Donald Willerton receives the SPUR award!

At the 2024 Western Writers of America Convention in June, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Don Willerton's latest book, Death In The Tallgrass, A Young Man's Journey Through The American Frontier, received the SPUR award for the Best Western Historical Fiction Novel for 2024. Craig Johnson, with his 19th installment of his Walt Longmire mysteries, The Longmire Defense, received the Best Contemporary Fiction Novel, while Dayton Duncan won the Best Western Documentary Script for Ken Burn's The American Buffalo.

Western Writers of America Inc. (WWA) was founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and to recognize the best in Western writing with the prestigious Spur Award and the Western Writers Hall of Fame. Like the Western landscape itself, WWA and the books, songs, and stories produced by its members have evolved immensely.

WWA boasts historians, nonfiction authors, young adult, romance writers, songwriters, poets, and screenwriters for film and television. Their work in every medium is set in the ever-changing American West.

Today there are more than 700 members nationwide and around the world, including C.J. Box, Anne Hillerman, Craig Johnson, Tom Clavin, Nancy Plain, Mark Hall-Patton, Thomas Cobb, Candy Moulton, Kat Martin, Kirk Ellis, Lucia St. Clair Robson, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Loren D. Estleman, Johnny D. Boggs, Paul Andrew Hutton, and Kathleen O’Neal Gear.

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