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Western Writers of America Announces 2025 Spur Award Winners and Finalists
TUCSON, Arizona – Four-time Academy Award-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen is receiving Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Drama Script for The Dead Don’t Hurt, a film in which he also starred, directed, produced, and wrote the musical score. Winners and finalists were announced Saturday, March 15, at the Tucson Festival of Books. Spur judges said the screenplay for The Dead Don’t Hurt (Talipot Studio/Recorded Picture Company/Perceval Pictures/Shout! Studios) “reads like prose fiction,Continue Reading
2024 WWA Spur Award Ceremony
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Western literature ranges far and wide across Western America. It includes many styles, from traditional western fiction to penetrating historical analysis, from mysteries to biographies, from romance to short stories, and from screenplays and documentaries to short stories, poetry, and songs. The Western literature our members create encompasses yesterday and today and imagines tomorrow. It is the literature of America’s society. Our members seek to uncover new facts, deal with new issues, seek more understanding, and offer more for readers to enjoy. Literature of the West for the World® describes the collective product of WWA members. Click below to learn more!
This is WWA today:
- Annual Convention involving editors, agents, and offering sessions on the business of writing, history, and marketing
- Spur Awards program
- Educational Symposia
- Promotion of the Literature of the American West, this country’s unique contribution to world literature
- More than 700 members from around the world
- Packing the West Educational Program
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The WWA is an inclusive, welcoming group whose members live all over the U.S., not to mention Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. You’ll make friends, have fun, promote your work, and have the chance to hang out with some of the brightest people in the Western literature field.
Today we have more than 700 members, many of whom have garnered awards and made The New York Times best-sellers list. Click below to learn more about the benefits of membership and how you can take your place among the legends of Western writing!
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