WOE TO THE LAND SHADOWING: 2016 Wrangler Award-Winner

Woe to the Land Shadowing

by Red Shuttleworth

Honored with the 2016

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Poetry

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth will receive the coveted "Wrangler" award for Woe to the Land Shadowing (published by Blue Horse Press) on April 16, 2016, at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma.  A three-time winner of Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Poetry, proclaimed "Best Living Western Poet" by True West magazine in 2007, Shuttleworth's poems have appeared in many journals, including Concho River Review, South Dakota Review, and Weber: The Contemporary West.

The Western Heritage("Wrangler") Award.

Among previous recipients of the Wrangler for Poetry are John Dofflemeyer, Linda Hussa, Larry D. Thomas, and Paul Zarzyski.

Red Shuttleworth with his Irish Wolfhound, Peaches.

Woe to the Land Shadowing can be purchased on Amazon.

DISTANCE TO EMPTY, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Distance to Empty

poems

Red Shuttleworth

Distance to Empty, poems from Red Shuttleworth to start 2016 with a near-death-lurch, is issued by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition.

The hospital journal

(January 22-28, 2016)

Road 20 -- The Road Home

Southwest of Stratford, Washington

Peaches and Red Shuttleworth, February 6, 2016,

Getting Ready to Assemble a New Chapbook.

Distance to Empty is available (briefly) by email request to Red Shuttleworth.

GATE, A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook Anthology

Gate

A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook Anthology

to Begin 2016

The poets of Gate:

Jeffrey C. Alfier

Tobi Alfier

Jonathan Chant

Dave Kelly

Louise Mathias

Rex Rodenbaugh

Red Shuttleworth

Larry D. Thomas

Gate is published in a small (66 copies) edition by Bunchgrass Press.  Copies are only available from participating poets.

CHAPBOOK #134, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook

Chapbook #134

poems

Red Shuttleworth

In the last days of December 2015, while searching for an old play in a couple of cardboard boxes, Red Shuttleworth came upon four different poetry chapbook manuscripts containing poems from before 2000... typed on an ancient Hermes 3000 manual typewriter. Trunk manuscripts for posthumous poetry booklets? Red saw that seven of the poems (with revision) could make a suite for a chapbook.

The old manuscripts found in December 2015.

The poems presented in Chapbook #134 are:

Nebraska Picture Album

Dark, Sweaty West

Old Timers

Roadkill on the Tongue

Chain of Circumstance

Christmas Poem

Cafe with Slot Machines

Chapbook #134, by Red Shuttleworth, is published in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press (January 2016).

Red Shuttleworth with his Irish Wolfhound, Peaches.

WOE TO THE LAND SHADOWING: A Red Shuttleworth Collection of Poems

Woe to the Land Shadowing

poems by

Red Shuttleworth

Woe to the Land Shadowing, a collection of poems from the Washington State 2015 fire season, published by Blue Horse Press, is available from Amazon.

Red Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the Spur Award for Poetry from Western Writers of America: Johnny Ringo (2013), Roadside Attractions (2011), and Western Settings (2001).

Shuttleworth was named "Best Living Western Poet" by True West magazine in 2007.

For decades Shuttleworth's poems, short stories, and one-act plays have been published in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Chariton Review, Concho River Review, Interim, Los Angeles Review, Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, True West, Weber: The Contemporary West and West Branch.

Red Shuttleworth with his Irish Wolfhound, Peaches

(photo by Ciara Shuttleworth)

Red Shuttleworth's plays have been widely presented, with readings and productions in both professional and academic settings, including High Plains Fandango at The State University of New York at Fredonia, Pistolero Rideaway at Sundance Playwrights Lab, and Memorabilia at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.

Red Shuttleworth

(photo by Ciara Shuttleworth)

HIGH PLAINS FANDANGO, Red Shuttleworth's Play in Paperback

High Plains Fandango

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

High Plains Fandango, Red Shuttleworth's play about the approach of water scarcity and the possible privatization of aquifers like the Ogallala Aquifer under the High Plains, is available as a paperback (cover photograph courtesy of Ed Kashi/VII) from Humanitas Media Publishing.  It can be ordered from Amazon.

Clayton Howe as "O'Garr" and Tony Taylor as "Ken Adams"

in the SUNY-Fredonia production of Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango.

High Plains Fandango takes place in a small, withered cattle town in western Nebraska.  The citizens face a Faustian bargain for survival.

Commissioned in 2010 by the Theatre Arts Department at The State University of New York at Fredonia, High Plains Fandango was developed (with a public reading) by the Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles under the direction of Ethan Phillips.   High Plains Fandango, directed by Tom Loughlin, premiered at SUNY-Fredonia on February 24, 2012.

 Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth, poet and playwright, named by True West magazine "Best Living Western Poet" in 2007, is a three-time winner of the Spur Award (from Western Writers of America) for Poetry.  His plays have been presented widely in both professional and academic venues, including at The Foothill Theatre (CA), Spirit of the Horse Theatre (MN), Sundance Playwrights Lab, The Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.

HIGH PLAINS FANDANGO: Paperback Edition of Red Shuttleworth's play

High Plains Fandango

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth's hoof-to-the-teeth High Plains Fandango, a play about the coming scarcity of water and the potential privatization of the Ogallala Aquifer below the High Plains, is now a paperback book, published by Humanitas Media Publishing, and is available from Amazon.

Clayton Howe (as O'Garr) and Tony Taylor (as Ken Adams)

in Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango

Described as a tragi-comedy by Dr. Jerry L. Crawford, Dean Emeritus of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre at The Kennedy Center, predicated by water scarcity being the world's must critical future security issue, High Plains Fandango depicts the inhabitants of one small western Nebraska town's Faustian bargain amidst the impending business interests of attempting water privatization of the Ogallala Aquifer.

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth, named by True West magazine "Best Living Western Poet" in 2007, is a three-time winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America.  His plays have been presented widely in both professional and academic venues, including at The Foothill Theatre (CA), Spirit of the Horse Theatre (MN), Sundance Playwright Lab, The Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.

Claire Elise Walton (as DQ) and Andrew Albigese (as Moss)

in the SUNY-Fredonia production of High Plains Fandango

The State University of New York at Fredonia presented the premiere production of High Plains Fandango on Friday, February 24, 2012.  It was directed by Tom Louglin.

Jessica Drew-Cates (as Aquinas)

in the SUNY-Fredonia production of High Plains Fandango

Prior to its premiere at SUNY-Fredonia, Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango received development and a reading from the Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles, directed by Ethan Phillips.

Ethan Phillips and Red Shuttleworth

during the development of High Plains Fandango

by the Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles

(Burbank, California, March 2011)