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
- Clifton Holt Jolley for "The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith: An Archetypal Study"
Poetry
- Linda Sillitoe for "The Old Philosopher, Letter to a Four-Year-Old Daughter"
- Arthur Henry King for "The Field Behind Holly House"
Short Fiction
- Douglas H. Thayer for "Under the Cottonwoods"
- Donald Marshall for "Frost in the Orchard"[1]
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. Peterson for "The Confessions of Augustine"
Short Fiction Honorable Mention
- Karen Rosenbaum for "Hit the Frolicking, Rippling Brooks"[1]
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[1]
1980
Biography
- Frank W. Fox for J. Reuben Clark: The Public Years
Criticism
- Linda Sillitoe for "New Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women"
Novel
- Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown for The Earthkeepers
Poetry
- Emma Lou Thayne for "Once in Israel"[2]
1981
Criticism
- George S. Tate for "The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon"
Poetry
- Robert A. Rees for "Gilead"
Poetry and Short Fiction
- Linda Sillitoe for "Lullaby in the New Year";"Demons"
Short Fiction
- Robert A. Christmas for "Another Angel"[2]
1982
(lost)
1983
Criticism
- Eugene England for "The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 Years" [3]
Drama
- Thomas F. Rogers for God's Fools: Plays of the Mitigated Conscience
Editorial Award: Special Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence The Editors of Exponent II.
Mormon Humor, First Prize
- Calvin Grondahl for Freeway to Perfection, Faith Promoting Rumors, and Sunday's Foyer
Mormon Humor, Second Prize
- Clifton Holt Jolley for "Selling the Chevrolet: A Moral Exercise"
Novel
- Douglas H. Thayer for Summer Fire
Poetry
- Clinton F. Larson for "A Romaunt of the Rose: A Tapestry of Poems"
Poetry, Young Poet's Prize
- Holly Ann Welker for "Feet";"Patience";"On My Father's 50th Birthday";"The Birthday Present".
Sermon Special Commendation for Sustained Excellence in the Mormon Sermon
Short Fiction
- Levi S. Peterson for The Canyons of Grace
Special Award for Popular Mormon Fiction
Special Award for Short Story Anthology
- Levi S. Peterson for Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories[2]
1984
Editing & Publishing
- Scott Kenney
Novel
Personal Essay
- Eugene England for A Dialogue with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience
Special Award
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
Short Fiction
- Neal C. Chandler for "Benediction"[2]
1986
Children's literature
- Steve Wunderlie (author) and Brent Watts (illustrator), Marty's World
Poetry
- Dennis Marden Clark for "Sunwatch"
Religious Literature
- Dennis Rasmussen for The Lord’s Question
Novel
- Levi Peterson for "The Backslider
Short Fiction
- Michael Fillerup for "Hozohoogoo Nanina Doo"
Personal and family history book
- Myrtle McDonald for No Regrets: The Life of Carl A. Carlquist
Personal and family history essay
- Paul M. Edwards for "When Will the Little Woman Come Out of the House?"
Personal Essay
1987
Criticism
- Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Romantic Lyric Form and Western Mormon Experience in the Stories of Douglas Thayer"
Novel
- Linda Sillitoe 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 Spencer for A Woman Packing a Pistol[2][5]
1988
Presented January 28, 1989, at the Weber State College Library.
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. Larson 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. Peterson Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988)
Special Recognition in Criticism
- Wayne C. Booth The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)[6]
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Elouise Bell
- Wayne Booth
- Mary L. Bradford
- John S. Harris
- Gerald N. Lund
- Hugh Nibley
- Levi S. Peterson
- Steven P. Sondrup
- Douglas Thayer
- Emma Lou Thayne
- Laurel T. Ulrich
- Terry Tempest Williams
- William A. Wilson[2]
1989
Criticism
- Michael Hicks for Mormonism and Music: A History
- Dennis Clark for "Mormon Poetry Now!: The State of the Art"
Editing & Publishing
Novel
- Judith Freeman for The Chinchilla Farm
Personal Essay
- Emma Lou Thayne 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"[2]
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"[7]
1991
Biography
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for A Midwife's Tale
Editing & Publishing
- Signature Books and Ron Schow, Wayne Schow, Marybeth Raynes, editor, for Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation
Novel
- Orson Scott Card for Xenocide
- Gerald N. Lund for Like a Fire is Burning
Personal Essay
- Terry Tempest Williams 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 Plummer for My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent
Honorary Lifetime Memberships
- Marden J. Clark
- Edward L. Hart
- Clinton F. Larson
- William Mulder
- Helen Candland Stark
- Virginia Eggersen Sorensen Waugh
- Maurine Whipple[7][8]
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
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 Young for "Elegies and Love Songs"[7]
1993
Biography
- Phyllis Barber for How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir
Children's Literature
- Michael O. Tunnell for Chinook!
