The 2024 Spur Awards

The 2024 Spur Awards Winners and Finalists have been announced.

Spur Winners

• Short Fiction
• "Bad Choices: A Wyoming Chronicles Story" by W. Michael Gear, published in Ridin' with the Pack: A Western Short Story Collection

Finalists

• Romance
• Chase Cooper by Lynn Eldridge
• The Bundling Year by Anne Schroeder
• Short Fiction
• "Hair of the Dog" by Peter Brandvold, published in Ridin' with the Pack: A Western Short Story Collection

Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Spurs are given for the best western historical novel, best western traditional novel, best western contemporary novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best drama, best documentary, best poem, best song, best children’s picture book and best first novel as well as best first nonfiction book.

Congratulations to these authors on their awards!