2023 Spur Award (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

Children's Picture Book

The Rowdy Randy Wild West Show
(Winner)
Casey Rislov

Buzz the Not-So-Brave
(Finalist)
Dani Nichols

Contemporary Novel

Beasts of the Earth
(Winner)
James Wade

Blind Eye
(Finalist)
Martha Burns

River Woman, River Demon
(Finalist)
Jennifer Givhan

First Novel

Proving Her Claim
(Winner)
C.K. Van Dam

Historical Novel

Properties of Thirst
(Winner)
Marianne Wiggins

Pony Boys
(Finalist)
Richard Prosch

Justice for All: The Search for Big Poker Tom
(Finalist)
Wayne E. Purcell

Juvenile Fiction

Wish Upon a Crawdad
(Winner)
Curtis W. Condon

Where Duty Calls
(Finalist)
Jennifer Bohnhoff

Tenmile
(Finalist)
Sandra Dallas

Mass Market Paperback Novel

Dead Man's Trail
(Winner)
Nate Morgan

The Unlikely Lawman
(Finalist)
Steve Kelton

Romance Novel

Proving Her Claim
(Winner)
C.K. Van Dam

Hearts and Mountains
(Finalist)
Lynn Eldridge

Yet I Will Love Him
(Finalist)
Carla Kelly

Short Story

No Quarter
(Winner)
Kathleen O'Neal Gear

The Cobbler of Spanish Fort
(Finalist)
Johnny D. Boggs

Lizzie Noel
(Finalist)
Charlotte Hinger

Traditional Novel

The Secret in the Wall
(Winner)
Ann Parker

A Man Called Justice
(Finalist)
John Deacon

All My Sins Remembered
(Finalist)
Peter Brandvold

Award Categories

Children's Picture Book

Children-Y/A Fiction

Contemporary Novel

First Novel

Historical Novel

Juvenile Fiction

Long Novel

Mass Market Paperback Novel

Medicine Pipe Bearer (First Novel)

Novel of the West

Romance Novel

Short Novel

Short Story

Storyteller

Traditional Novel

Western Juv Fic

Western Long Novel

Western Novel

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