2013 Spur Award (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Panhandle
(Winner)
Brett Cogburn

Wide Open
(Finalist)
Larry Bjornson

The Orchardist
(Finalist)
Amanda Coplin

Juvenile Fiction

Wide Open
(Winner)
Larry Bjornson

Blooming Prairie
(Finalist)
Candace Simar

And There I'll Be a Soldier
(Finalist)
Johnny D. Boggs

Long Novel

With Blood in Their Eyes
(Winner)
Thomas Cobb

Country of the Bad Wolfes
(Finalist)
James Carlos Blake

The Orchardist
(Finalist)
Amanda Coplin

Paperback Original

The Coyote Tracker
(Winner)
Larry D. Sweazy

Hunters
(Finalist)
James Reasoner

The Secret of Lodestar
(Finalist)
Tim Champlin

Short Novel

City of Rocks
(Finalist)
Michael Zimmer

Lonesome Animals
(Finalist)
Bruce Holbert

Storyteller

Pecos Bill Invents the Ten-Gallon Hat
(Winner)
Kevin Strauss

Big Buckaroo & Moose the Cow Dog
(Finalist)
Rachelle Gibbons

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

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