Western Writers of America- Vegas Convention Dates: June 25-29, 2013 Riviera Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, Navada

WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA

Western literature is of the spirit, our spirit, the spirit of America

Membership is open to published writers, whose subject matter deals with the American West

Literature of the West for the World

That describes the collective product of WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICAN members.

Founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and bestow Spur Awards for distinguished writing in the Western field, WWA today has more than 699 members worldwide.

Members include:

Screen Writers  Kirk Ellis (JOHN ADAMS) and Miles Swarthout (THE SHOOTIST)

Best-selling novelists   C.J. Box (FORCE OF NATURE), Bill Gulick (BEND OF THE SNAKE), Lucia St. Clair Robson (RIDE THE WIND)

Historians  Robert J. Conley (THE CHEROKEE NATION: A HISTORY), Paul Andrew Hutton (THE CUSTER READER), Candy Moulton (CHIEF JOSEPH: GUARDIAN OF THE PEOPLE)

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Encampment, Wy 82325

Vegas convention dates:

JUNE 25-29, 2013

Las Vegas, Nevada

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Western Writers of America- ROUNDUP! Great Stories of the West from Today’s Leading Western Writers

ROUNDUP!

Western writers of America Presents

Great Stories of the West from Today’s Leading Western Writers

Edited with an Introduction by Paul Andrew Hutton

For more than 50 years the Western Writers of America (WWA) has celbrated the rich heritage of the American West. From Native Americans, famed frontiersmen, cowboys and outlaws, to contemporary tales of ranching, lost treasure, and urban challenges, the WWA now presents ROUNDUP!- the full range of the American West as told in fiction and non-fiction short stories and poetry written by twenty-seven of today’s top Western writers.

Featuring WWA Wistern-Award-Winning Authors:

. Elmer Kelton (in his final WWA publication)

. Robert M. Utley (America’s most distinguished historian of the West)

. Matt Braun (best-selling author with over 40 million books in print)

. Richard Wheeler (five-time WWA Spur Award winner)

. Andrew J Fenady (legendary Hollywood writer/producer of TV’s THE REBEL, BRANDED, and HONDO and the classic John wayne film CHISUM)

“The Western story is America- it defines who are are as a people, no matter where we or our ancestors came from. The stories and poems in this anthology-illuminating the past, redeeming the present, grieving and celbrating, informing and entertaining- are reflective of that grand tradition.”- Paul Andrew Hutton, ROUNDUP! editor, WWA Past President and four-time Spur Award winner, noted television personality, and TRUE WEST Historical Consultant

Paperback 6×9 328 pages ISBN 978-0-9785634-7-9

Published by La Frontera Publishing
Cheyenne, Wyoming

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Western Writers of America- 2010 SPUR AWARD WINNERS & FINALISTS

2010 SPUR AWARD WINNERS

Best Long Novel

ECHOES OF GLORY
by Robert Flynn
TCU Press

Finalists

ONE EYED JACKS
by Bob Cherry
Cicada Wing

TENDERFOOT
by Mary E. Trimble
Treble Heart

Best Short Novel

FAR BRIGHT STAR
by Robert Olmstead
Algonquin Books

Finalists

WILD SORROW
by Sandi Ault
Berkley Prime Crime

SPOON
by Robert Greer
Fulcrum Publishing

Best Mass Market Paperback

STRANGER IN THUNDER BASIN
by John D. Nesbitt
Dorchester Publishing

Finalists

HANGING JUDGE
by Lyle Brandt
Penguin/Berkley

A COLD PLACE IN HELL
by William Blinn
Pinnacle/Kensington

Best Nonfiction Biography

PEG LEG
by David C. Humphrey
Texas State Historical Association

Finalists

AS BIG AS THE WEST
by Clyde Milner and Carol O’Connor
Oxford University Press

MORMON CONVER, MORMON DEFECTOR
by Polly Aird
Arthur H. Clark

Best Nonfiction Historical

FORT LARAMIE
by Doublas C. McChristian
Arthur H. Clark

Finalists

DODGE CITY: THE EARLY YEARS, 1872-1886
by William B. Shillingberg
Arthur H. Clark

