AML Awards
Encyclopedia
The AML Awards are given annually by the Association for Mormon Letters
Association for Mormon Letters
The Association for Mormon Letters is a nonprofit founded in 1976 to promote quality writing "by, for, and about Mormons." The broadness of this definition of Mormon literature has led the AML to focus on a wide variety of work that has sometimes been neglected in the Mormon community...
to the best work "by, for, and about Mormons."
The award categories vary from year to year depending on what the AML decides is worthy of honor.
1977
Criticism- Clifton Holt Jolley for "The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith: An Archetypal Study"
Poetry
- Linda SillitoeLinda SillitoeLinda Buhler Sillitoe was an American journalist, poet and historian. She is best known for her journalistic coverage about Mark Hofmann and the "Mormon forgery murders." Her subsequent book Salamander, coauthored with Allen Roberts, examined Hofmann's creation of an industry for forged...
for "The Old Philosopher, Letter to a Four-Year-Old Daughter" - Arthur Henry KingArthur Henry KingArthur Henry King , also found as Arthur H. King, was a British poet, writer and academic.King was educated at the University of Cambridge, England and Lund University, Sweden and held a Doctor of Literature in stylistics. He served as Assistant Director-General in charge of Education in England...
for "The Field Behind Holly House"
Short Fiction
- Douglas H. Thayer for "Under the Cottonwoods"
- Donald Marshall for "Frost in the Orchard"
1978
Criticism- Steven P. Sondrup for "Literary Dimensions of Mormon Autobiography"
Poetry Honorable Mention
- Clinton F. Larson for "The Western World "
- Marden J. Clark for "God's Plenty"
- Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown for "Grandmother"
Short Fiction
- Levi S. PetersonLevi S. PetersonLevi Savage Peterson is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel". He was born and reared in the Mormon community of...
for "The Confessions of Augustine"
Short Fiction Honorable Mention
- Karen Rosenbaum for "Hit the Frolicking, Rippling Brooks"
1979
Criticism- Cindy Lesser Larsen for "Whoever Heard of a Utah Poet?: An Overview of Poetry in the Early Church"
Poetry
- Marden J. Clark for "Moods: Of Late "
- Edward L. Hart for "To Utah"
Short Fiction
- Bela Petsco for Nothing Very Important and Other Stories
1980
Biography- Frank W. Fox for J. Reuben ClarkJ. Reuben ClarkJoshua Reuben Clark, Jr. was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Born in Grantsville, Utah Territory, Clark was a prominent attorney in the Department of State, and Under Secretary of State for US president Calvin Coolidge...
: The Public Years
Criticism
- Linda SillitoeLinda SillitoeLinda Buhler Sillitoe was an American journalist, poet and historian. She is best known for her journalistic coverage about Mark Hofmann and the "Mormon forgery murders." Her subsequent book Salamander, coauthored with Allen Roberts, examined Hofmann's creation of an industry for forged...
for "New Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women"
Novel
- Marilyn McMeen Miller BrownMarilyn McMeen Miller BrownMarilyn Brown is an American novelist best known for her work within her native Mormon culture.She is the creator and namesake of the Marilyn Brown Novel Award.Marilyn Brown is also a Latter-day Saint hymnwriter. She has written 14 novels...
for The Earthkeepers
Poetry
- Emma Lou ThayneEmma Lou ThayneEmma Lou Thayne is a Mormon poet, counted as one of the 75 most significant.She graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. She would later return there to coach tennis and teach English...
for "Once in Israel"
1981
Criticism- George S. Tate for "The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon"
Poetry
- Robert A. ReesRobert A. ReesRobert A. Rees is an educator, scholar and poet. Since 1998 he has been Director of Education and Humanities at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California. Rees conducts training and does workshops throughout the United States.- Current :Rees's social commentary on Glenn Beck.* “,” ...
for "Gilead"
Poetry and Short Fiction
- Linda SillitoeLinda SillitoeLinda Buhler Sillitoe was an American journalist, poet and historian. She is best known for her journalistic coverage about Mark Hofmann and the "Mormon forgery murders." Her subsequent book Salamander, coauthored with Allen Roberts, examined Hofmann's creation of an industry for forged...
for "Lullaby in the New Year";"Demons"
Short Fiction
- Robert A. Christmas for "Another Angel"
1983
Criticism Honorable Mention- Eugene EnglandEugene EnglandGeorge Eugene England, Jr. , usually credited as Eugene England, was a Mormon writer, teacher, and scholar. He founded Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the oldest independent journal in Mormon Studies, with G. Wesley Johnson in 1966 and cofounded the Association for Mormon Letters in 1976...
for "The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 Years"
Drama
- Thomas F. Rogers for God's Fools: Plays of the Mitigated Conscience
Editing & Publishing Honorable Mention
- Levi S. PetersonLevi S. PetersonLevi Savage Peterson is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel". He was born and reared in the Mormon community of...
for Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories - The Editors of Exponent II
Humor Honorable Mention
- Calvin Grondahl for Freeway to Perfection
- Clifton Holt Jolley for "Selling the Chevrolet: A Moral Exercise"
Novel
- Douglas H. Thayer for Summer Fire
Poetry
- Clinton F. LarsonClinton F. LarsonClinton Foster Larson was an American poet and playwright and the founding editor of BYU Studies.Larson was born in American Fork, Utah to Clinton Larson and his wife the former Lillian Forter. Larson started college at the University of Utah at age 16 with plans to study medicine...
for "A Romaunt of the Rose: A Tapestry of Poems"
Poetry Honorable Mention
- Holly Ann Welker for "Feet";"Patience";"On My Father's 50th Birthday";"The Birthday Present"
Sermon Honorable Mention
- Neal A. MaxwellNeal A. MaxwellNeal Ash Maxwell was an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1981 until his death.-Life:...
