Spur Award - Storyteller (Awarded by Western Writers of America)

Awards List

2022

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

2021

Run Cow Run
(Winner )
Cami Carlson

Bandit the Cow Dog
(Finalist)
Phi Mills Jr.

Bolo the Brave
(Finalist)
Jim Jones

2018

Fergus and the Greener Grass
(Winner)
Jean Abernethy

Lexie the Word Wrangler
(Finalist)
Rebecca Van Slyke

2017

Seasons of the Bear
(Winner)
Ginger Wadsworth

Big Buckaroo Goes to the Special Olympics
(Finalist)
Rachelle (Rocky) Gibbons

2016

The Hero Twins
(Finalist)
Jim Kristofic

2015

Alice from Dallas
(Finalist)
Marilyn Sadler

Tumbleweed Baby
(Finalist)
Anna Myers

2014

Yosemite's Songster: One Coyote's Story
(Winner)
Ginger Wadsworth

Standing in for Lincoln Green
(Finalist)
David Mackintosh

May Finds Her Way
(Finalist)
Betty Selakovich Casey

2013

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

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

2012

Tornado Slim and the Magic Cowboy Hat
(Winner)
Bryan Langdo

The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town
(Finalist)
Mary Casanova

2011

A Night on the Range
(Winner)
Aaron Frisch

2010

Kick the Cowboy
(Finalist)
Joe Gribnau

2009

Wheat Doll
(Winner)
Alison Randall

2006

Phoebe and Chub
(Finalist)
Matthew Henry Hall; Sheila Aldridge

2005

Apples to Oregon
(Winner)
Deborah Hopkinson

2004

Star People
(Winner)
S.D. Nelson

The Dirty Cowboy
(Finalist)
Amy Timberlake

2002

Cinderdog and the Wicked Stepcat
(Finalist)
Joan Holub

1997

Worry Stone
(Winner)
Marianna Dengler

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

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