AML Awards

The AML Awards are given annually by the Association for Mormon Letters to the best work "by, for, and about Mormons." They are juried awards, chosen by a small panel of judges.

The award categories vary from year to year depending on what the AML decides is worthy of honor. Beginning in 2013, the AML began creating a shortlist in certain categories. Beginning in 2015, all wins were preceded by announced shortlists.

1977

Criticism

Poetry

Short Fiction

1978

Criticism

Poetry Honorable Mention

Short Fiction

Short Fiction Honorable Mention

1979

Criticism

Poetry

Short Fiction

1980

Biography

Criticism

Novel

Poetry

1981

Criticism

Poetry

Poetry and Short Fiction

Short Fiction

1982

(lost)

1983

Criticism

Drama

Editorial Award: Special Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence The Editors of Exponent II.

Mormon Humor, First Prize

Mormon Humor, Second Prize

Novel

Poetry

Poetry, Young Poet's Prize

Sermon Special Commendation for Sustained Excellence in the Mormon Sermon

Short Fiction

Special Award for Popular Mormon Fiction

Special Award for Short Story Anthology

1984

Editing & Publishing

Novel

Personal Essay

Special Award

1985

Criticism

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

1986

Children's literature

Poetry

Religious Literature

Novel

Short Fiction

Personal and family history book

Personal and family history essay

Personal Essay

1987

Criticism

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

1988

Presented January 28, 1989, at the Weber State College Library.

Novel

Short Story

"A House of Order." Dialogue 21.3 (Autumn 1988): 129-48. "Dust." Ascent 14.1 (1988): 1-10.

Poetry

Special Recognition in Poetry

Personal Essay

Special Recognition in Biography

Special Recognition in Criticism

Honorary Lifetime Membership

1989

Criticism

Editing & Publishing

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

1990

Criticism

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

1991

Biography

Editing & Publishing

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

Young Adult Literature

Honorary Lifetime Memberships

1992

Biography

Children's Literature

Honorary Lifetime Membership

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

1993

Biography

Children's Literature

Drama

Editing & Publishing

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Sermon

Service to Mormon Letters

Short Fiction

Young Adult Literature

1994

Biography

Criticism

Drama

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

Young Adult Literature

Honorary Lifetime Membership

1995

Biography

Criticism

Drama

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

Young Adult Literature

1996

Biography

Children's Literature

Criticism

Drama

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

Young Adult Literature

1997

Criticism

Devotional Literature

Drama

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

1998

Devotional Literature

Marilyn Brown Novel Award

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Fiction

Young Adult Literature

1999

Devotional Literature

Drama

Novel

Personal Essay

Short Fiction

2000

Criticism

Devotional Literature

Drama

Film

Honorary Lifetime Membership

Marilyn Brown Novel Award

Novel

Personal Essay

Short Fiction

2001

Children's Literature

Criticism

Drama

Honorary Lifetime Membership

Marilyn Brown Novel Award

Middle Grade Literature

Novel

Review

Young Adult Literature

2002

Drama

Drama Honorable Mention

Film

Film Honorable Mention

Film Adaptation

Honorary Lifetime Membership

In Memoriam

Novel

Picture Book

Poetry

Short Fiction

Short Fiction Honorable Mention

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

2003

Drama

Editing

Film Adaptation

Historical Fiction

Marilyn Brown Novel Award

Novel

Publishing

Short Fiction

Short Fiction Honorable Mention

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

2004

Criticism

Film

Middle Grade Literature

Middle Grade Literature Honorable Mention

Novel

Novel Honorable Mention

Poetry

Special Award Honorable Mention

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

2005

Biography

Criticism

Film

Marilyn Brown Novel Award

Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention

Novel

Novel Honorable Mention

Poetry

Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Special Award

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

2006

Criticism

Drama

Film

Film Honorable Mention

Novel

Novel Honorable Mention

Personal Essay

Personal Essay Honorable Mention

Service to AML

Short Fiction

Short Fiction Honorable Mention

Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Special Award

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

2007

Biography

Criticism

Drama

Film

Marilyn Brown Novel Award

Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention

Novel

Novel Honorable Mention

Short Fiction

Short Fiction Honorable Mention

Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Special Award

Special Award Honorable Mention

Young Adult Literature

Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

2008

Poetry

Short Fiction

Novel

Youth Fiction

Drama

Personal Essay

Film

Special Award in Criticism

Special Award in Textual Criticism and Bibliography

Special Award in History

Smith-Petit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Lifetime AML Membership

