[Between C.C. Finlay (writer and F&SF editor) accepting the award on behalf of Rae Carson, and Joe R. Lansdale winning, a western-flavored issue of F&SF would seem almost a natural consequence... TM]

http://westernwriters.org/winners/

2016
Best Western Historical Novel

Winner:	Paradise Sky	Joe R. Lansdale	Mulholland Books
Finalist:	The Memory Weaver: A Novel	Jane Kirkpatrick	Revell
Finalist:	Custer	Gerald Duff	TCU Press


Best Western Contemporary Novel

Winner:	Crazy Mountain Kiss: A Sean Stranahan Mystery	Keith McCafferty	Viking
Finalist:	The Canyon: A Novel	Stanley Crawford	University of New Mexico Press
Finalist:	The Darkness Rolling	Win Blevins and Meredith Blevin	Forge


Best Western Traditional Novel

Winner:	The Last Midwife	Sandra Dallas	St. Martin’s Press
Finalist:	The Long High Noon	Loren D. Estleman	Forge
Finalist:	Buell: Journey to the White Clouds	Wallace J. Swenson	Five Star Publishing


Best Mass-Market Paperback Novel

Winner:	Lords of an Empty Land	Randy Denmon	Pinnacle
Finalist:	Frontier	S.K. Salzer	Pinnacle
Finalist:	Frontier: Thunder at Dawn	S.K. Salzer	Pinnacle


Best Western Biography

Winner:	Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America	T.J. Stiles	Alfred A. Knopf
Finalist:	The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars	Paul Magid	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Juan Bautista De Anza: The King’s Governor in New Mexico	Carlos R. Herrera	University of Oklahoma Press


Best Western Historical Nonfiction

Winner:	William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest	William Heath	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey	Rinker Buck	Simon & Schuster
Finalist:	Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest	Lesley Poling-Kempes	University of Arizona Press


Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction

Winner:	The Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin	Leisl Carr Childers	University of Oklahoma Press
Finalist:	Unbranded	Ben Masters	Texas A&M University Press
Finalist:	Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River	Kenna Lang Archer	University of New Mexico Press


Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction

Winner:	This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon	Nancy Plain	University of Nebraska Press
Finalist:	Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them	Terri Farley	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Finalist:	Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People	S.D. Nelson	Abrams Books for Young Readers


Best Western Juvenile Fiction

Winner:	Walk on Earth A Stranger	Rae Carson	Greenwillow Books
Finalist:	Chili Queen: Mi Historia	Marian L. Martinello	TCU Press
Finalist:	Rawhide Robinson Rides the Tabby Trail: The True Tale of a Wild West CATastrophe	Rod Miller	Five Star Publishing


Best Western Storyteller (llustrated Children’s Book)

Winner:	Buckaroo Bobbie Sue	JoJo Thoreau (author) Kristina Zack Young (illustrator)	Little Hands Press
Finalist:	Ol’ Jimmy Dollar	Slim Randles (author) Jerry Montoya (illustrator)	Rio Grande Books
Finalist:	The Hero Twins: A Navajo-English Story of the Monster Slayers	Jim Kristofic (author) Nolan Karras James (illustrator)	New Mexico Press


Best Western Short Nonfiction

Winner:	“Cowboys and Capitalists: The XIT Ranch in Texas and Montana, 1885-1912”	Michael M. Miller	Montana, The Magazine of Western History
Finalist:	“Where the Pronghorns Play”	Dan Flores	Wild West magazine
Finalist:	“Wage Work in the Sacred Circle: The Ghost Dance as Modern Religion”	Louis S. Warren	Western Historical Quarterly


Best Western Short Fiction Story

Winner:	“The Scalper”	Richard Prosch	Western Trail Blazer
Finalist:	“Tinsel Town”	Deborah Morgan	Crossroad Press Publishing
Finalist:	“Tough”	Miles Wilson	The Georgia Review


Best Western Song

Winner:	“The Hand”	Trinity Seely and Waddie Mitchell	Bucket Bail Press
Finalist:	“Dad’s Song”	Caitlyn Taussig	Self Published
Finalist:	“Parker Eyes of Blue”	Almeda Bradshaw	Bendiksen Productions


Best Western Poem

Winner:	“All-American Biography”	Paige Buffington	Narrative magazine
Finalist:	“A Trailside Boulder Story”	Joel Nelson	C.J. Hadley and Range magazine
Finalist:	“Woe to the Land Shadowing”	Red Shuttleworth	Blue Horse Press


Best Western Drama Script

Winner:	“Slow West”	John Maclean	See Saw Films/Film 4/New Zealand Film Commission; A24
Finalist:	“The Revenant”	Mark L. Smith and Alejandro G. Innaritu	Anonymous Content/Appian Way/Regency Pictures/Rat Pac Entertainment; 20th Century-Fox
Finalist:	“Bone Tomahawk”	S. Craig Zahler	Caliber Media; RLJ Entertainment


Best Western Documentary Script

Winner:	“Power’s War”	Dodge Billingsley and Cameron Trejo	Amistad Entertainment LLC
Finalist:	“Murder on the Southern Pacific”	Kami Horton	Oregon Public Broadcasting
Finalist:	“Unbranded”	Ben Masters	Fin & Fur Films/Implement Productions/Cedar Creek Productions; Gravitas Ventures


Best First Novel

Winner:	American Copper	Shann Ray	Unbridled Books


Best First Nonfiction Book

Winner:	William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest  William Heath	University of Oklahoma Press


--forwarded by Todd Mason
https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2016/06/tuesdays-overlooked-av-films-television_28.html
http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2016/06/fridays-forgotten-books-links.html
http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2016/06/ffm-silver-anniversary-issues-of-f.html

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