2024 Spur Award (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

Children's Picture Book

Grandma's Tipi
(Winner)
S.D. Nelson

Wild Bill and the Pirates!
(Finalist)
Thadd Turner

Contemporary Novel

The Longmire Defense
(Winner)
Craig Johnson

Standing Dead
(Finalist)
Margaret Mizushima

Calico
(Finalist)
Lee Goldberg

First Novel

The Last Man
(Winner)
Thomas Goodman

Historical Novel

Death In The Tallgrass
(Winner)
Donald Willerton

Golddigger
(Finalist)
Kathleen Morris

The Redemption of Mattie Silks
(Finalist)
Kimberly Burns

Juvenile Fiction

A Sky Full of Song
(Winner)
Susan Lynn Meyer

The Worst Enemy
(Finalist)
Jennifer Bohnhoff

Tales of Tom Mix: The Wild West Christmas
(Finalist)
Scott McCrea

Mass Market Paperback Novel

Gunmetal Mountain
(Winner)
John Shirley

A Short Rope for a Tall Man
(Finalist)
Nate Morgan

To Hell and Gone
(Finalist)
Charles G. West

Romance Novel

Love on Target
(Winner)
Shanna Hatfield

The Heart Beneath the Badge
(Winner)
George T. Arnold

The Bundling Year
(Finalist)
Anne Schroeder

Chase Cooper
(Finalist)
Lynn Eldridge

Short Story

Bad Choices
(Winner)
W. Michael Gear

The Desert Jewel
(Finalist)
Leah Angstman

Hair of the Dog
(Finalist)
Peter Brandvold

Traditional Novel

Aesop's Travels
(Winner)
Daniel Boyd

Jane Fury
(Finalist)
James Robert Daniels

Grizzly Moon
(Finalist)
Patrick Dearen

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

Award Years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

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