Creative Writing Fellowships and Awards
The Wyoming Arts Council’s Creative Fellowships program was created in 1986 and is based on a writer’s body of work, and honoring Wyoming’s literary artists whose work reflects exceptional writing. One fellowship is awarded in each category of Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction, for a total of three fellowships.
Since 1989, 50+ talented writers have received either the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature or the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman.
The Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship was established in 2019 and is an annual prestigious fellowship open to creative writers and journalists who demonstrate serious inquiry and dedication to the Greater Yellowstone region through their work.
Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship • Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature • Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman • Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry) • Creative Writing Fellowship (Fiction) • Creative Writing Fellowship (Nonfiction)
Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship
This annual prestigious fellowship of $3,500 is a national call open to creative writers (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) and journalists (writer, photojournalist, videographer, documentary filmmaker, online or print media) who demonstrate serious inquiry and dedication to the Greater Yellowstone region through their work. This fellowship seeks to intersect science, education, current events, and conservation to effectively communicate the Greater Yellowstone’s natural history and singular importance to society through creative and exceptional writing and subject communication.
The fellowship recipient will be expected to create or complete a relevant publishable or produced work and may be requested or encouraged to make public presentations. In addition to the financial award, the fellowship recipient may elect to also receive a one week housing residency at one of several prearranged different locations within the Greater Yellowstone region. Such residency will be based on availability and will be negotiated with the fellowship recipient. Established and recognized authors are being sought, but emerging and mid-career writers are also encouraged to apply.
2025 Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship Info
2024 Application Window: September 5 – November 1, 2024
Apply for the 2025 Pattie Layser Fellowship Here
Applications are accepted online via Submittable at wyomingartscouncil.submittable.com/submit.
Meet the 2025 Pattie Layser Jurors
Kelsey K. Sather was born and raised in Montana. She’s the author of “Birth of the Anima” and is a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for fantasy. Her stories, both real and imagined, explore the complexities of human-nature relations. She attended the University of Utah on fellowship and graduated with an MA in Environmental Humanities. The second book in her series, “Ancient Language of the Earth,” is forthcoming in the fall of 2025. When she isn’t writing, she directs the Biocene Foundation, providing grants for the individuals and organizations enacting solutions to the ecological crisis and sharing their stories of joy and perseverance. At the core of her vocation as a creator and conservationist is the hopeful intention to help people live with deeper connections to self, nature, and each other.
Jim Robbins has lived in Montana since 1977. He has written for the New York Times for more than 40 years, on a wide range of topics, but with a special focus on science and environmental issues. He is also a frequent contributor to E360, a Yale Forestry School environmental journalism website and has written for Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Vanity Fair, The London Sunday Times, Conservation and numerous other magazines. He has covered environmental stories across the US and in far flung places around the world, including Mongolia, Australia, Mexico, Chile, Peru, the Yanomami Territory of Brazil, Norway, Sweden and other countries. In 2023 he was one of five ‘distinguished humanists’ awarded the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award.
2024 Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing and Journalism Fellowship Recipient
Todd Burritt of Livingston, Montana is the recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council’s 2024 Pattie Layser Greater Yellowstone Creative Writing & Journalism Fellowship for his submission Fantastic Adversary.
Before settling down, Todd Burritt worked in five different wilderness areas across the Greater Yellowstone. Now he’s a full-time dad and part-time everything else in Livingston, Montana. The author of Outside Ourselves: Landscape and Meaning in the Greater Yellowstone, his writing also appears in Voices of Yellowstone’s Capstone, The Artist’s Field Guide to Yellowstone, and on mountainjournal.com.
Honorable Mentions:
- Anne Marie Wells (Warrenton, VA): The Poet’s Field Guide to Yellowstone
- Nicholas Mott (Livingston, MT): The Wide Open Season One
- Kevin Grange (Jackson, WY): Grizzly Confidential
Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature and Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman
The Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman of $1,000 is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script written by a woman writer. The Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature, also $1,000, is given annually for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script informed by a relationship with the natural world.