CROSSING THE pLAINS WITH CUSTER
by Paul Horsted, Ernest Grafe and Jon Nelson
Golden Valley Press

Best Nonfiction Contemporary

THE SECRET WAR IN EL PASO
by Charles H. Harris, III and Louis R. sadler
University of New Mexico Press

Finalists

BORDERLINE AMERICANS
by Katherine Benton-Cohen
Harvard University Press

THE BIG BURN
by Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Best Short Nonfiction

“TEDDY’S RIDE TO RECOVERY”
by Roger Di Silvestro
WILD WEST/ Weider History Group

“REJOICING IN THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE: THE IMAGE OF THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE DURING THE FUR TRADE”
by Kery Oman
GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

“THESE MEN PLAY REAL POLO: AN ELITE SPORT IN THE COWYBOY STATE, 1890-1930
by Michael A. Amundson
MONTANA: THE MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY

Best Short Fiction
“AT THE END OF THE ORCHARD”
by John D. Nesbitt
HARDBOILED

Finalists

“HALF A PIG”
by Matthew Mayo
EXPRESS WESTERNS

“AS IS”
by J.J. Clark
HIGH DESERT JOURNAL

Best Juvenile Fiction

HARD WINTER
by Johnny D. Boggs
Gale/Five Star

Finalists

THE DEVIL’S PAINTBOX
by Victoria McKennan
Alfred A. Knopf

JOURNEY TO GOLIAD
by Melodie Cuate
Texas Texh Press

Best Juvenile Nonfiction

WITH ONE SKY ABOVE US
by Nancy Plain
Mondo Publishing

Finalists

ARIZONA: NATIONS AND ARTS
by Annica Benning
Walnut Canyon Press

BEFORE COLUMBUS
by Charles C. Mann
Atheneum/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Best Storyteller
FINDING SUSIE
by Sandra Day O’Connor and tom Pohrt
Random House Children’s Books

Finalists

KICK THE COWBOY
by Joe Gribnau and Adrian tans
Pelican Publishing

BAD NEWS FOR OUTLAWS
by Vaunda Nelson and R. Gregory Christie
Lerner Publishing

Best Documentary

IN PURSUIT OF A DREAM
by Candy Moulton
Boston Productions, Inc. for the Oregon-California Trails Association

Finalists

WE SHALL REMAIN: TECUMSEH’S VISION
by Rie Burns
WGBH

BORN TO RIDE
by Lyman Hafen
Southern Utah University

Best Poem

“BOB DYLAN BRONC SONG”
by Paul Zarzyski
Two Medicine

Finalist

“WHERE THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD TURNS WEST”
by David Memmott
Wordcraft of Oregon

“GLASS MOUNTAINS”
by Larry D. Thomas
SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Best Audiobook

RIVER THUNDER
by Gary McCarthy
Books in Motion

Finalists

MUNDY’S LAW
by Monty McCord
Books in Motion

WHERE A GOOD WIND BLOWS
by Phil Mills, Jr.
Books in Motion

Best Song

HANG-N-RATTLE
by Wylie Gustafson and Paul Zarzyski
Two Medicine Music/Bucking Horse Moon Music

Finalists

STEAMBOAT
by Steve Moulton
Butch Hause/ The Ranger Station

PETE FRENCH
Daron Little
Self-published

Western Writers of America- 2008 SPUR AWARDS WINNERS

      2008 SPUR AWARDS WINNERS

      Best Western Long Novel- THE GOD OF ANIMALS by Aryn Kyle, Scribner Press

      Best Western Short Novel- TALLGRASS by Sandra Dallas, St. Martin’s Press 

      Best Original Paperback Novel- HELLFIRE CANYON by Max McCoy, Kensington/Pinnacle Books 

      Best First Novel- THE NIGHT BIRDS by Thomas Maltman, Soho Press

      Best Western Nonfiction-Historical- CREATING MINNESOTA by Annette Atkins, Minnosota Historical Society Press

      Best Western Nonfiction-Contemporary- LONE STAR LAWMEN: THE SECOND CENTURY OF THE TEXAS RANGERS by Rober M. Utley, Oxford University Press