Short Fiction
- Levi S. PetersonLevi S. PetersonLevi Savage Peterson is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel". He was born and reared in the Mormon community of...
for The Canyons of Grace
Special Award Honorable Mention
- Jack WeylandJack WeylandJack Arnold Weyland is a professor of physics at Brigham Young University–Idaho and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He is a prolific and well known author of fiction for LDS audiences, including many novels and short stories, mostly placed in contemporary settings...
1984
Editing & Publishing- Scott Kenney
Novel
- Orson Scott CardOrson Scott CardOrson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
for Saints, A Woman of DestinySaints (novel)Saints is a historical fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. It tells the story of the fictional protagonist, Dinah Kirkham, a native of Manchester, England, who immigrates to the United States and becomes one of the plural wives of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.Saints was...
Personal Essay
- Eugene EnglandEugene EnglandGeorge Eugene England, Jr. , usually credited as Eugene England, was a Mormon writer, teacher, and scholar. He founded Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the oldest independent journal in Mormon Studies, with G. Wesley Johnson in 1966 and cofounded the Association for Mormon Letters in 1976...
for A Dialogue with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience
Special Award
- Carol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn Wright Pearson is an American poet, author, screenwriter, and playwright. Her parents were Lelland Rider Wright and Emeline Sirrine Wright. Her mother died of breast cancer when Carol Lynn was fifteen...
1985
Criticism- Steven Walker for "Seven Ways of Looking at Susanna"
Novel
- Herbert Harker for Circle of Fire
Personal Essay
- Edward Geary for "Goodbye to Poplarhaven"
Poetry
- Emma Lou ThayneEmma Lou ThayneEmma Lou Thayne is a Mormon poet, counted as one of the 75 most significant.She graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. She would later return there to coach tennis and teach English...
Short Fiction
- Neal C. Chandler for "Benediction"
1986
Children’s Literature- Steve Wunderlie (author) and Brent Watts (illustrator) for Marty’s World
Personal and Family-History Book
- Myrtle McDonald for No Regrets
Personal and Family-History Essay
- Paul M. Edwards for "When Will the Little Woman Come Out of the House?"
Short Story
- Michael Fillerup for "Hozohoogoo Nanina Doo"
Poetry
- Dennis Marden Clark for "Sunwatch"
Personal Essay
- Susan Taber for "In Jeopardy Every Hour"
Religious literature
- Dennis Rasmussen for The Lord’s Question
Novel
- Levi Peterson for The Backslider
1987
Criticism- Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Romantic Lyric Form and Western Mormon Experience in the Stories of Douglas ThayerDouglas ThayerDouglas H. Thayer is considered one of the foremost fiction writers exploring contemporary Mormon life. He has been called the “Mormon Hemingway” for his straightforward style and powerful prose. Growing up in Provo, Utah, Thayer spent his boyhood largely running free and hunting, fishing, and...
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Novel
- Linda SillitoeLinda SillitoeLinda Buhler Sillitoe was an American journalist, poet and historian. She is best known for her journalistic coverage about Mark Hofmann and the "Mormon forgery murders." Her subsequent book Salamander, coauthored with Allen Roberts, examined Hofmann's creation of an industry for forged...
for Sideways to the Sun
Personal Essay
- Mary Lythgoe Bradford for "Leaving Home"
Poetry
- Robert A. Christmas for "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young"
Short Fiction
- Darrell SpencerDarrell SpencerDarrell Spencer is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his short stories, which are widely published in literary journals and have been the recipients of several awards.-Life:...
for A Woman Packing a Pistol
1988
Novel- Ann Edwards Cannon for Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night
Short Story
- John Bennion "A Court of Love." Sunstone 12.2 (March 1988): 30-38.
"A House of Order." Dialogue 21.3 (Autumn 1988): 129-48.
"Dust." Ascent 14.1 (1988): 1-10.
Poetry
- Dennis Marden Clark for Tinder: answer might be. With an almost Augustinian Dry Poems (Orem, Utah: United Order Books, 1988)
Special Recognition in Poetry
- Clinton F. LarsonClinton F. LarsonClinton Foster Larson was an American poet and playwright and the founding editor of BYU Studies.Larson was born in American Fork, Utah to Clinton Larson and his wife the former Lillian Forter. Larson started college at the University of Utah at age 16 with plans to study medicine...
for Selected Poems of Clinton F. Larson (Provo: Brigham Young University, 1988)
Personal Essay
- Karin Anderson England "The Man at the Chapel" Dialogue 21.4 (Winter 1988): 133-41
Special Recognition in Biography
- Levi S. PetersonLevi S. PetersonLevi Savage Peterson is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel". He was born and reared in the Mormon community of...
Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988)
Special Recognition in Criticism
- Wayne C. BoothWayne C. BoothWayne Clayson Booth was an American literary critic. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and the College at the University of Chicago...
The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Elouise Bell
- Wayne Booth
- Mary L. Bradford
- John S. Harris
- Gerald N. Lund
- Hugh NibleyHugh NibleyHugh Winder Nibley was an American author, Mormon apologist, and professor at Brigham Young University...
- Levi S. PetersonLevi S. PetersonLevi Savage Peterson is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include the seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel". He was born and reared in the Mormon community of...
- Steven P. Sondrup
- Douglas ThayerDouglas ThayerDouglas H. Thayer is considered one of the foremost fiction writers exploring contemporary Mormon life. He has been called the “Mormon Hemingway” for his straightforward style and powerful prose. Growing up in Provo, Utah, Thayer spent his boyhood largely running free and hunting, fishing, and...
- Emma Lou ThayneEmma Lou ThayneEmma Lou Thayne is a Mormon poet, counted as one of the 75 most significant.She graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. She would later return there to coach tennis and teach English...
