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Peter Leavell, a Boise State University history graduate, has been named the winner of the Christian Writer’s Guild 2011 Operation First Novel contest!  Leavell will receive $20,000 and his novel, Gideon’s Call, is being published by Worthy Publishing and will be available fall 2012.  Gideon’s Call is a historical fiction set during the Civil War.
For more information read the article A Passion for History.
Congratulations Peter!