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

Awards List

2024

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

2023

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

Hearts and Mountains
(Finalist)
Lynn Eldridge

Yet I Will Love Him
(Finalist)
Carla Kelly

2022

Imperfect Promise
(Winner )
Susanna Lane

The Transformation of Chastity James
(Finalist)
Kathleen Morris

Madame's Daughter
(Finalist)
C.K. Crigger

LAND OF HEROES
(Finalist)
Dorothy Wiley

2021

Midnight's Whisperer
(Winner )
Tom Lowe

Forever Hidden
(Finalist)
Tracie Peterson; Kimberley Woodhouse

The Valley of Deision
(Finalist)
Major Mitchell

2020

The Yeggman's Apprentice
(Winner)
C.K. Crigger

This New Day
(Finalist)
Harlan Hague

The Telegraph Proposal
(Finalist)
Gina Welborn; Becca Whitham

2019

The Woman Who Built A Bridge
(Winner)
C.K. Crigger

Courting Carrie in Wonderland
(Finalist)
Carla Kelly

Out of the Ashes
(Finalist)
Tracie Peterson; Kimberley Woodhouse

2018

The Promise Bride
(Winner)
Gina Welborn; Becca Whitham

Courting Carrie in Wonderland
(Finalist)
Carla Kelly

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

2019

2018

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