- Laurel T. Ulrich
- Terry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest Williams , is an American author, conservationist and activist.Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah in which she was raised...
- William A. Wilson
1989
Criticism- Michael Hicks for Mormonism and Music: A History
- Dennis Clark for "Mormon Poetry Now!: The State of the Art"
Editing & Publishing
- SunstoneSunstone MagazineSunstone is a magazine published by the Sunstone Education Foundation, Inc., a 501 nonprofit corporation, that discusses Mormonism through scholarship, art, short fiction, and poetry. The foundation began the publication in 1974 and considers it a vehicle for free and frank exchange in The Church...
- Signature BooksSignature BooksSignature Books is a press specializing in subjects related to Utah, Mormonism, and Western Americana. The company was founded in 1980 by George D...
Novel
- Judith Freeman for The Chinchilla Farm
Personal Essay
- Emma Lou ThayneEmma Lou ThayneEmma Lou Thayne is a Mormon poet, counted as one of the 75 most significant.She graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. She would later return there to coach tennis and teach English...
for "As for Me and My House"
Poetry
- Susan Elizabeth Howe for "Things in the Night Sky"
Short Fiction
- Pauline Mortensen for "Back Before the World Turned Nasty"
1990
Criticism- William A. Wilson for "In Praise of Ourselves: Stories to Tell"
Novel
- Franklin Fisher for Bones
Personal Essay
- Elouise Bell for "Only When I Laugh"
Poetry
- Loretta Randall Sharp for "Doing It"
Short Fiction
- Walter Kirn for "My Hard Bargain"
1991
Biography- Laurel Thatcher UlrichLaurel Thatcher UlrichLaurel Thatcher Ulrich , is a historian of early America and the history of women and a university professor at Harvard University...
for A Midwife's Tale
Editing & Publishing
- Signature BooksSignature BooksSignature Books is a press specializing in subjects related to Utah, Mormonism, and Western Americana. The company was founded in 1980 by George D...
for Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation
Novel
- Orson Scott CardOrson Scott CardOrson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
for XenocideXenocideXenocide is the third novel in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card. It was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novel in 1992... - Gerald N. Lund for Like a Fire is Burning
Personal Essay
- Terry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest Williams , is an American author, conservationist and activist.Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah in which she was raised...
for Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Poetry
- Philip White for "Island Spring"
Short Fiction
- Michael Fillerup for "Lost and Found"
Young Adult Literature
- Louise PlummerLouise PlummerLouise Plummer is a noted author young-adult fiction and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons....
for My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent
1992
Biography- Rudi Wobbe for Before the Blood Tribunal
Children's Literature
- Barbara J. Porter for All Kinds of Answers
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Marden J. Clark
- Edward L. Hart
- Clinton F. Larson
- William Mulder
- Helen Cardland Stark
- Virginia Eggertsen
- Sorensen Waugh
- Maurine Whipple
Novel
- Orson Scott CardOrson Scott CardOrson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
for Lost Boys
Personal Essay
- Marden J. Clark for Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature
Poetry
- Kathy Evans for "Wednesday Morning"; "Midweek"; "Eight Windows"; "Vows"; "Love to the Second Power"
Short Fiction
- Margaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair Young is an American author, filmmaker and writing instructor affiliated with Brigham Young University.- Biography :Young is married to English professor Bruce Young...
for "Elegies and Love Songs"
1993
Biography- Phyllis Barber for How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir
Children's Literature
- Michael O. Tunnell for Chinook!
Drama
- Neil LabuteNeil LaButeNeil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.-Early life:LaBute was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marian, a hospital receptionist, and Richard LaBute, a long-haul truck driver. LaBute is of French Canadian, English and Irish ancestry, and was raised in Spokane,...
for In the Company of MenIn the Company of MenIn the Company of Men is a 1997 Canadian/American black comedy written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, and Stacy Edwards...
Editing & Publishing
- M. Shayne BellM. Shayne BellM. Shayne Bell is an American science fiction writer.He debuted with the story "Jacob's Ladder" in 1986 in the Writers of the Future book and contest, in which it won first prize for the second quarter of 1986. He has written only one novel, Nicoji, in 1991, but has remained active at shorter...
for Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor
Novel
- Gerald N. Lund for Thy Gold to Refine
- Leslie Beaton Hedley for Twelve Sisters
Personal Essay
- Eugene EnglandEugene EnglandGeorge Eugene England, Jr. , usually credited as Eugene England, was a Mormon writer, teacher, and scholar. He founded Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the oldest independent journal in Mormon Studies, with G. Wesley Johnson in 1966 and cofounded the Association for Mormon Letters in 1976...
for "Monte Cristo"
Poetry
- Linda SillitoeLinda SillitoeLinda Buhler Sillitoe was an American journalist, poet and historian. She is best known for her journalistic coverage about Mark Hofmann and the "Mormon forgery murders." Her subsequent book Salamander, coauthored with Allen Roberts, examined Hofmann's creation of an industry for forged...
for "Crazy Living"
Sermon
- Chieko N. OkazakiChieko N. OkazakiChieko Nishimura Okazaki was the first counselor to Elaine L. Jack in the Relief Society general presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1990 to 1997...
for Lighten Up!
