2022 Spur Award (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

Contemporary Novel

Dark Sky
(Winner )
C.J. Box

Dissolution
(Finalist)
W. Michael Gear

A Particular Madness
(Finalist)
Sheldon Russell

First Novel

The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint
(Winner)
Chase Pletts

Historical Novel

Ridgeline
(Winner )
Michael Punke

The Healing of Natalie Curtis
(Finalist)
Jane Kirkpatrick

Last Comanche Warrior
(Finalist)
James D. Crownover

Juvenile Fiction

Cow Boyhood
(Winner )
S.J. Dahlstrom

Maddie McDowell and the Rodeo Robbery
(Finalist)
LuAnn M. Rod

Bats, Bandits & Buggies: A Ruby and Maude Adventure
(Finalist)
Nancy Oswald

Mass Market Paperback Novel

This Side of Hell
(Winner )
Brett Cogburn

The Too-Late Trail
(Finalist)
Matthew P. Mayo

Lost Mountain Pass
(Finalist)
Larry D. Sweazy

Romance Novel

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

Short Story

Skin
(Winner )
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

Coming Clean
(Finalist)
Leslie Budewitz

The Ferry and the Road
(Finalist)
Lawrence Coates

Storyteller

Charlie Russell and the Gnomes of Bull Head Lodge
(Winner )
Emily Crawford Wilson

Come 'n Git It! Cookie and His Cowboy Chuck Wagon
(Finalist)
Jennifer Coleman

Montana's Memory Day
(Finalist)
Sue Lawrence

Traditional Novel

The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint
(Winner )
Chase Pletts

Deputized
(Finalist)
T.L. Davis

The Comanche Kid
(Finalist)
James Robert Daniels

Award Categories

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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