Women Writing the West (WWW) selected Jane Kirkpatrick’s A Light in the Wilderness (Revell/Baker Publishing Group) as the winner of the 2015 WILLA Literary Award for Original Softcover Fiction. The winning authors and their books will be honored at WWW’s 21st annual conference, Oct. 9-11, in Redmond, Oregon.

Kirkpatrick is the New York Times and CBA best-selling author of more than 25 books. She has won the Carol Award for Historical Fiction, and her works have been finalists for the Christy Award, Spur Award, Oregon Book Award and Reader’s Choice awards.

Many of Kirkpatrick’s titles have been chosen as Book of the Month and Literary Guild selections as well. Her works can also be read in more than 50 publications, including Daily Guideposts.

The WILLA awards honor the best published literature set in the American West. WWW, the award’s underwriter, is a nonprofit association of writers and other literature-oriented professionals.

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