Best Living Western Poet
-- True West, 2007.1st Spur Award for Poetry
-- Western Writers of America, 2001."Like Cormac McCarthy..."
-- Kirk Robertson, 2000."Shuttleworth emerges as the true Western hero."
--Las Vegas City Life, 2000."Red Shuttleworth is a phenomenon among literary figures of the American West."
-- J.V. Brummels, 1997.Red Shuttleworth is the author of the Spur Award-winning Western Settings and numerous poetry chapbooks, including Backtrack, Brief Lives, and Doc Holliday's Skeleton Takes a St. Patrick's Day Walk, Leadville, Colorado, 1887.Red's plays have been presented at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Sundance Playwrights Lab, the Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, the Churchill Arts Council (Nevada), and at many other professional and academic theatres.Red's poems have appeared in over 200 journals, including South Dakota Review, New Letters, Ontario Review, Blue Mesa Review, True West, Concho River Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Flyway, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Aethlon, Hubbub, and Suisun Valley Review.