Both awards are designed to bring attention to writers in Wyoming who have not yet received wide recognition for their work, and to support emerging writers at crucial times in their careers. Poets, fiction writers, essayists, and script writers who have published no more than one book in each genre and who are not full-time students or faculty members are invited to apply by submitting manuscripts and an entry form by the deadline.
The Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature and the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman are made possible through the generosity of Neltje.
2025 Writing Awards Info
2024 Application Window: September 19 – November 14, 2024
Apply for the 2025 Blanchan/Doubleday Writing Awards Here
Applications are accepted online via Submittable at wyomingartscouncil.submittable.com/submit.
Meet the 2025 Blanchan/Doubleday Writing Awards Juror
Dawn Wink, PhD is a writer and educator whose work explores wildness, beauty, and imagination. Wink’s novel, Meadowlark, was awarded the Women Writing the West WILLA Award for Historical Fiction/Finalist, High Plains Book Award for Woman Writer/Finalist, and NM/AZ Book Awards for Historical Fiction/Finalist. Other publications include, Teaching Passionately: What’s Love got To Do With It?, co-written with Joan Wink, “Wild Waters: Landscapes of Language,” and “Language, Culture, and Land: Lenses of Lilies.” Wink lives with her family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2024 Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman Recipient
Cady Favazzo received the Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman for the entry, “Even Parts I Promised Myself.” This award is given for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script written by a woman writer. Honorable mentions were awarded to Reatha Thomas Oakley of Gillette and Callie Plaxco of Laramie for this award.
Favazzo is a poet and teacher from Rock Springs, Wyoming. She earned her MFA from the University of Idaho. Her recent work can be found published in “Nimrod,” “Cimarron Review,” “Phoebe” and elsewhere.
Honorable Mentions:
- Callie Plaxco: One Hundred Kinds of Light
- Reatha Thomas Oakley: The Truth About Blind Girls
2024 Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature Recipient
Callie Plaxco won the Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature for the entry, “I Gather in the Tree Tops to Sing and Stare Wildly at the Dark Sky.” The award is given annually for the best poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or script informed by a relationship with the natural world. Renee Meador of Sheridan and William Owens of Lander received honorable mentions for this award.
As her grandmother once said, Callie Plaxco flew the coop when she left South Carolina to journey west to the University of Wyoming for her MFA in Creative Writing. Still in Wyoming, Callie lives with her husband, two small boys, and two big dogs. She works as a Youth Services Specialist at the Albany County Public Library where she enjoys reading to young children and getting lost in the shelves of picture books. Her chapbook, “Dear Person” is available at Dancing Girl Press and individual poems have appeared in “Carve Magazine,” “Tinderbox,” “Gingerbread House,” and “Sugar House Review.”
Honorable Mentions:
- Renee Meador: Feathers Petals and Stars
- William Owens: Murakami
Creative Writing Fellowships
Poetry • Fiction • Nonfiction
The Creative Writing Fellowships are awards of merit, based on a writer’s body of work, and honoring Wyoming’s literary artists whose work demonstrates exceptional writing. One fellowship will be awarded in each category of Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction, for a total of up to three fellowships. Applications are juried by noted authors, literary agents, or writing professionals from outside the state. Jurors may award honorable mentions.
Recipients of the Creative Writing fellowships share their work at one of the three Wyoming literary conferences.
2024 Creative Writing Fellowship Info
2024 Application Window: April 10 – June 10, 2024
ELIGIBILITY- Must be at least 18 years of age at time of application.
- Must not be a full-time student pursuing high school, college, or university art-related degrees.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have legal resident status (evidence of U.S. citizenship, resident status and state residency may be required).
- May not be affiliated with the Wyoming Arts Council either as a board member or staff member, including their families, whether full-time, part-time or contractual.
- May not be an employee of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.
- Must have been domiciled within the state borders for a total of 20 months in the previous two years.