Drama
Editing & Publishing
- M. Shayne Bell 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 England for "Monte Cristo"
Poetry
- Linda Sillitoe for "Crazy Living"
Sermon
- Chieko N. Okazaki for Lighten Up!
Service to Mormon Letters
- Neila Seshachari
Short Fiction
- Darrell Spencer for "Our Secret's Out"
Young Adult Literature
- Martine Bates for The Dragon's Tapestry[7]
1994
Biography
- William G. Hartley for My Best for the Kingdom: John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
Criticism
- Gideon O. Burton
Drama
- Eric Samuelsen for "Accommodations: a Play in Three Acts"
Novel
- Anne Perry for The Sins of the Wolf
Personal Essay
- Richard D. Poll 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 Hughes for The Trophy
Honorary Lifetime Membership
1995
Biography
- Maureen Ursenbach Beecher 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 Williams for "Desert Quartet"
Poetry
- Marden J. Clark for "Snows"
Short Fiction
- Tory C. Anderson for "Epiphany"
Young Adult Literature
- Louise Plummer for The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman[7]
1996
Biography
- Marian Robertson Wilson for Leroy Robertson: 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 Norris for Collected Poems
Short Fiction
- Paul Rawlins for No Lie Like Love: Stories
Young Adult Literature
- Pat Bezzant for Angie[7]
1997
Criticism
- Richard Dilworth Rust for Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon
Devotional Literature
- Chieko N. Okazaki for Sanctuary
Drama
- Eric Samuelsen for Gadianton
Personal Essay
- Holly Welker for "What You Walk Away From"
Poetry
- Susan Elizabeth Howe for Stone Spirits
Short Fiction
- Brady Udall for "Beautiful Places"[7]
1998
Devotional Literature
- Clark L. Kidd and Kathryn H. Kidd for A Convert's Guide to Mormon Life
Marilyn Brown Novel Award
- Jack Harrell for Vernal Promises
Novel
- Dean Hughes 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 Bates for The Taker's Key[7]
1999
Devotional Literature
- Neal A. Maxwell for One More Strain of Praise
Drama
- Eric Samuelsen for The Way We're Wired
Novel
- Anne Perry for Tathea
Personal Essay
- Martha Beck for Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
Short Fiction
- Mary Clyde for Survival Rates[7]
2000
Criticism
- Benson Parkinson
Devotional Literature
- Patricia Terry Holland for A Quiet Heart
Drama
- Margaret Blair Young for I Am Jane
Film
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Alan Mitchell for Angel of the Danube
Novel
- Margaret Blair Young for One More River to Cross
Personal Essay
- Gordon B. Hinckley for Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
Short Fiction
- Darrell Spencer for "Caution: Men in Trees"[10]
2001
Children's Literature
- Don H. Staheli 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
- A. Jeff Call for Mormonville
Middle Grade Literature
- Carol Lynch Williams for My Angelica
Novel
- Brady Udall for The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Review
- Jeffrey Needle
Young Adult Literature
- Louise Plummer for A Dance for Three[10]
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 Vuissa for Roots and Wings
Film Honorable Mention
- Andrew Black for "The Snell Show"
- Ryan Little for Out of Step
Film Adaptation
- Janine Whetton Gilbert for Charly
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Lavina Fielding Anderson
- 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 Leavitt for The Dollmage
- Kimberley Heuston for The Shakeress[11]
2003
Drama
- LeeAnne Hill Adams for Archipelago
Editing
- Chris Bigelow for Irreantum
Film Adaptation
- Anne K. Black, Jason Faller, and Katherine Swigert for 'Pride and Prejudice
Historical Fiction
- Margaret Blair Young for Standing on the Promises
- Janean Justham for House Dreams
Novel
- Douglas Thayer for The Conversion of Jeff Williams
Publishing
Short Fiction
- Coke Newell 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 Dante's Daughter
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Shannon Hale for The Goose Girl
- Kristen D. Randle for Slumming[11]
2004
Criticism
Film
- Adam Abel for Saints and Soldiers
Middle Grade Literature
- Patricia Wiles for My Mom's a Mortician
Middle Grade Literature Honorable Mention
- Randall Wright for Hunchback
Novel
- P. G. Karamesines for The Pictograph Murders
Novel Honorable Mention
- Amber Esplin for Leaving Eden
Poetry
- John Talbot for The Well-Tempered Tantrum
Special Award Honorable Mention
- The J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah
Young Adult Literature
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Mette Ivie Harrison for Mira, Mirror
- Janette Rallison for Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws[12]
2005
Biography
Criticism
- William Morris, P. G. Karamesines, Kent Larsen, and Eric Russell for A Motley Vision
Film
- Greg Whiteley for New York Doll
- Arianne B. Cope for The Coming of Elijah
Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention
- Donald Marshall for Seeker
Novel
Novel Honorable Mention
- Orson Scott Card for Magic Street