Service to Mormon Letters
- Neila Seshachari
Short Fiction
- Darrell Spencer for "Our Secret's Out"
Young Adult Literature
- Martine BatesMartine LeavittMartine Leavitt is an American-Canadian author of award-winning young adult novels and a writing teacher. She is one of the distinguished writers in the “beginnings of a Canadian tradition in high fantasy.”-Biography:...
for The Dragon's Tapestry
1994
Biography- William G. Hartley for My Best for the Kingdom: John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
Criticism
- Gideon O. Burton
Drama
- Eric SamuelsenEric SamuelsenEric R. Samuelsen is a Mormon playwright and professor of theatre at Brigham Young University. He won the Association for Mormon Letters drama award in 1994, 1997, and 1999, and was the president of the Association for Mormon Letters from 2007 to 2009.-Biography:Eric Samuelsen was born in Provo,...
for "Accommodations: a Play in Three Acts"
Novel
- Anne PerryAnne PerryAnne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
for The Sins of the Wolf
Personal Essay
- Richard D. PollRichard D. PollRichard Douglas Poll was an American historian, academic, author and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . His liberal religiosity influenced his notable metaphor about "Iron Rod" vs. "Liahona" LDS Church members. -Biography:Poll was born in Salt Lake City, where he lived...
for "A Liahona Latter-day Saint"
Poetry
- Pamela Porter Hamblin for "Magi"
Short Fiction
- Wayne Jorgensen for "Who Tarzan, Who Jane"
Young Adult Literature
- Dean HughesDean HughesDean Hughes is a prominent author of historical novels and children's books.-Biography:Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah on August 24, 1943. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high...
for The Trophy
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Samuel W. TaylorSamuel W. TaylorSamuel Woolley Taylor was an American novelist, scriptwriter and historian.- Biography :Taylor was born in Provo, Utah to Janet "Nettie" Maria Woolley and John W. Taylor, the son of John Taylor, the late president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
1995
Biography- Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMaureen Ursenbach BeecherMaureen Ursenbach Beecher was an English professor at Brigham Young University who has also been in the past associated with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History at that university. Although she has written at times broadly on the history of Latter-day Saint women her main focus...
for The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
Criticism
- Michael Austin for "How to Be a Mormo-American; Or, The Function of Mormon Criticism at the Present Time"
Drama
- Tim Slover for A March Tale
Novel
- Mack Hedges for Last Buckaroo
Personal Essay
- Terry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest WilliamsTerry Tempest Williams , is an American author, conservationist and activist.Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah in which she was raised...
for "Desert Quartet"
Poetry
- Marden J. Clark for "Snows"
Short Fiction
- Tory C. Anderson for "Epiphany"
Young Adult Literature
- Louise PlummerLouise PlummerLouise Plummer is a noted author young-adult fiction and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons....
for The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman
1996
Biography- Marian Robertson WilsonMarian Robertson WilsonMarian Robertson Wilson is an accomplished cellist, linguist and teacher. Probably her most notable role was serving as the music editor for the Coptic Encyclopedia. She is a daughter of Leroy Robertson and has written scholarly analyses of his works.- Biography :Robertson initially studied piano...
for Leroy RobertsonLeroy RobertsonLeroy Robertson was an American composer and music educator.Robertson was born in Fountain Green, Utah. One of his earliest instructors was Anthony C. Lund. He studied violin, composition, and public school music at the New England Conservatory and in Europe...
: Music Giant from the Rockies
Children's Literature
- Rick Walton for You Don't Always Get What You Hope For
Criticism
- Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Heritage of Hostility: The Mormon Attack on Fiction in the 19th Century";"Roughly One of the R's: Some Notes of a BYU Fiction Teacher (with a Pedantry of Endnotes)"
Drama
- Tim Slover for Joyful Noise
Novel
- Judith Freeman for A Desert of Pure Feeling
Personal Essay
- Kenneth O. Kemp for "3/4-inch Marine Ply"
Poetry
- Leslie NorrisLeslie NorrisGeorge Leslie Norris FRSL , was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. Up to 1974 he earned his living as a college lecturer, teacher and headmaster...
for Collected Poems
Short Fiction
- Paul Rawlins for No Lie Like Love: Stories
Young Adult Literature
- Pat Bezzant for Angie
1997
Criticism- Richard Dilworth Rust for Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon
Devotional Literature
- Chieko N. OkazakiChieko N. OkazakiChieko Nishimura Okazaki was the first counselor to Elaine L. Jack in the Relief Society general presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1990 to 1997...
for Sanctuary
Drama
- Eric SamuelsenEric SamuelsenEric R. Samuelsen is a Mormon playwright and professor of theatre at Brigham Young University. He won the Association for Mormon Letters drama award in 1994, 1997, and 1999, and was the president of the Association for Mormon Letters from 2007 to 2009.-Biography:Eric Samuelsen was born in Provo,...
for Gadianton
Personal Essay
- Holly Welker for "What You Walk Away From"
Poetry
- Susan Elizabeth Howe for Stone Spirits
Short Fiction
- Brady UdallBrady UdallBrady Udall is an American novelist. In 2010, he was appointed Writer-in-Residence of Idaho, a position he will hold until 2013.-Biography:Udall grew up in a large Mormon family in St. Johns, Arizona. He graduated from Brigham Young University and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the...
for "Beautiful Places"
1998
Devotional Literature- Clark L. Kidd for A Convert's Guide to Mormon Life
Marilyn Brown
Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown
Marilyn Brown is an American novelist best known for her work within her native Mormon culture.She is the creator and namesake of the Marilyn Brown Novel Award.Marilyn Brown is also a Latter-day Saint hymnwriter. She has written 14 novels...
