AWARDS

Matthew P. Mayo

2022 Spur Award Finalist, Western Writers of America, Best Mass Market Paperback Novel, for The Too-Late Trail

2021 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction for Dilly

2021 Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award for Young Adult Western Fiction for Dilly

2021 High Plains Books Award, finalist, for Young Adult Book for Dilly

2020 Will Rogers Bronze Medallion Award for Western Short Story Peaches

2018 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2018 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2018 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Young Adult Western Novel for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2018 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction by Women Writing the West for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2018 High Plains Books Award for Young Adult Book for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2018 Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for Young Adult Western Fiction Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2018 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, Silver, for Young Adult Historical Fiction for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2018 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best Western Novel for Timberline (A Roamer Western)

2018 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, Silver, for Young Adult Historical Fiction for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2017 LitPick 5-Star Award for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival

2017 Norton Island Artists’ Residency

2013 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel for Tucker’s Reckoning

2010 Finalist, Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Short Fiction for “Scourge of the Spoils”

2010 Finalist, Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Short Fiction for “Half a Pig”