Spur Award - Short Story (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

2024

Bad Choices
(Winner)
W. Michael Gear

The Desert Jewel
(Finalist)
Leah Angstman

Hair of the Dog
(Finalist)
Peter Brandvold

2023

No Quarter
(Winner)
Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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

Lizzie Noel
(Finalist)
Charlotte Hinger

2022

Skin
(Winner )
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

Coming Clean
(Finalist)
Leslie Budewitz

The Ferry and the Road
(Finalist)
Lawrence Coates

2021

Belthanger
(Winner )
Kevin Wolf

Father Goose
(Finalist)
Jodi Thomas
in The Cowboy Who Saved Christmas

Statues
(Finalist)
Allen Morris Jones

2019

Buck's Last Ride
(Winner )
Therese Greenwood
  • / Historical
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Byrd's Luck
(Finalist)
Jeffrey J. Mariotte
  • / Historical
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Wren's Perch
(Finalist)
Vonn McKee
  • / Historical
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2008

Crucifixion River
(Winner)
Marcia Muller; Bill Pronzini

2007

The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers
(Finalist)
Delia Falconer

2006

Pecker's Revenge and Other Stories from the Frontier's Edge
(Winner)
Lori Van Pelt

Lone Star Law
(Finalist)
Robert J. Randisi

Big Lonesome
(Finalist)
Jim Ruland

1965

Mountain Man
(Winner)
Vardis Fisher

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

2017

2016

2015

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