2018 Spur Award (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

Contemporary

Double Wide
(Winner)
Leo W. Banks

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

The Stone Place
(Finalist)
Randy Lee Eickhoff

First Novel

Double Wide
(Winner)
Leo W. Banks

Historical Novel

The Coming
(Winner)
David Osborne

Copper Sky
(Finalist)
Milana Marsenich

Moon Hunt
(Finalist)
Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

Juvenile Fiction

Stranded
(Winner)
Matthew P. Mayo

Viva, Rose!
(Finalist)
Susan Krawitz

Katrine: High Valley Home
(Finalist)
Joseph Dorris

Paperback Original

Hell Hath No Fury
(Winner)
Charles G. West

Valley of Bones
(Finalist)
Dusty Richards

Buzzard Bait
(Finalist)
Brett Cogburn

Romance Novel

The Promise Bride
(Winner)
Gina Welborn; Becca Whitham

Courting Carrie in Wonderland
(Finalist)
Carla Kelly

Storyteller

Fergus and the Greener Grass
(Winner)
Jean Abernethy

Lexie the Word Wrangler
(Finalist)
Rebecca Van Slyke

Traditional

Silver City
(Winner)
Jeff Guinn

Huck Out West
(Finalist)
Robert Coover

Slate Creek
(Finalist)
Wallace J. Swenson

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

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