Award Winners

Dave P. Fisher 

Winner of two Will Rogers Medallion Awards, one for Western Fiction with his collection of short stories Bronc Buster – Short Stories of the American West and again for Western Humor with The Auction Horse. In addition he has won 9 People’s Choice Awards for western short stories. 

Dave is one of Rope and Wire's original supporters and continues to be an active part of its success.    Dave's Full Bio. /  / Dave's LinkedIn Profile

Tom Sheehan

Nominated for the illustrious Million Writers Award twice and the coveted Pushcart Prize an impressive twenty-eight times. In addition, he has received a Silver Rose Award from American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Century (ART) and the Georges Simenon Award for Excellence in Fiction.  data-custom-mark="true"Epic Cures data-custom-mark="true", his first short story collection, also published by Press 53, received a 2006 IPPY Award Honorable Mention. 

Tom is also one of Rope and Wire's original supporters and is much appreciated for what he's done for this site.   Tom's Full Bio. /

John Duncklee

$5,000 Unrestricted fellowship for excellence in poetry:
Arizona Commission on the Arts.

Author of the Year: Friends of Branigan Memorial Library.
Las Cruces, NM

Member of the Authors Guild and Western Writers of America Spur Award for best western poem 2008 Western Writers of America.

John is another original supporter of the Rope and Wire website. His contributions have always been an inspiration.

John recently passed away. He will be missed. 

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Bill Henderson / Will Starr

Voted Best HubPages fiction writer twice! 2011 & 2014

Second Place, HubPages Creative Writing, 2011

1st place winner, 2010 Rope and Wire western short story competition.

4th place (Honorable mention), 2011 Arizona Authors, Arizona Centennial, international short story competition.

Bill's continuing support of Rope and Wire has not gone without notice. 

Thanks Bill.  

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I have several westerns on Amazon ebook and print. Three books in the Buffalo Grass Rider series, "The Lonesome Wind", "Blood on the Rosebud" and "Rough River Gold". Also "Crow Feather" and "The Reno Kid". Book one (2013) and book three (2015) of the Buffalo Grass Rider series were awarded a Will Rogers Medallion Award for western fiction. 

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Mark is a talented author who writes in more than one genre. He was awarded the 2010 Silver Medal For Fantasy/Science Fiction by Independent Publisher, the voice of the independent publishing industry.

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Jim won the 2015 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker award for Best First Novel. His book, Cattle Drive, can be found on Amazon.

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Steve won the 2014 Western Category, National Indie Excellence Award for his novel "Where They Bury You" and was a finalist in the 2015 Best Book Awards for his novel "Chief of Thieves". 

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