Spur Award - Contemporary Novel (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

2022

Dark Sky
(Winner )
C.J. Box

Dissolution
(Finalist)
W. Michael Gear

A Particular Madness
(Finalist)
Sheldon Russell

2021

Winter Counts
(Winner )
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

The King of Taos
(Finalist)
Max Evans

The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez
(Finalist)
Rudy Ruiz

2020

On Swift Horses
(Winner )
Shannon Pufahl

This Side of Night
(Finalist)
J. Todd Scott

Sweep Out the Ashes
(Finalist)
Mary Clearman Blew

2019

The Flicker of Old Dreams
(Winner )
Susan Henderson

Deep Fire Rise
(Finalist)
Jon Gosch

Broken Field
(Finalist)
Jeff Hull

2018

Double Wide
(Winner)
Leo W. Banks

Murder on the Red River
(Finalist)
Marcie R. Rendon

The Stone Place
(Finalist)
Randy Lee Eickhoff

2017

Off the Grid
(Winner)
C.J. Box

Hidden Star
(Finalist)
Corinne Joy Brown

Jasper Spring
(Finalist)
James T. Hughes

2016

Crazy Mountain Kiss
(Winner)
Keith McCafferty

The Canyon
(Finalist)
Stanley Crawford

The Darkness Rolling
(Finalist)
Win Blevins; Meredith Blevins

2015

Bad Country
(Winner)
C.B. McKenzie

The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band
(Finalist)
Frances Washburn

Any Other Name
(Finalist)
Craig Johnson

2014

Light of the World
(Winner)
James Lee Burke

Kind of Kin
(Finalist)
Rilla Askew

Award Categories

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

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

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