2009

Drama

Film

Honorary Lifetime Membership

Humor

Memoir

Novel

Novel Honorable Mention

Online Writing

Poetry

Publishing

Service to AML

Short Fiction

Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Young Adult Literature

2010

Biography

Criticism

Drama / WebFilm

Editing

Memoir

Novel

Online Writing

Personal Essay

Poetry

Service to AML

Short Fiction

Short Fiction Honorable Mention

Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Young Adult Literature

2011

Biography

Autobiography

Criticism

Film

Special Award in Graphical Narrative

Novel

Personal Essay

Poetry

Short Story

Short Fiction

Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Special Award in Literary Journalism

Young Adult Novel

Marilyn Brown Novel Award

Honorary Lifetime Membership

2012

Smith Pettit Award

Novel

Devotional

Poetry

Award in Adaptation

Film

Drama

Short Fiction

Young Adult Novel

Memoir/Creative Non Fiction

Middle Grade Fiction Award

Humor

Lifetime AML membership

2013

Given out April 12, 2014.

Creative non-fiction

Drama

Film

Special Award

Novel

Poetry

Other finalists
  • Susan Elizabeth Howe Salt
  • Lance Larsen Genius Loci

Short Fiction

Other finalists
  • “The Righteous Road” by Ryan Shoemaker, Silk Road Review, Summer/Fall 2013
  • “Expiation” by Richard Dutcher, Sunstone 171, July 2013
  • “Duplex” by Eric Freeze, Prairie Fire 34.1, Spring 2013
  • “The Gift of Tongues” by Annette Haws, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Winter 2013

Smith-Petit Award for service to Mormon Letters

Outstanding Achievement Award

Young Adult Fiction

Young Adult Speculative Fiction

2014

Given out March 28, 2015, at the Utah Valley University Library.[21]

Comics

Creative non-fiction

Other finalists
  • To the Mountain: One Mormon Woman’s Search for Spirit by Phyllis Barber
  • Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary by Craig Harline
  • Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story by Ingrid Ricks

Criticism

Other finalists
  • “Of Many Hearts and Many Minds: The Mormon Novel and the Post-Utopian Challenge of Assimilation” by Scott Hales. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati
  • “Toward a Mormon Literary Theory” by Jack Harrell. BYU Studies Quarterly 53.3, 2014

Drama

Other finalists
  • The Weaver of Raveloe by Erika Glenn and Melissa Leilani Larsen
  • Single Wide by George Nelson and Jordan Kamalu
  • Evening Eucalyptus by Mahonri Stewart

Film

Other finalists

Honorary Lifetime Membership

Middle Grade Novel

  • Honorable Mention: The End or Something Like That by Ann Dee Ellis
Other finalists
  • Almost Super by Marion Jensen
  • Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little
  • Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull

Novel

Other finalists
  • A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
  • The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison
  • The Thieves of Summer by Linda Sillitoe

Picture Book

  • Honorable Mention: The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Other finalists
  • Fetch by Adam Glendon Sidwell, illustrated by Edwin Rhemrev
  • The World According to Musk Ox by Erin Cabatingan, illustrated by Matthew Myers
  • The Tooth Fairy Wars by Kate Coombs, illustrated by Jake Parker

Poetry

Other finalists
  • Uncommon Prayer and Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England by Kimberly Johnson
  • In the Museum of Coming and Going by Laura Stott

Religious Non-Fiction

Other finalists
  • Seeking the Promised Land by David E. Campbell, John C. Green, and J. Quin Monson. Cambridge University Press
  • Wresting the Angel by Terryl Givens

Short Fiction

Other finalists
  • “Recollection” by Nancy Fulda, Carbide Tipped Pens
  • “Anatomy” by Tim Wirkus, Weird Fiction Review, June 2014
  • “Jesus Enough” by Levi S. Peterson, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Winter 2014

Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

Young Adult General Novel

Other finalists
  • Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little
  • On the Fence by Kasie West
  • Signed, Skye Harper by Carol Lynch Williams
  • Stronger than You Know by Jolene Perry

Young Adult Speculative Novel

Other finalists
  • The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg
  • The Unhappening of Genesis Lee by Shallee McArthur
  • Son of War, Daughter of Chaos by Janette Rallison
  • Ruins by Dan Wells
  • Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White

2015

Presented March 5, 2016, at the Heber J. Grant building on Brigham Young University-Hawaii campus.[22]

The Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

The Association for Mormon Letters Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Donald R. Marshall[23]

Special Awards for Scholarly Publishing

Creative Non-Fiction[24]

  • My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married by Joey Franklin
  • The Accidental Terrorist by William Shunn
  • Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women edited by Jamie Zvirzdin

Religious Non-Fiction[24]

  • Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History by Brant A. Gardner
  • The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism edited by Terryl L. Givens and Philip L. Barlow
  • Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi by Jad Hatem, translated by Jonathon Penny
  • Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt by Patrick Q. Mason
  • Relational Grace: The Reciprocal and Binding Covenant of Charis by Brent J. Schmidt

Comics[25]

  • Dendo: One Year and One Half in Japan by Brittany Long Olsen
  • Stripling Warrior by Brian Andersen and James Neish
  • My Hot Date by Noah van Sciver

Criticism[25]

  • Jana Riess "Mormon Popular Culture" from the first of the two nominated collections below

Drama[25]

  • Pilot Program by Melissa Leilani Larson

Film[26]

Lyrics[27]

Middle-Grade Novel[28]

  • Mothman’s Curse by Christine Hayes
  • A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
  • Mysteries of Cove: Fires of Invention by J. Scott Savage
  • The Sound of Life and Everything by Krista Van Dolzer
  • Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave by Jen White

Novel[29]

  • Sistering by Jennifer Quist

Picture Book[27]

  • Zombelina Dances the Nutcracker by Kristyn Crow
  • Talon Wrestles an Anaconda by Auntie M (McArthur Krishna)
  • Girls Who Choose God: Stories of strong women from the Book of Mormon by McArthur Krishna, Bethany Brady Spalding, and Kathleen Peterson
  • Job Wanted by Teresa Bateman

Poetry[27]

  • Hive by Christina Stoddard
  • Glyphs by Colin Douglas
  • Lake of Fire: Landscape Meditations from the Great Basin Deserts of Nevada by Justin Evans
  • Let Me Drown With Moses by James Goldberg

Short Story[29]

  • “Remainder” by Spencer Hyde
  • “The Naked Woman” by Theric Jepson
  • “Absolute Zero” by Scott Parkin
  • “An Immense Darkness” by Eric James Stone

Short-Story Collection[29]

  • Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives by Karen Rosenbaum
  • Dark Watch and Other Mormon-American Stories by William Morris
  • Wandering Realities: Mormonish Short Fiction by Steve L. Peck

Young Adult Novel[28]

  • The Storyspinner by Becky Wallace
  • Shutter by Courtney Alameda
  • Ink and Ashes by Valynne Maetani
  • Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
  • Fish Out of Water by Natalie Whipple

See also

Citation notes

    References

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    3. http://mldb.byu.edu/AML%20Awards/Awards1983.htm
    4. "[Personal Essay Explored at AML Conference https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/058-41-45.pdf]." [Sunstone Magazine]]. Accessed 6 Feb 2016. Note that a typo in the article calls these the 1980 award winners.
    5. https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/064.pdf
    6. Sunstone Feb. 1989, p.51
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    8. https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/086-62-69.pdf
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    23. 1 2 Hall, Andrew (21 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Lifetime Awards". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 22 Feb 2016.
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    25. 1 2 3 Hall, Andrew (5 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Awards Finalists #5: Drama, Comics, and Criticism". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 5 Feb 2016.
    26. Hall, Andrew (11 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Awards Finalists #6: Film". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 11 Feb 2016.
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