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Highlighting Baird Nursing Home Resident’s Successful Writing Career
Danielle Lorenzo Apr 6, 2018
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Paul Bagdon has sold roughly 50 books and over 250 of his short stories and articles have appeared in magazines over the course of his career. The writer was a finalist for the Spur award which is given by the Western Writers of America and honors distinguished writing about the American West. Paul now resides at the Baird Nursing Home, still enjoying reading and composing stories.
Danielle Lorenzo Apr 6, 2018
Genessee Vally Penny Saver
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Paul Bagdon has sold roughly 50 books and over 250 of his short stories and articles have appeared in magazines over the course of his career. The writer was a finalist for the Spur award which is given by the Western Writers of America and honors distinguished writing about the American West. Paul now resides at the Baird Nursing Home, still enjoying reading and composing stories.
PAUL BAGDON NAMED “2007 SPUR AWARD” FINALIST
FOR BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK IN WESTERN WRITING
April 1, 2007 – ROCHESTER, NY. Local Western Author Paul Bagdon’s 2006 novel, Deserter, has been chosen as a national 2007 Spur Award finalist. The Spur Award is awarded by Western Writers of America (WWA), a 500 member professional trade association representing the western genre.
The Spur Award is considered one of the oldest and most prestigious in American literature. In 1953, when the awards were established by WWA, western fiction was a staple of American publishing. At the time awards were given to the best western novel, best historical novel, best juvenile, and best short story. Since then the awards have been broadened to include other types of writing about the West. Today, Spurs are offered for the best western novel (short novel), best novel of the west (long novel), best original paperback novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best TV or motion picture drama, best TV or motion picture documentary, and best first novel (called The Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award).
Paul Bagdon’s, Deserter, published by Dorchester in 2006, won the distinction of finalist in the category of Best Original Paperback.
Winners of the Spur Awards in previous years include Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances With Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalker.
Paul Bagdon, a former horseman and rodeo champion is author of over 30 novels, and a lifelong resident of Rochester, NY, where he currently teaches writing. He is currently working on a sequel to his 2006 novel, Partners, also published by Dorchester. He also writes Christian Romance under a pen name: Paige Lee Elliston.
The author’s website is www.paulbagdon.com. For more information on the contest, visit www.westernwriters.org.
FOR BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK IN WESTERN WRITING
April 1, 2007 – ROCHESTER, NY. Local Western Author Paul Bagdon’s 2006 novel, Deserter, has been chosen as a national 2007 Spur Award finalist. The Spur Award is awarded by Western Writers of America (WWA), a 500 member professional trade association representing the western genre.
The Spur Award is considered one of the oldest and most prestigious in American literature. In 1953, when the awards were established by WWA, western fiction was a staple of American publishing. At the time awards were given to the best western novel, best historical novel, best juvenile, and best short story. Since then the awards have been broadened to include other types of writing about the West. Today, Spurs are offered for the best western novel (short novel), best novel of the west (long novel), best original paperback novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best TV or motion picture drama, best TV or motion picture documentary, and best first novel (called The Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award).
Paul Bagdon’s, Deserter, published by Dorchester in 2006, won the distinction of finalist in the category of Best Original Paperback.
Winners of the Spur Awards in previous years include Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances With Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalker.
Paul Bagdon, a former horseman and rodeo champion is author of over 30 novels, and a lifelong resident of Rochester, NY, where he currently teaches writing. He is currently working on a sequel to his 2006 novel, Partners, also published by Dorchester. He also writes Christian Romance under a pen name: Paige Lee Elliston.
The author’s website is www.paulbagdon.com. For more information on the contest, visit www.westernwriters.org.
