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

Awards List

2022

The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint
(Winner)
Chase Pletts

2021

Winter Counts
(Winner)
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

2020

On Swift Horses
(Winner )
Shannon Pufahl

2019

The River by Starlight
(Winner )
Ellen Notbohm

2018

Double Wide
(Winner)
Leo W. Banks

2017

Jasper Spring
(Winner)
James T. Hughes

2016

American Copper
(Winner)
Shann Ray

2015

Wild Ran the Rivers
(Winner)
James D. Crownover

2014

Spider Woman's Daughter
(Winner)
Anne Hillerman

Crossing Purgatory
(Finalist)
Gary Schanbacher

La Grulla
(Finalist)
John R. Wright

2013

Panhandle
(Winner)
Brett Cogburn

Wide Open
(Finalist)
Larry Bjornson

The Orchardist
(Finalist)
Amanda Coplin

2011

Galveston
(Winner)
Nic Pizzolatto

2009

God's Thunderbolt
(Winner)
Carol Buchanan

Undiscovered Country
(Finalist)
Lin Enger

The Buffalo Rock
(Finalist)
Bob Faulkner

2008

Night Birds
(Winner)
Thomas Maltman

Turpentine
(Finalist)
Spring Warren

2007

Elsie's Business:
(Finalist)
Frances Washburn

The X-Indian Chronicles
(Finalist)
Thomas Yeahpau

2006

High Country
(Winner)
Willard Wyman

2005

Field of Honor
(Winner)
D. L. Birchfield

Ghost Ocean
(Finalist)
Richard Benke

2001

The Chivalry of Crime
(Winner)
Desmond Barry

1998

Keepers of the Earth
(Winner)
Laverne Harrell Clark

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

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

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1999

1998