Council for Wisconsin Writers

Supporting Wisconsin writers from 1964 to 2022

USA Best Book Awards

by

2 Wisconsin Writers Win National Accolades

Not one, but two Wisconsin writers are finalists in the 2015 USA Best Book Awards.

Kathleen Ernst’s A Settler’s Year: Pioneer Life Through the Seasons  Front cover of the non-fiction book A Settler's Year: Pioneer Life Through The Seasons, written by bestselling author Kathleen Ernst, illustrated with photographs by Loyd Heath, and published in 2015 by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

and Jerry Apps’ Wisconsin Agriculture: A History  ,

both published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press, are two of six finalists for this award in the U.S. History category.

Kathleen and Jerry are both former winners of multiple CWW awards for their writing. Read about them and the rules for awards contests for work published in 2015 at http://www.wiswriters.org/awards.htm. Entries are being accepted until Feb. 1, 2016.