Category Archives: WWW General News

New Release: “Lost and Broken Things” by Linda Sandifer

Set amid the wild beauty of Idaho’s backcountry, a young shepherdess and her “brother” desperately try to fight the odds when their future collides with the past. 1929. Fourteen-year-old Lily Statton and eleven-year-old Davy think it’s going to be just another summer herding the family’s sheep in the mountains. But things take an unexpected turnContinueContinue reading “New Release: “Lost and Broken Things” by Linda Sandifer”

DOWNING Journalism Award Celebrates 10 Years

By Linda Wommack, DOWNING Journalism Award Chair As we get ready to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Women Writing the West DOWNING Journalism Award, let’s reflect on the past, the present and the future of the award. In 2016 Women Writing the West had two awards, the WILLA for literature and the LAURA forContinueContinue reading “DOWNING Journalism Award Celebrates 10 Years”

Wintering with WWW: Lynn Downey

By Lynn Downey Works in Progress: Finding Women’s Lives in the Archives Archives are not just collections of paper, photographs, and artifacts; not to me, at least. I’ve been an archivist and a historian for nearly forty years, and I never fail to find great stories in those files and boxes. One theme I’ve beenContinueContinue reading “Wintering with WWW: Lynn Downey”