      Best Western Nonfiction-Biography- GALL: LAKOTA WAR CHIEF by Robert W. Larson, University of Oklahoma Press

       Best Western Short Fiction- CRUCIFIXION RIVER by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, Five Star

      Best Western Short Nonfiction- SELLING THE ‘NOBLE SAVAGE’ MYTH: GEORGE CATLIN AND THE IOWA INDIANS OF EUROPE, 1843-1845 by Joseph Herring, in Kansas History

      Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction- SAGEBRUSH AND PAINTBRUSH: THE STORY OF CHARLIE RUSSELL, THE COWBOY ARTIST by Nancy Plain, Mondo Publishing

      Best Western Drama Script (Fiction)- THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD by Andrew Dominik, Warner Bros. Pictures 

      Best Western Documentary Script (Nonfiction)- MAYNARD DIXON: ART AND SPIRIT by Jayne Mckay and Daniel Dixon, Cloud World LLC 

      Poetry- EL CORRIDO DE ANTONIO BELTRAN by John Duncklee, in Open Range Ghost Road Press

      Best Western Song- “The Last Wild White Buffalo” by Mike Blakely, Quien Sabe Music/Swing Rider Records

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Western Writers of America- LITERATURE OF THE WEST FOR THE WORLD

      WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA 

      LITERATURE OF THE WEST FOR THE WORLD 

      ABOUT THE WWA-

      Western Writers of America, Inc. was founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and bestow Spur Awards for distinguished writing in the western field.  The founding members were largely authors of traditional western genre fiction, but the organization quicly expanded to include professional historians, screen and television writers, and other non-fiction authors. 

      Today, “Literature of the West for the World” describes the collective work of over 600 WWF members.  Their writings include traditional western fiction, critical analysis, biographies, histories, mysteries, romances, short stories, screenplays, documentaries, songs, and poetry. 

      The Homestead Foundation was formed to promote educatinal, scholarship and award functions.  The Fundation encourages the inclusion of Western material in school curricula. 

      WWF actively helps its members promote their books, articles and screenplays and aggressively promotes the literature of the American West. 

      The annual convention is held each June in a different city.  Members, guest, editors, and agents gather together to renew friendship;s, make important professional contacts, attend panels, go on field trips, and conduct the organization’s business.  Each convention concludes with the Spur Awards banquet, when  the organization honors the best in western writing with that coveted award. 

      The WWA Hall of Fame honors outstanding western writers from the past.  Since its founding in 1980 the Hall of Fame has inducted a distinguished list of authors.  The Hall of Fame is housed at the McCracken Library in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming. 

      Western Writers of America welcomes all published writers who derive their livelihood, in whole or in part, from writing about the land and the peoples of the American West, past and present.  Our membership includes novelists, historians, essayists, journalists, poets, screenwriters, songwriters, editors, publishers, and many others. 

            BENEFITS:

      .  All members receive a $30 subscription to ROUNDUP MAGAZINE

      .  Network with professional Western writers, editors, publishers, and agents

      .  Annual national convention

      .  WWA regional, state, and local seminars and signings 

      .  Membership fee is tax deductible

      .  Expert research assistance through forum participation

      .  Tours of historical sites at the annual convention

      .  Spur Awards 

       MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION 

      We invite you to join WWA’s growing organization which for over a half century has provided writers with a wide variety of exceptional opportunities.  As a professional writing organization, WWA maintains formal membership requirements. 

       For a membeership application please contact the WWA Membership Chair:

      Rob Miller, WWA Membership Chair 

      1665 E. Julho Street 

      Sandy, Ut 84093

      To be eligible for membership in WWA you must be published in fiction or nonfiction books or articles about the historical or contemporary West.  A subscription to the ROUNDUP MAGAZINE is included with your membership dues.  If you are interested in subscribing to the ROUNDUP MAGAZINE, the cost for six issues a year is $30.  Send subscription request to:

      Paul A. Hutton, WWA Executive Director

      MSCO6 3770

      1 University of New Mexico 

      Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

      wwa@unm.edu

      (505) 277-5234

      For more information write the WWA executive office or consult the WWA website

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