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Short Fiction Awards for 2020

July 14, 2020 / John D. Nesbitt / 0 Comments

Like last year but quite different, this year has been a good year for me with awards. My short story “Return to Laurel” was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction Story and was also a finalist for the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Short Fiction. My novella “Leaving the Lariat Trail” won the Peacemaker Award for Best Short Fiction. Any one of these distinctions would give me an occasion to be thankful, and so I am appreciative three times over.

Dangerous Trails Commentary

July 7, 2020 / John D. Nesbitt / 0 Comments

Dangerous Trails, published by Prairie Rose Publications in June 2020, is a collection of twelve western short stories that (with one small exception) I wrote since my last collection (Blue Horse Mesa) came out in 2013. This is my third collection of western short stories and my eleventh collection of short fiction. It includes “Return to Laurel,” which was a Western Writers of America Spur Award finalist and a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award finalist, both in 2020.

I’ll Tell You What Commentary

April 19, 2019 / John D. Nesbitt / 0 Comments

I’ll Tell You What is a collection of short stories that I brought out myself in the summer of 1996. It consists of fourteen stories, eight of them previously published, and it was a bit of a lark to publish.

Seasons in the Fields Commentary

April 19, 2019 / John D. Nesbitt / 0 Comments

Seasons in the Fields is a collection of short fiction set in the farm and ranch country of California where I grew up. This book consists of thirteen stories, nine of which were previously published. I brought out these stories as a collection in the spring of 1998 so that I could promote it along with Black Diamond Rendezvous, a paperback western that came out in May of the same year.

Shadows on the Plain Commentary

April 19, 2019 / John D. Nesbitt / 0 Comments

Shadows on the Plain, published in 2005 by Endeavor Books, is my fifth collection of short stories. As with my previous collection Antelope Sky, these stories are set in the contemporary West, for the most part Wyoming, although a couple of the characters travel from there to other places.

One Foot in the Stirrup Commentary

April 18, 2019 / John D. Nesbitt / 0 Comments

One Foot in the Stirrup is a collection of western short stories that I first brought out myself in the fall of 1995. It consists of nine stories, six of them previously published, and it has been a nice little book for me.

Tag: short story collection

Short Fiction Awards for 2020

Dangerous Trails Commentary

I’ll Tell You What Commentary

Seasons in the Fields Commentary

Shadows on the Plain Commentary

One Foot in the Stirrup Commentary

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