- Must remain a Wyoming resident for at least one year after award, living in the state for at least 10 months of the year.
- Applicants must register or update their information in the Wyoming Arts Council’s Artists & Venues Directory.
- Must not have received a Creative Writing fellowship within the last four years.
- May receive a total of two fellowship awards in your lifetime.
- You may not receive a Blanchan or Doubleday writing award in the same year as this award, but you may enter this competition if you were a previous Blanchan or Doubleday winner.
- You may enter the competition only once by the deadline.
- You may only enter the competition in one category (Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction).
WHAT IF YOU WIN AN AWARD?
- You’ll receive $5,000 up front.
- You will receive an honorarium/travel stipend, if applicable, to present your work at a fellowship reading at your choice of literary conference: the Casper College Literary Conference (November, 2023), Wyoming Writers Conference (June, 2024), or the Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference (June, 2024).
- You’ll sign a contract that verifies you’re eligible to receive this award.
- You’ll need to supply a resume, bio, and a photograph for publicity.
- The Arts Council will retain your manuscript for possible use in excerpts for promotional purposes and Arts Council publications (print and electronic).
- You will retain all rights to this work and the work you produce during the grant period.
- You must create an impact statement, due August 31, 2025, sharing how this award helped you and what you accomplished during the year you received it.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (All CATEGORIES)
- You may submit up to 25 pages of writing, typed, double-spaced using a 12-point standard font.
- If submitting poetry, only one poem is allowed per page and the double-spaced requirement is waived. We welcome longer poems of multiple pages, if applicable.
- For a book excerpt, you may provide a synopsis, but it will be included in the 25-page limit.
- You may submit more than one piece of writing, as long as you don’t exceed the 25-page limit.
- Writing may have been previously published, but don’t submit reprints.
- Work must have been created within the past 5 years.
- Pages must be numbered; include title of work and page number on each page.
- Your name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
- If you submit more than the allowable page limits, extra pages will be removed.
- Do not send supplementary materials (letters, resumes, etc.)
- All work must be combined into one document and uploaded.
2024 Creative Writing Fellowship Recipients
Andrew Munz of Jackson (Fiction)
Andrew Munz is a playwright, director and performer based in Jackson, Wyoming, his hometown. He has written and directed a number of his own scripts since 2010, including the popular theatrical comedy series, “I Can Ski Forever”, which he published as a book in 2020. Other productions include his original musicals: “Cowboys Like Us”, a gay cowboy / drag queen fairy tale, “Saga”, a musical written in English and Icelandic about the founding of Iceland in 874 AD, and “The Importance of Wild Country”, which shared the story of famed conservationists Olaus and Mardy Murie.
He is a 2021 Performing Arts Fellow, Wyoming Arts Council, and a 2022 recipient of the Rising Star Award, given by the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce. He is also the author of “Jackson Hole: A Love Letter”, in collaboration with Nate Stephens.
In 2023, Munz took over the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson, and started the nonprofit, Tumbleweed Creative Arts, which supports the creation of original work by local artists. His next original production is “The Black Ibis”, a murder mystery set in 1925 Egypt, slated to premiere at the Pink Garter on September 18th.
Kristin Hugo of Kemmerer (Creative Nonfiction)
Kristin Hugo is a science journalist focusing on biology, nature, animals, and bones. She is currently writing a book called Carcass: On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies, which is slated to be published by MIT Press in late 2025.
After earning a BA in Journalism from California State University, Northridge and an MS in Science Journalism from Boston University, Kristin moved around the East and West Coasts of the US to pursue science writing positions at National Geographic, PBS Newshour, Newsweek, and Bay Nature Magazine. Now she lives in Kemmerer, Wyoming, focusing on her upcoming book on dead animals, and bone-hunting in her spare time.