- Roger Terry for God's Executioner
Poetry
- Lance Larsen for In All Their Animal Brilliance
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
- Dean Hughes for Children of the Promise
Special Award
- Michael and Laura Allred for The Golden Plates
Young Adult Literature
- Shannon Hale for Princess Academy
- Patricia Wiles for Funeral Home Evenings
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Dean Hughes for Search and Destroy
- David Farland for Of Mice and Magic, Ravenspell Book One[12]
2006
Criticism
- Patricia Karamesines for "The Rhetoric of Stealing God"
Drama
- Tim Slover for Treasure
Film
- Annie Poon for The Book of Visions
Film Honorable Mention
- Melissa Puente for Sisterz in Zion
- Tom Russell for Angie
Novel
- Toni Sorensen Brown for Redemption Road
Novel Honorable Mention
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 Atta Boy'
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
Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention
- Shannon Hale for River Secrets
- Janette Rallison for It's a Mall World After All[13]
2007
Biography
- Carol Cornwall Madsen for An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920
Criticism
- Terryl L. Givens for People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
Drama
- Carol Lynn Pearson for Facing East
Film
- Todd Petersen for Rift
Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention
- Helynne Hollstein Hansen for Voices at the Crossroads
- Janet Kay Jensen for Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys
Novel
- Coke Newell for On the Road to Heaven
Novel Honorable Mention
- Dean Hughes for Before the Dawn
- Brandon Sanderson for The Well of Ascension
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
Special Award
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 Sanderson for Alcatraz Vs. the Evil Librarians[13]
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
Drama
- James Goldberg for Prodigal Son
Personal Essay
- Patrick Madden for "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart"
- Stephen Carter for "Calling"
Film
- Christian Vuissa for Errand of Angels
- Ron Williams for Happy Valley
Special Award in Criticism
Special Award in Textual Criticism and Bibliography
- Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee and Richard L. Jensen for The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals Series, vol. 1, Journals 1832-1839
Special Award in History
Smith-Petit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
Lifetime AML Membership
2009
Drama
- Melissa Leilani Larson for Little Happy Secrets
Film
- Jed Wells for Fire Creek
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- James D'Arc
Humor
- Elna Baker 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 Petersen 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
Young Adult Literature
- Carol Lynch Williams for The Chosen One [14]
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 Jer3miah
Editing
- Eric W. Jepson for "Comics!" Sunstone #160
- Angela Hallstrom for Dispensation: Latter-day Fiction
Memoir
- George B. Handley for Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
Novel
- Brady Udall 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
Young Adult Literature
- Ally Condie for Matched[15]
2011
Biography
- Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow for Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Autobiography
- Emma Lou Warner Thayne for The Place of Knowing: a Spiritual Autobiography
Criticism
- Brant A. Gardner for The Gift and Power : Translating the Book of Mormon
Film
- Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten for Sons of Perdition
Special Award in Graphical Narrative
- Michael Dalton Allred for a lifetime of comic art
Novel
Personal Essay
- Adam Miller
Poetry
- Tyler Chadwick for editing Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets
Short Story
- David G. Pace for "American Trinity"
Short Fiction
- Doug Thayer for Wasatch : Short Stories and a Novella
Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
Special Award in Literary Journalism
- Andrew Hall
Young Adult Novel
- Robison Wells for Variant
- Paul Colt for Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory
Honorary Lifetime Membership
2012
Smith Pettit Award
Novel
- The Five Books of Jesus by James Goldberg
Devotional
- Terryl and Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
Poetry
- Amytis Leaves Her Garden by Karen Kelsay
Award in Adaptation
- Michael Hicks for The Street-Legal Version of Mormon’s Book
Film
- Redemption, directed by Thomas Russell
Drama
- Roof Overhead by Mahonri Stewart
Short Fiction
- "Godshift" by Nancy Fulda (originally appeared in Daily Science Fiction)
Young Adult Novel
- Vodnik by Bryce Moore
Memoir/Creative Non Fiction
- The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks
Middle Grade Fiction Award
- False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Humor
- "Pat and Pete" by Larry Day (from his collection Day Dreaming: Tales from the Fourth Dementia)
Lifetime AML membership
2013
Given out April 12, 2014.