Novel Award
- Jack Harrell for Vernal Promises
Novel
- Dean HughesDean HughesDean Hughes is a prominent author of historical novels and children's books.-Biography:Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah on August 24, 1943. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high...
for Far from Home
Personal Essay
- Tom Plummer for Eating Chocolates and Dancing in the Kitchen: Sketches of Marriage and Family
Poetry
- Alex Caldiero for Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings
Short Fiction
- Helen Walker Jones for "The Six-Buck Fortune"
Young Adult Literature
- Martine BatesMartine LeavittMartine Leavitt is an American-Canadian author of award-winning young adult novels and a writing teacher. She is one of the distinguished writers in the “beginnings of a Canadian tradition in high fantasy.”-Biography:...
for The Taker's Key
1999
Devotional Literature- Neal A. MaxwellNeal A. MaxwellNeal Ash Maxwell was an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1981 until his death.-Life:...
for One More Strain of Praise
Drama
- Eric SamuelsenEric SamuelsenEric R. Samuelsen is a Mormon playwright and professor of theatre at Brigham Young University. He won the Association for Mormon Letters drama award in 1994, 1997, and 1999, and was the president of the Association for Mormon Letters from 2007 to 2009.-Biography:Eric Samuelsen was born in Provo,...
for The Way We're Wired
Novel
- Anne PerryAnne PerryAnne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
for Tathea
Personal Essay
- Martha BeckMartha BeckMartha Nibley Beck is an American sociologist, therapist, life coach and best-selling author. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley...
for Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
Short Fiction
- Mary ClydeMary ClydeMary Clyde is an American short story writer, author of Survival Rates , which won the 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press...
for Survival Rates
2000
Criticism- Benson Parkinson
Devotional Literature
- Patricia Terry Holland for A Quiet Heart
Drama
- Margaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair Young is an American author, filmmaker and writing instructor affiliated with Brigham Young University.- Biography :Young is married to English professor Bruce Young...
for I Am Jane
Film
- Richard DutcherRichard DutcherRichard Alan Dutcher is an American independent filmmaker who produces, writes, directs, edits, and frequently stars in his films. Well known among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for his early Mormon-themed productions, Dutcher has been called “The Father of Mormon...
for God's ArmyGod's Army (film)God's Army is a 2000 film. It was written, directed by and features Richard Dutcher. It is an independent film and was financed by private investors.-Main cast:*Matthew A...
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Richard Cracroft
Marilyn Brown Novel Award
- Alan Mitchell for Angel of the Danube
Novel
- Margaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair Young is an American author, filmmaker and writing instructor affiliated with Brigham Young University.- Biography :Young is married to English professor Bruce Young...
for One More River to Cross
Personal Essay
- Gordon B. HinckleyGordon B. HinckleyGordon Bitner Hinckley was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from March 12, 1995 until his death...
for Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
Short Fiction
- Darrell Spencer for "Caution: Men in Trees"
2001
Children's Literature- Don H. StaheliDon H. StaheliDonald Hansen Staheli is an American author and prominent member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was the personal secretary to LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley...
for The Story of the Walnut Tree
Criticism
- Dian Saderup Monson for "Believing in the Word"
Drama
- J. Scott Bronson for Stones
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Thomas F. Rogers
Marilyn Brown Novel Award
- A. Jeff Call for Mormonville
Middle Grade Literature
- Carol Lynch Williams for My Angelica
Novel
- Brady UdallBrady UdallBrady Udall is an American novelist. In 2010, he was appointed Writer-in-Residence of Idaho, a position he will hold until 2013.-Biography:Udall grew up in a large Mormon family in St. Johns, Arizona. He graduated from Brigham Young University and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the...
for The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Review
- Jeffrey Needle
Young Adult Literature
- Louise PlummerLouise PlummerLouise Plummer is a noted author young-adult fiction and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University. She lives in New York, New York with her writer/professor husband Tom. Together they have four sons....
for A Dance for Three
2002
Drama- Reed McColm for Hole in the Sky
Drama Honorable Mention
- Melissa Leilani Larson for Wake Me When It's Over
- Tim Slover for Hancock County
Film
- Christian VuissaChristian VuissaChristian Vuissa is a Latter-day Saint filmmaker. He is also the founder and head of the LDS Film Festival.Vuissa is a native of Austria and served an LDS mission in Leipzig, Germany from 1994-96. He was involved in the making of Pirates of the Great Salt Lake...
for Roots and Wings
Film Honorable Mention
- Andrew Black for "The Snell ShowThe Snell ShowThe Snell Show is a short film by Scottish-born director, Andrew Black. The film is a black comedy featuring a nuclear explosion at a family get-together....
" - Ryan LittleRyan LittleRyan Little is a movie director, cinematographer and producer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Awards and nominations:*Won, 2006, Heartland Film Festival's Crystal Heart Award for independent filmmakers, for Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy*Won, 2003, Viewer's Choice...
for Out of StepOut of Step (film)Out of Step is a 2002 film about an LDS young woman from Utah who moves to New York, New York to pursue an education in dance at New York University. There, she receives the affections of two young men and must eventually chose between them.-Plot:...
Film Adaptation
- Janine Whetton Gilbert for Charly
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Lavina Fielding AndersonLavina Fielding AndersonLavina Fielding Anderson is a Latter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington...
- Bruce Wayne Jorgensen
In Memoriam
- Neila C. Seshachari
Novel
- Chris Crowe for Mississippi Trial 1955
Picture Book
- Rick Walton for Bertie Was a Watchdog
Poetry
- Kimberly Johnson for Leviathan with a Hook
Short Fiction
Susan Palmer for "Breakthrough"
Short Fiction Honorable Mention
- Karen Rosenbaum for "Out of the Woods"
- Linda Paulson Adams for "First"
Young Adult Literature
- Ann Edwards Cannon for Charlotte's Rose
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Martine LeavittMartine LeavittMartine Leavitt is an American-Canadian author of award-winning young adult novels and a writing teacher. She is one of the distinguished writers in the “beginnings of a Canadian tradition in high fantasy.”-Biography:...
for The Dollmage - Kimberley Heuston for The Shakeress
2003
Drama- LeeAnne Hill Adams for Archipelago
Editing
- Chris Bigelow for IrreantumAssociation for Mormon LettersThe Association for Mormon Letters is a nonprofit founded in 1976 to promote quality writing "by, for, and about Mormons." The broadness of this definition of Mormon literature has led the AML to focus on a wide variety of work that has sometimes been neglected in the Mormon community...