In addition to writing, Kristin has experience in fact-checking, social media, multimedia, and photography. Her TikTok account, RollBones, showcases educational and entertaining videos about bones and has over 212,000 followers. She has received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Book Grant and is an alumn of both the Poynter-Koch Media Fellowship and the Wyoming Innovation Partnership Creative Economy Workshop. You can see her writing, social media pages, and contact info at KristinHugo.com. She’s available for freelance journalism, public speaking, and more.
George Vlastos of Pinedale (Poetry)
George Vlastos is a third generation Wyoming native. After graduating from Natrona County High School he received a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of Wyoming in Poetry & Environment and Natural Resources.
He has been the featured artist at the WyoPoets Annual Conference and a recipient of the Neltje Blanchan Fellowship – awarded to a writer whose work, in any genre, has been influenced by nature. He was selected by the Wyoming Humanities Council to present at the Laramie Ignite and by the Casper College Humanities Festival to present Pilgrim vs. Pilgrimage, part of a memoir written in prose and poetry about his travels among the monasteries of Mount Athos in northern Greece.
For the past 27 years, Vlastos has been an educator in Wyoming’s schools. Currently he teaches at Pinedale Middle School.
Honorable Mentions:
- Jackie Dorothy of Thermopolis (Fiction)
- Peter Fine of Laramie (Fiction)
- Pamela Galbreath of Laramie (Nonfiction)
- Renee Carrier of Hulett (Nonfiction)
- Jono Majhanovich of Pinedale (Poetry)
Meet the 2024 Jurors
Poetry Juror
Julie Carr is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, including Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein (Essay Press 2022), Real Life: An Installation (Omindawn 2018),Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta 2017), and Someone Shot my Book (University of Michigan Press 2018). Earlier books include 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta 2010), RAG (Omnidawn, 2014), and Think Tank (Solid Objects 2015). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press 2015). Her co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory was published by Commune Editions in 2018. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2023. The Underscore, a book of poems, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2024. Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over subsequent years.
Fiction Juror
Vauhini Vara is the author of This is Salvaged, which was longlisted for the Story Prize and named a notable book of 2023 by Publisher’s Weekly, The New Yorker and others, and The Immortal King Rao, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was the winner of the Colorado Book Award. Her third book, an essay collection called Searches, will be published in 2025. That collection includes the essay “Ghosts,” which was anthologized in The Best American Essays 2022; Vara has adapted “Ghosts” into a play, “Ghost Variations,” selected for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’s Colorado New Play Summit in 2024. Vara is also a journalist, writing for Wired and others, and an editor, most recently at The New York Times Magazine. Vara’s fiction has been honored by the Canada Council for the Arts, the the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Yaddo and MacDowell. Her journalism has won honors from the Asian American Journalists Association, the South Asian Journalists Association, the International Center for Journalists, and the McGraw Center for Business Journalism. She teaches at Colorado State University as a 2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Book Project. She is also the secretary of Periplus, a mentorship collective serving writers of color.
Creative Nonfiction Juror
Erika Krouse is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Save Me, Stranger, which will be published by Flatiron Books in January of 2025. Her recent memoir, Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice and won the Edgar Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Housatonic Book Award. Erika’s novel, Contenders, was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her previous short story collection, Come Up and See Me Sometime, won the Paterson Fiction Award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and is translated into six languages. Erika’s short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire.com, Ploughshares, One Story, and elsewhere. Her stories have been shortlisted for Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize. Erika went to middle school and high school in Japan, earned her B.A. from Grinnell College, and earned her masters degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she also taught creative writing classes. She teaches and mentors for the Lighthouse Book Project at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver and at the Regis Mile High MFA program. Erika is a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award for Teaching Excellence.
