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Spur Awards

10:21 AM Wed, Apr 02, 2008 |
Michael Merschel   E-mail   News tips

The Western Writers of America recently announced their annual Spur Awards.

Sandra Dallas's "Tallgrass" won for Best Western Short Novel.

Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers won for Best Western Nonfiction-Contemporary.

Aryn Kyle's "The God of Animals" won for Best Western Long Novel.

Among other Texas-related nominees: Mike Kearby, was a finalist in the juveinille fiction category for "Ambush at Mustang Canyon," as was
Arturo O. Martinez for "Pedrito's World," which was published by Texas Tech University Press. Stephen L. Hardin was a finalist in the historical nonfiction category for "Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston."

[Updated Wednesday 10:50 a.m. -- the link to the Spur site is operating now.]



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