Film Adaptation
- Anne K. Black, Jason Faller, and Katherine Swigert for 'Pride and Prejudice
Historical Fiction
- Margaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair YoungMargaret Blair Young is an American author, filmmaker and writing instructor affiliated with Brigham Young University.- Biography :Young is married to English professor Bruce Young...
for
Marilyn Brown Novel Award
- Janean Justham for
Novel
- Douglas ThayerDouglas ThayerDouglas H. Thayer is considered one of the foremost fiction writers exploring contemporary Mormon life. He has been called the “Mormon Hemingway” for his straightforward style and powerful prose. Growing up in Provo, Utah, Thayer spent his boyhood largely running free and hunting, fishing, and...
for
Publishing
BYU Studies
BYU Studies is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing articles on a broad array of topics related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Short Fiction
- Coke NewellCoke NewellClayton Corey "Coke" Newell is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose professional career outside of freelance is often defined by his decade-plus stint in public relations for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
for "Toaster Road"
Short Fiction Honorable Mention
- William Shunn for "The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain"
- Robert Van Wagoner for "A Good Sign"
Young Adult Literature
- Kimberley Heuston for
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Shannon HaleShannon HaleShannon Hale is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction.-Biography:Shannon Hale is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the "Books of Bayern" series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she and her husband co-wrote...
for
The Goose Girl (novel)
The Goose Girl is a fantasy novel by Shannon Hale based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same title. The book won the 2003 Josette Frank Award for youth fiction.-Plot summary:...
2004
CriticismFilm
- Adam Abel for
Saints and Soldiers
Saints and Soldiers is a 2003 drama-war film featuring Corbin Allred, Alexander Niver, Kirby Heyborne, Lawrence Bagby and Peter Holden.It is based loosely around events taking place shortly after the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge where several US soldiers and a downed British...
Middle Grade Literature
- Patricia Wiles for
Middle Grade Literature Honorable Mention
- Randall Wright for
Novel
- P. G. Karamesines for
Novel Honorable Mention
- Amber Esplin for
Poetry
- John Talbot for
Special Award Honorable Mention
- The J. Willard Marriott LibraryJ. Willard Marriott LibraryJ. Willard Marriott Library is the library of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was named for J. Willard Marriott, the founder of Marriott International. The library building is over and houses over 3 million volumes. The University of Utah Press is a division of the Marriott...
of the University of UtahUniversity of UtahThe University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
Young Adult Literature
- Shannon HaleShannon HaleShannon Hale is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction.-Biography:Shannon Hale is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the "Books of Bayern" series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she and her husband co-wrote...
for
Enna Burning
Enna Burning is a fantasy novel by Shannon Hale. It is the second book in her Books of Bayern series, following the character Enna, who befriends the title character in The Goose Girl.-Plot summary:...
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Mette Ivie Harrison for
2005
Biography- Richard Lyman Bushman for
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder is a biography of Joseph Smith Jr., founder and prophet of the Latter Day Saint movement, by Richard Bushman...
Criticism
- William Morris, P. G. Karamesines, Kent Larsen, and Eric Russell for A Motley VisionA Motley VisionA Motley Vision is an online multi-author blog featuring criticism of the Mormon arts, LDS literature and film in particular. It was launched by William Morris on June 2, 2004...
Film
- Greg Whiteley for
New York Doll
New York Doll is a documentary film based on the life of former New York Dolls member Arthur Kane. The film was nominated for both a Satellite Award and a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered in 2005...
Marilyn Brown Novel Award
- Arianne B. CopeArianne CopeArianne Cope is a Latter-day Saint novelist.Cope has written many articles for such LDS Church publications as the New Era.Cope has been a recipient of the Marilyn Brown Novel Award from the Association for Mormon Letters for her novel The Coming of Elijah...
for
Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention
- Donald Marshall for
Novel
- Brandon SandersonBrandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
for
Elantris
Elantris is a stand-alone fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in April 2005 by Tor Books. Brandon is planning to write a sequel to Elantris, but its release has not yet been announced. It is significant as Sanderson's first widely released book. The book is named after the ruined city,...
Novel Honorable Mention
- Orson Scott CardOrson Scott CardOrson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
for
Magic Street
Magic Street is an urban fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. This book follows the magical events in the Baldwin Hills section of contemporary Los Angeles, including the life of protagonist Mack Street, his foster brother Cecil Tucker, a trickster identified variously as Bag Man, Puck, Mr...
Poetry
- Lance Larsen for
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
- Dean HughesDean HughesDean Hughes is a prominent author of historical novels and children's books.-Biography:Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah on August 24, 1943. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high...
for
Special Award
- Michael and Laura AllredLaura AllredLaura Allred is a comics artist who is best known for her work with her husband, Mike Allred, as a colorist.-Awards:* 1995: Won "Favorite Colorist" Wizard Fan Award* 1998: Nominated for "Best Colorist" Eisner Award, for Red Rocket 7...
for
Young Adult Literature
- Shannon HaleShannon HaleShannon Hale is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction.-Biography:Shannon Hale is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the "Books of Bayern" series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she and her husband co-wrote...
for
Princess Academy
Princess Academy is a fantasy novel exploring themes of families, relationships and education by Shannon Hale published on June 16, 2005 by Bloomsbury. It tells the story of fourteen-year-old Miri who attends a princess academy which will determine who wins the hand of the prince...