Previous Creative Writing Fellowship Recipients
2024: Andrew Munz of Jackson (Fiction), Kristin Hugo of Kemmerer (Creative Nonfiction), and George Vlastos of Pinedale (Poetry)
2023: Jennifer Kocher, Gillette (Creative Nonfiction), Janna Urschel, Laramie (Fiction), Rod Miller, Cheyenne (Poetry)
2022: Kate Northrop, Laramie (Poetry), David Zoby, Casper (Creative Nonfiction), Francesca King, Laramie (Fiction)
2021: Lori Howe, Laramie (Poetry), Taylor Gordon, Laramie (Fiction), Tina Welling, Jackson (Creative Nonfiction)
2020: Betsy Bernfeld, Wilson (Poetry), Susan Marsh, Jackson (Fiction), Shreve Stockton, Ten Sleep (Creative Nonfiction)
2019: Jason Stenar Clark, Laramie (Poetry ) Chad Hanson, Casper (Creative Nonfiction) Erin Jones, Laramie (Fiction)
2018: David Romtvedt, Portland (Fiction); Kate O’Hara, Kansas (Creative Nonfiction); Catherine Reeves, Casper
2017: Cara Rodriguez, Casper (Poetry); Ben Wener, Cody (Fiction); Carly Fraysier, Clearmont (Creative Nonfiction)
2016: Stephen S. Lottridge, Jackson (Creative Nonfiction); Connie Wieneke, Wilson (Poetry); Michael Sudmeier, Wilson (Fiction)
2015: Carol Deering, Riverton; Constance Brewer, Gillette; Kathleen Smith, Gillette
2014: Shawn Klomparens, Jackson; Estella Soto, Laramie
2013: Chad Hanson, Casper; Mary Beth Baptiste, Laramie; Heather Jensen, Cheyenne
2012: Claudia Mauro, Jackson; Matt Daly, Jackson; W. Dale Nelson, Laramie
2011: Kathy Bjornestad, Sundance; Samuel Western, Sheridan; Stefani Farris, Lander
2010: Joel Burdess, Casper; Jayme Feary, Jackson; and Pam Galbreath, Laramie
2009: Sam Renken, Laramie; Lori Van Pelt, Saratoga; and David Zoby, Casper
2008: Kevin Holdsworth, Green River; Doug Reitinger, Sheridan; and Valerie Pexton, Laramie
2007: John Sutton of Sheridan, John D. Nesbitt of Torrington, Chavawn Kelley of Laramie
2006: Jane Wohl, Sheridan; Myra L. Peak, Green River; and Jeffe Kennedy, Laramie
2005: John English, Casper; Alyson Hagy, Laramie; Geneen Marie Haugen, Kelly
2004: Heather LaVonne Jensen, Cheyenne; Laura Bell, Cody; and Vicki Lindner, Casper
2003: W. Dale Nelson, Laramie; Page Lambert, Sundance; and Michael Harkin, Laramie
2002: Diane Panozzo, Tie Siding; Ted Kerasote, Jackson; Ann McCutchan, Laramie; Connie Wieneke, Wilson
2001: Rodney Gene Mahaffey, Casper; Paisley Rekdal, Laramie; Chavawn Kelley, Laramie; Bo Moore, Green River
2000: Robert Druchniak, Evanston; Charles Levendosky, Casper; Stefani Farris, Laramie; Geoff Peterson, Green River
1999: Mark Spragg, Cody; Alyson Hagy, Laramie; Sam Western, Sheridan; Martha Clark Cummings, Thermopolis
1998: Carol Deering, Riverton; Christy Stillwell, Laramie; William Hoagland, Powell; Lisa Vice, Thermopolis
1997: Dainis Hazners, Story; Jon Billman, Kemmerer; Julia Hoagland, Powell; Maija Rhee Devine, Laramie
1996: Laura Bell, Shell; Bob McKee, Douglas; Diane LeBlanc, Laramie; David Romtvedt, Buffalo
1995: C.L. Rawlins, Laramie; Suzanne Tyler, Jackson; Jane Wohl, Sheridan; Ron Franscell, Gillette
1994: Janell Hanson, Laramie; Craig Johnson, Ucross; Marie J. Carvalho, Rock Springs; Stephanie Buehler, Sheridan
1993: Tim McGee, Worland; Hannah Hinchman, Dubois; Rodney Mahaffey, Casper; and Lawrence Sullenger, Story
