Norah Charles

"The Center of the American West's Thompson Awards provided me the rare opportunity to share my creative work with a community of like-minded readers whose love of the Western spirit and landscape ensure artistic works exploring this region remain a part of our contemporary dialogue."

~Norah Charles

2006 Thompson Award Winner

Past Winners

2011

First Prize – Poetry

Michele Battiste
“The Winds Were Born”





First Prize – Memoir

Adrianne Kroepsch
“Boxing Season”



First Prize – Undergraduate Academic Nonfiction

Karmen Lee Franklin
“Coffin’s Shore: The Battle that Wrought Colorado’s Water Law”


First Prize – Undergraduate Fiction

Kiah Karlsson
“Closing up Shop”


First Prize – Graduate Academic Nonfiction

David A. Varel
“Defusing Labor Radicalism: The Dime Novel Outlaw & Modernity, 1877-83″



First Prize – Creative Nonfiction

Annika Schaffroth
“The Five Miler: A Run Through Redlands”





Honorable Mention – Poetry

Rachel Austin
“Canyon Kyrielle”


Honorable Mention – Memoir

Jerry Morris
“Untitled”



Honorable Mention – Undergraduate Academic Nonfiction

Kiah Karlsson
“Borders, Nationalities, and Resistance: The San Patricios Brigade and Immigrant Soldier Defection in the Mexican-American War”


Honorable Mention – Undergraduate Fiction

Lindsey Shoemaker
“Invisible Spurs”