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Dean HughesDean HughesDean Hughes is a prominent author of historical novels and children's books.-Biography:Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah on August 24, 1943. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high...
for
2006
Criticism- Patricia Karamesines for "The Rhetoric of Stealing God"
Drama
- Tim Slover for
Film
- Annie PoonAnnie PoonAnnie Poon is an award-winning American animator based in New York City. She grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. Her short "Runaway Bathtub" is in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Her "The Book of Visions" was awarded best film of 2006 by the Association for Mormon...
for
Film Honorable Mention
- Melissa Puente for
Novel
- Toni Sorensen Brown for
Novel Honorable Mention
- Orson Scott CardOrson Scott CardOrson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
for
Empire (2006 novel)
Empire is a speculative fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. It tells the story of a possible second American Civil War, this time between the Right Wing and Left Wing in the near future. It is the first of the two books in The Empire duet, followed by Hidden Empire with the video game Shadow...
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
for
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Mistborn: The Final Empire is the first novel of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. It was followed by Mistborn: The Well of Ascension...
Personal Essay
- John Bennion for 'Like the Lilies of the Field'
Personal Essay Honorable Mention
- Wilfried Decoo for "The Unspeakable"
- Patricia Karamesines for "The Birds of Summer"
Service to AML
- Angela Hallstrom
Short Fiction
- Kristen Carson for
Short Fiction Honorable Mention
- Virginia Baker for "And Cry the Name of David"
- Heather Marx for "Brother Singh"
- Aaron Orullian for "Judgement Day"
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
- Rick Walton
Special Award
- James V. D'Arc, Blaine L. Gale, E. Hunter Hale, and Richard I. Hale for Trapped By the Mormons
Young Adult Literature
- Brandon MullBrandon MullBrandon Mull is an American writer who is best known as the author of the Fablehaven fantasy series, which is a New York Times' bestseller. Mull has also written The Candy Shop War...
for FablehavenFablehavenFablehaven is The New York Times best-selling children's literature fantasy series written by Brandon Mull. The book series, which includes Fablehaven, Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star, Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague, Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary, and Fablehaven: Keys to...
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Shannon HaleShannon HaleShannon Hale is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction.-Biography:Shannon Hale is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the "Books of Bayern" series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she and her husband co-wrote...
for River SecretsRiver SecretsRiver Secrets is a fantasy novel by Shannon Hale. It is the third book in the Books of Bayern series.-Plot:The story begins as the main character, Razo, is watching a meeting. The king and queen of Bayern speak with a Tiran ambassador and agree that they should exchange ambassadors to promote peace... - Janette Rallison for It's a Mall World After All
2007
Biography- Carol Cornwall MadsenCarol Cornwall MadsenCarol Cornwall Madsen is an emeritus professor of history at Brigham Young University where she was a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. She also served as associate director of BYU's Women's Research Institute...
for An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. WellsEmmeline B. WellsEmmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate and diarist...
, 1870-1920
Criticism
- Terryl L. GivensTerryl GivensTerryl Lynn Givens is professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond where he holds the James A. Bostwick Chair in English...
for People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
Drama
- Carol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn Wright Pearson is an American poet, author, screenwriter, and playwright. Her parents were Lelland Rider Wright and Emeline Sirrine Wright. Her mother died of breast cancer when Carol Lynn was fifteen...
for Facing East
Film
- Helen WhitneyHelen WhitneyHelen Whitney is an award-winning producer for the American Broadcasting Company.She produced a documentary called American Inquisition, which became the subject of a very famous case about First Amendment rights...
for The Mormons
Marilyn Brown Novel Award
- Todd PetersenTodd Robert PetersenTodd Robert Petersen was born in Moses Lake, Washington on August 17, 1969. He is a fiction writer and an academic currently based at Southern Utah University. He and his wife Alisa have two children....
for Rift
Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention
- Helynne Hollstein Hansen for Voices at the Crossroads
- Janet Kay JensenJanet Kay Jensen-External links:*...
for Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys
Novel
- Coke NewellCoke NewellClayton Corey "Coke" Newell is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose professional career outside of freelance is often defined by his decade-plus stint in public relations for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
for On the Road to Heaven
Novel Honorable Mention
- Dean HughesDean HughesDean Hughes is a prominent author of historical novels and children's books.-Biography:Dean Hughes was born in Ogden, Utah on August 24, 1943. He started telling people in junior high that he was going to be a writer, but he did not become serious until he took a creative writing class in high...
for Before the Dawn - Brandon SandersonBrandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
for The Well of AscensionMistborn: The Well of AscensionMistborn: The Well of Ascension is the second novel in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy.-Plot summary:The book begins with two armies laying siege to Luthadel - the army of Elend's father, Straff Venture and another one headed by Cett. Elend is now the King of Luthadel, with Vin as his...
Short Fiction
- Lisa Torcasso Downing for "Clothing Esther”
Short Fiction Honorable Mention
- Darin Cozzens for "Light of the New Day”
- Sigrid Olsen for "The Nature of Comets”
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
- Anne PerryAnne PerryAnne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
Special Award
- Segullah
Special Award Honorable Mention
- Gideon Burton for "Mormons and Film"
Young Adult Literature
- Ann Dee Ellis for This Is What I Did:
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Mette Ivie Harrison for The Princess and the Hound
- Brandon SandersonBrandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
for Alcatraz Vs. the Evil LibrariansAlcatraz Versus the Evil LibrariansAlcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is a juvenile fiction novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in October 2007 by Scholastic Press. The book is named after its main character, Alcatraz Smedry.-Plot summary:...