Creative non-fiction
- Melissa Dalton-Bradford for Global Mom: Eight Countries, Sixteen Addresses, Five Languages, One Family
Drama
- Ariel Mitchell for A Second Birth
Film
- Garrett Batty for The Saratov Approach
Special Award
- Scott Hales for The Garden of Enid
Novel
- Sarah Eden Longing for Home
Poetry
- Alex Caldiero sonosuono (awarded on March 28, 2015)
- Other finalists
- Susan Elizabeth Howe Salt
- Lance Larsen Genius Loci
- Other finalists
Short Fiction
- Brad R. Torgersen “The Chaplain’s Legacy”. Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2013 (awarded on March 28, 2015)
- 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
- Other finalists
Smith-Petit Award for service to Mormon Letters
Outstanding Achievement Award
Young Adult Fiction
- Cindy M. Hogan Gravediggers
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
2014
Given out March 28, 2015, at the Utah Valley University Library.[21]
Comics
- iPlates, Volume 2: Prophets, Priests, Rebels, and Kings by Stephen Carter and Jett Atwood
Creative non-fiction
- Hemingway on a Bike by Eric Freeze
- 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
- Other finalists
Criticism
- Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, editor
- 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
- Other finalists
Drama
- Pride and Prejudice by Melissa Leilani Larsen
- 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
- Other finalists
Film
- Saints and Soldiers: The Void, Ryan Little, director
- Other finalists
- Inspired Guns, Adam White, director
- The Last Straw, Rob Diamond, director
- Meet the Mormons, Blair Treu, director
- Mitt, Greg Whiteley, director
- Other finalists
Honorary Lifetime Membership
- Lance Larsen
- Karen Rosenbaum
Middle Grade Novel
- The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
- 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
- City of Brick and Shadow by Tim Wirkus
- Honorable Mention: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
- 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
- Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, illustrated by Kathleen Peterson
- 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
- Picture Dictionary by Kristen Eliason
- 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
- Other finalists
Religious Non-Fiction
- Re-Reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World’s Greatest Poem by Michael Austin
- 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
- Other finalists
Short Fiction
- “Two-Dog Dose” by Steven L. Peck, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 2014
- 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
- Other finalists
Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
Young Adult General Novel
- Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe
- 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
- Other finalists
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
- Other finalists
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
- Phyllis Barber[23]
The Association for Mormon Letters Lifetime Achievement Award
- Donald R. Marshall[23]
Special Awards for Scholarly Publishing
- The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism edited by Terryl L. Givens and Philip L. Barlow
- Nephi Anderson's Dorian: A Peculiar Edition With Annotated Text & Scholarship edited by Eric W. Jepson
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
- The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism edited by Terryl L. Givens and Philip L. Barlow
- Nephi Anderson's Dorian: A Peculiar Edition With Annotated Text & Scholarship edited by Eric W. Jepson
Drama[25]
- Pilot Program by Melissa Leilani Larson
- A/Version of Events by Matthew Ivan Bennett
- Princess Academy by Lisa Hall Hagen, adapted from Shannon Hale
Film[26]
Lyrics[27]
-
- Smoke + Mirrors from Imagine Dragons
- Ones and Sixes from Low
- Until I Live from The National Parks
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
- The Agitated Heart by J. Scott Bronson
- Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia
- His Right Hand by Mette Ivie Harrison
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
- 1 2 3 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ http://mldb.byu.edu/AML%20Awards/Awards1983.htm
- ↑ "[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.
- ↑ https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/issues/064.pdf
- ↑ Sunstone Feb. 1989, p.51
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/086-62-69.pdf
- ↑ Peterson, Levi S., "In Memoriam: Samuel W. Taylor" Sunstone Magazine August 1998
- 1 2 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ http://blog.mormonletters.org/?p=4367
- ↑ Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ http://blog.mormonletters.org/?p=6111
- ↑ Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ Association for Mormon Letters awards database Accessed 6 Feb 2016.
- ↑ Hall, Andrew (5 Mar 2016). "2015 AML Award Winners". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 5 Mar 2016.
- 1 2 Hall, Andrew (21 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Lifetime Awards". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 22 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 Hall, Andrew (1 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Awards Finalists #1: Creative Non-Fiction and Religious Non-Fiction". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 1 Feb 2016.
- 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.
- ↑ Hall, Andrew (11 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Awards Finalists #6: Film". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 11 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 3 Hall, Andrew (4 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Awards Finalists #4: Lyrics, Picture Book, and Poetry". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 4 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 Hall, Andrew (3 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Awards Finalists #3: Young Adult and Middle Grade Novel". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 4 Feb 2016.
- 1 2 3 Hall, Andrew (2 Feb 2016). "2015 AML Awards Finalists #2: Novel and Short Fiction". Dawning of a Brighter Day. Association for Mormon Letters. Retrieved 4 Feb 2016.