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Click here to view the 2026 WRMA Winners.
Looking Forward to the 2026 WRMA Weekend
Plans are underway for WRMA's most exciting award weekend celebration yet! We'll start the celebration Thursday, October 29th, 2026, at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore with our annual Meet & Greet. While 2026 award winners, their guests, and our sponsors can attend the event for free, unprecedented interest (and limited space!) means any additional guests will need to purchase tickets. Celebrities in attendance will include Bruce Boxleitner, Barry Corbin, and Dean Butler. If you are in town Wednesday evening, October 28, we will also enjoy a lovely evening at the Claremore Museum of History for the Will Rogers Author Posse, where selected authors will be available to meet the community and other guests.
We are thrilled to hold WRMA's first Craft of Writing the West Conference all day Friday, October 30, at the River Spirit Casino Resort, where you'll enjoy a variety of sessions led by award-winning authors, scholars, and even actors! Later that night Barry Corbin, Bruce Boxleitner, Dean Butler, Rob Word, and Mason Beals will present An Evening with Will, where these talented gentlemen will read Will Rogers' most popular radio commentaries before a live studio audience. Both the conference and the radio commentary program are free and open to the public.
Finally, we will wrap up this wonderful weekend Saturday, October 31, with our annual 2026 Will Rogers Medallion Award Banquet and Ceremony at River Spirit Casino Resort. A delicious dinner will be followed by the reveal of award rankings, the presentation of medallions to our winners, and plenty of exceptional entertainment, including Grammy Award-winning singer, Clint Black. Winners will be announced in early June so that they can begin making travel plans. Please see our Award Ceremony tab for more information on the weekend programs.
I M P O R T A N T D A T E S
Nov 1,
2025 - March 15, 2026
Oct. 28-31,
2026
Submissions for the 2026 contest are now closed. We will be open for submissions to our 2027 WRMA contest November 1, 2026.
The 2026 WRMA Ceremony Weekend will be held Oct. 28-31, 2026, in Claremore and Tulsa, Oklahoma. We are excited to host the inaugural "Craft of Writing the West" Conference and "An Evening with Will," with celebrities reading Will's most popular radio commentaries. We'll also enjoy our traditional Meet & Greet at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum and the Award Dinner & Ceremony at River Spirit Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Click here for more details.
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How do I order medallion stickers for my book covers? Click here.
How do I enter a book in the award contest? Click here.
How do I order tickets for the award ceremony? Click here.
Want to learn more about Will Rogers?
Visit the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma,
and their website here.
Many thanks to our 2026 WRMA Program Sponsors:
Lone Star Literary Life * RCB Bank * Visit Claremore * Wolfpack Publishing
Claremore Museum of History * INSP Network * Frontier Justice * Bariso Press
Muscogee Nation * Deadwood History, Inc. * Chevron * Arcadia Press
Roan & Weatherford * Wild West Film Productions * River Spirit Casino Resort
Edward R. Jones * Quill Hawk Publishing * Oklahoma Arts Council
* JM Davis Arms & Historical Museum * Rodeo Life Magazine
* Cherokee Nation Businesses * Distinctly Montana Magazine * University of Tulsa
* Oklahoma Military Academy Museum * Gangster Museum of America
WRMA Executive Director: Chris Enss
O F F I C I A L H O M E P A G E
"A man only learns by two things: one is reading, and the other is association with smarter people."—Will Rogers
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