth — following Gillian…