1992: Leslie (Bridewell) McMillan, Rock Springs; Scott Hagel, Cody; Mark Jenkins, Laramie; Page Lambert, Sundance
1991: C.J. Box, Cheyenne; Len Edgerly, Casper; Dainis Hazners, Story; Julia Hoagland, Powell
1990: Vicki Lindner, Laramie; Michael Riley, Cody; Geoff O’Gara, Lander
1989: Rick Kempa, Rock Springs; Jennifer McMullin, Casper; Barbara Smith, Rock Springs; Dan Whipple, Casper
1988: B.J. Buckley, Arvada; David Mouat, Worland; Mark Spragg, Wapiti; Geoff Peterson; Green River
1987: Sandra Dorr; Story, Mark Jenkins; Laramie, John Nesbitt; Torrington, Tim Sandlin; Jackson
1986: Tilly Warnock; Laramie, Len Sherwin; Douglas, Kirk Keller; Moran, Mary Alice Gunderson; Casper
Previous Layser Fellowship Recipients
2024: Todd Burritt of Livingston, Montana; Honorable Mentions: Anne Marie Wells (Warrenton, VA); Nicholas Mott (Livingston, MT); Kevin Grange (Jackson, WY)
2023: Austin Kirchhoff, Bozeman, Montana; Honorable Mentions: Jeffrey Lockwood, Laramie; Gregory Nickerson, Laramie; Julie Rubini of Toledo, Ohio
2022: Katie Christiansen, Evergreen, CO
2021: Hannah Habermann | Jackson, WY
2020: Sarah Keller | Bozeman, MT
2019: Melodie Edwards | Laramie, WY
Previous Blanchan and Doubleday Award Recipients
2024: Cady Favazzo, Rock Springs (Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman); Callie Plaxco, Laramie (Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature)
- Honorable Mentions – Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman: Callie Plaxco: One Hundred Kinds of Light; Reatha Thomas Oakley: The Truth About Blind Girls
- Honorable Mentions – Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature: Renee Meador: Feathers Petals and Stars; William Owens: Murakami
2023: Ann Stebner Steele, Laramie (Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman); India Hayford, Casper (Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature)
- Honorable Mentions – Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award for Writing by a Woman: Sarah Hamilton, Casper; Catherine Reeves, Cheyenne; Amy Hollon, Laramie
- Honorable Mentions – Neltje Blanchan Memorial Writing Award Inspired by Nature: Pamela Galbreath, Laramie; Callie Plaxco of Laramie; Kathleen Smith of Gillette
Since 1989, 50+ talented writers have received Blanchan/Doubleday awards:
Hollie Sambrooks, Brandon McQuade, Stefani Farris, Dakota Richardson, Linda Baker, sid sibo, Liberty Lausterer, Lyndi Waters, Jayme Feary, Erin Jones, Geoffrey O’Gara, Betsy Orient Bernfeld, Hannah Hinchman, David Mouat, Sheila Roberts, Scott Hagel, Holly Skinner, C.L. Rawlins, Marcia Saum, Dainis Hazners, Barbara Gilbert, William Hoagland, Diane LeBlanc, Tina Willis, Maija Rhee Devine, Mary Beth Baptiste, Julene Bair, Chavawn Kelley, Geneen Marie Haugen, Janell Hanson, Mark Spragg, Karol Griffin, Stefani Farris, Laura Bell, Darcy Lipp-Acord, Jack Clinton, Tina Welling, Susan Marsh, Myra L. Peak, Marcia Hensley, Jeffe Kennedy, Melodie Edwards, Bo Moore, Barbara Smith, Alisan Peters, Lou O. Madison, Christine B. Nelson, W. Dale Nelson, Nina S. McConigley, Patricia Frolander, Edith Cook, George Vlastos, Christine Fadden, Yvette Ward-Horner, Matt Daly and Marylee White.
