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

Awards List

2024

Aesop's Travels
(Winner)
Daniel Boyd

Jane Fury
(Finalist)
James Robert Daniels

Grizzly Moon
(Finalist)
Patrick Dearen

2023

The Secret in the Wall
(Winner)
Ann Parker

A Man Called Justice
(Finalist)
John Deacon

All My Sins Remembered
(Finalist)
Peter Brandvold

2022

The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint
(Winner )
Chase Pletts

Deputized
(Finalist)
T.L. Davis

The Comanche Kid
(Finalist)
James Robert Daniels

2021

Like Rum-Drunk Angels
(Winner )
Tyler Enfield

The Fortunes and Vicissitudes of Stern Whitman
(Finalist)
Derek Burnett

All Gods Children
(Finalist)
Aaron Gwyn

2020

Cherokee America
(Winner )
Margaret Verble

All Man's Land
(Finalist)
D. Laszlo Conhaim

Friends Call Me Bat
(Finalist)
Paul Colt

2019

The Return of Kid Cooper
(Winner )
Brad Smith

The River by Starlight
(Finalist)
Ellen Notbohm

Born to the Badge
(Finalist)
Mark Warren

2018

Silver City
(Winner)
Jeff Guinn

Huck Out West
(Finalist)
Robert Coover

Slate Creek
(Finalist)
Wallace J. Swenson

2017

The Mustanger and the Lady
(Winner)
Dusty Richards

The Contractor
(Finalist)
James C. Work

News of the World
(Finalist)
Paulette Jiles

2016

The Last Midwife
(Winner)
Sandra Dallas

The Long High Noon
(Finalist)
Loren D. Estleman

Buell
(Finalist)
Wallace J. Swenson

2015

The Big Drift
(Winner)
Patrick Dearen

The Poacher's Daughter
(Finalist)
Michael Zimmer

Dance with the Devil
(Finalist)
J.D. March

2014

Crossing Purgatory
(Winner)
Gary Schanbacher

Destiny Made Them Brothers
(Finalist)
Andrew J. Fenady

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

2014

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