Spur Award Winners Traditional Novel

Awards List

2024

Aesop's Travels (Winner)
Daniel Boyd

Jul-2023
/ General Fiction

Jane Fury (Finalist)
James Robert Daniels

Jan-2023
/ Historical

Grizzly Moon (Finalist)
Patrick Dearen

Feb-2023
/ Historical

2023

The Secret in the Wall (Winner)
Ann Parker

Feb-2022
/ Police Procedural

A Man Called Justice (Finalist)
John Deacon

Apr-2022
/ Historical

All My Sins Remembered (Finalist)
Peter Brandvold

Oct-2022
/ Historical

2022

The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint (Winner )
Chase Pletts

Sep-2021
/ Historical

Deputized (Finalist)
T.L. Davis

Mar-2021
/ Historical

The Comanche Kid (Finalist)
James Robert Daniels

May-2021
/ Historical

2021

Like Rum-Drunk Angels (Winner )
Tyler Enfield

Mar-2020
/ Historical

The Fortunes and Vicissitudes of Stern Whitman (Finalist)
Derek Burnett

Nov-2020
/ General Fiction

All Gods Children (Finalist)
Aaron Gwyn

2021
/ Historical

2020

Cherokee America (Winner )
Margaret Verble

Feb-2019
/ Historical

All Man's Land (Finalist)
D. Laszlo Conhaim

Jun-2019
/ General Fiction

Friends Call Me Bat (Finalist)
Paul Colt

Jun-2019
/ General Fiction

2019

The Return of Kid Cooper (Winner )
Brad Smith

Feb-2018
/ Historical

The River by Starlight (Finalist)
Ellen Notbohm

May-2018
/ Historical

Born to the Badge (Finalist)
Mark Warren

Nov-2018
/ General Fiction

2018

Silver City (Winner)
Jeff Guinn

Jan-2017
/ Historical

Huck Out West (Finalist)
Robert Coover

Jan-2017
/ Historical

Slate Creek (Finalist)
Wallace J. Swenson

Aug-2017
/ Historical

2017

The Mustanger and the Lady (Winner)
Dusty Richards

Jan-2016
/ Historical

The Contractor (Finalist)
James C. Work

Jul-2016
/ Historical

News of the World (Finalist)
Paulette Jiles

Oct-2016
/ Historical

2016

The Last Midwife (Winner)
Sandra Dallas

Oct-2015
/ Historical Mystery

The Long High Noon (Finalist)
Loren D. Estleman

May-2015
/ Historical

Buell (Finalist)
Wallace J. Swenson

Jul-2015
/ Historical

2015

The Big Drift (Winner)
Patrick Dearen

Sep-2014
/ Historical

The Poacher's Daughter (Finalist)
Michael Zimmer

Mar-2014
/ Historical

Dance with the Devil (Finalist)
J.D. March

Dec-2014
/ Historical

2014

Crossing Purgatory (Winner)
Gary Schanbacher

Jun-2013
/ Historical

Destiny Made Them Brothers (Finalist)
Andrew J. Fenady

Feb-2013
/ Western

Award Categories

Children's Picture Book

Mass Market Paperback Novel

Medicine Pipe Bearer (First Novel)

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

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

Awards List

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