2008
Poetry- Neil Aitken for The Lost Country of Sight
- Warren Hatch for Mapping the Bones of the World
Short Fiction
- Stephen Tuttle for "Amanuensis"
Novel
- Angela Hallstrom for Bound on Earth
Youth Fiction
- Brandon MullBrandon MullBrandon Mull is an American writer who is best known as the author of the Fablehaven fantasy series, which is a New York Times' bestseller. Mull has also written The Candy Shop War...
for Fablehaven: The Grip of the Shadow Plague
Drama
- James Goldberg for Prodigal Son
Personal Essay
- Patrick Madden for "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart"
- Stephen Carter for "Calling"
Film
- Christian VuissaChristian VuissaChristian Vuissa is a Latter-day Saint filmmaker. He is also the founder and head of the LDS Film Festival.Vuissa is a native of Austria and served an LDS mission in Leipzig, Germany from 1994-96. He was involved in the making of Pirates of the Great Salt Lake...
for Errand of Angels - Ron Williams for Happy Valley
Special Award in Criticism
- Alan F. Keele
Special Award in Textual Criticism and Bibliography
- Dean C. JesseeDean C. JesseeDean Cornell Jessee is a historian of the early Latter Day Saint movement and leading expert on the writings of Joseph Smith, Jr.-Biography:...
, Mark Ashurst-McGeeMark Ashurst-McGeeMark Roscoe Ashurst-McGee is an American historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and editor for the Joseph Smith Papers project.-Biographical background:...
and Richard L. JensenRichard L. JensenRichard Louis Jensen is an American historian who specializes in the study of 19th-century Latter Day Saint history in Europe and of 19th-century European Latter Day Saint immigrants in the United States....
for The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals Series, vol. 1, Journals 1832-1839The Joseph Smith PapersThe Joseph Smith Papers is a project researching, collecting, and publishing all manuscripts and documents created by, or under the direction of, Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. The documents will be published with transcriptions and annotations online and in...
Special Award in History
- Richard E. Turley, Jr.Richard E. Turley, Jr.Richard Eyring "Rick" Turley, Jr. is an American historian and genealogist, and the Assistant Church Historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .-Biography:...
, Glen M. LeonardGlen M. LeonardGlen Milton Leonard is an American historian specializing in Mormon history.- Background :Leonard is a native of Farmington, Utah. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah. For a time he was managing editor of Utah Historical Quarterly. He has taught at both Brigham Young...
, and Ronald W. WalkerRonald W. WalkerRonald Warren Walker is a historian of the Latter Day Saint movement who was formerly a professor at Brigham Young University and president of the Mormon History Association.-Biography:...
for Massacre at Mountain MeadowsMassacre at Mountain MeadowsMassacre at Mountain Meadows is a book by Latter-day Saint historian Richard E. Turley, Jr. and two Brigham Young University professors of history, Ronald W. Walker and Glen M. Leonard. Leonard was also the director of the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City, Utah...
Smith-Petit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
- Douglas H. Thayer
Lifetime AML Membership
- Terryl L. Givens
2009
Drama- Melissa Leilani Larson for Little Happy Secrets
Film
- Jed Wells for Fire Creek
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- James D'Arc
Humor
- Elna BakerElna BakerElna Baker is a writer and performer of humorous stories. Her stories have been featured on radio programs such as This American Life, The Moth, BBC Radio 4 and Studio 360...
for The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
Memoir
- Kathryn Lynard Soper for The Year My Son and I Were Born
Novel
- Todd Robert PetersenTodd Robert PetersenTodd Robert Petersen was born in Moses Lake, Washington on August 17, 1969. He is a fiction writer and an academic currently based at Southern Utah University. He and his wife Alisa have two children....
for Rift
Novel Honorable Mention
- Jamie Ford for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Online Writing
- Sandra Tayler for One Cobble at a Time
Poetry
- Lance Larsen for Backyard Alchemy
Publishing
- Christopher Bigelow for Zarahemla Books
Service to AML
- Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury
Short Fiction
- Larry Menlove for "Path of Antelope, Pelican, and Moon"
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
- Levi Peterson
Young Adult Literature
- Carol Lynch Williams for The Chosen One
2010
Biography- Marilyn Arnold for Bittersweet: A Daughter's Memoir
Criticism
- Grant Hardy for Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide
Drama / WebFilm
- Jeffrey Parkin & Jared Cardon for The Book of Jer3miahThe Book of Jer3miahThe Book of Jer3miah is an American live-action web series created by a group of Brigham Young University students and faculty members. It follows the experience of college freshman, Jeremiah Whitney, who accepts the charge to protect a mysterious Mesoamerican box...
Editing
- Eric W. Jepson for "Comics!" SunstoneSunstoneSunstone is a plagioclase feldspar, which when viewed from certain directions exhibits a brilliant spangled appearance; this has led to its use as a gemstone. It has been found in Southern Norway, and in some United States localities...
#160 - Angela Hallstrom for Dispensation: Latter-day Fiction
Memoir
- George Handley for Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
Novel
- Brady UdallBrady UdallBrady Udall is an American novelist. In 2010, he was appointed Writer-in-Residence of Idaho, a position he will hold until 2013.-Biography:Udall grew up in a large Mormon family in St. Johns, Arizona. He graduated from Brigham Young University and later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the...
for The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel
Online Writing
- Ardis Parshall for "Beards" on Keepapitchinin
Personal Essay
- Patrick Madden for Quotidiana
Poetry
- Marilyn Bushman-Carlton for Her Side of It: Poems
Service to AML
- Darlene Young
Short Fiction
- Jack Harrell for A Sense of Order and Other Stories
Short Fiction Honorable Mention
- Darin Cozzens for Light of the New Day
Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
- Richard Cracroft
Young Adult Literature
- Ally CondieAlly CondieAlly Condie is a female American novelist. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Matched which was published by Dutton in November 2010. It is planned to be the first of a series.-Matched:...
for Matched