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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 panel of judges. Citations for many of the awards can be found on the AML website

Contents

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"

    • 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"

    • 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 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"

    • 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"

    • 1982

    (lost)

    1983

    Criticism

  • Eugene England 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

    • 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

  • Neal A. Maxwell

    • Short Fiction

  • Levi S. Peterson for The Canyons of Grace

    • Special Award for Popular Mormon Fiction

  • Jack Weyland

    • Special Award for Short Story Anthology

  • Levi S. Peterson for Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories

    • 1984

    Editing & Publishing

  • Scott Kenney

    • Novel

  • Orson Scott Card for Saints, A Woman of Destiny

    • Personal Essay

  • Eugene England for A Dialogue with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience

    • Special Award

  • Carol Lynn Pearson

    • 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 Thayne

    • Short Fiction

  • Neal C. Chandler for "Benediction"

    • 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

  • Susan Taber for "In Jeopardy Every Hour"

    • 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

    • 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)

    • 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

    • 1989

    Criticism

  • Michael Hicks for Mormonism and Music: A History
  • Dennis Clark for "Mormon Poetry Now!: The State of the Art"

    • Editing & Publishing

  • Sunstone
  • Signature Books

    • 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"

    • 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 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

    • 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 Card 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 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 Labute for In the Company of Men

    • 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

    • 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

  • Samuel W. Taylor

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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"

    • 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

    • 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

    • 2000

    Criticism

  • Benson Parkinson

    • Devotional Literature

  • Patricia Terry Holland for A Quiet Heart

    • Drama

  • Margaret Blair Young for I Am Jane

    • Film

  • Richard Dutcher for God's Army

    • Honorary Lifetime Membership

  • Richard Cracroft

    • Marilyn Brown Novel Award

  • 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"

    • 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

    • Marilyn Brown Novel Award

  • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Marilyn Brown Novel Award

  • Janean Justham for House Dreams

    • Novel

  • Douglas Thayer for The Conversion of Jeff Williams

    • Publishing

  • BYU Studies

    • 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

    • 2004

    Criticism

  • Meridian Magazine

    • 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

  • Shannon Hale for Enna Burning

    • Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

  • Mette Ivie Harrison for Mira, Mirror
  • Janette Rallison for Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

    • 2005

    Biography

  • Richard Lyman Bushman for Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

    • Criticism

  • William Morris, P. G. Karamesines, Kent Larsen, and Eric Russell for A Motley Vision

    • Film

  • Greg Whiteley for New York Doll

    • Marilyn Brown Novel Award

  • Arianne B. Cope for The Coming of Elijah

    • Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention

  • Donald Marshall for Seeker

    • Novel

  • Brandon Sanderson for Elantris

    • 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

    • 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

  • Orson Scott Card for Empire
  • Brandon Sanderson for Mistborn

    • 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

  • Brandon Mull for Fablehaven

    • Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

  • Shannon Hale for River Secrets
  • Janette Rallison for It's a Mall World After All

    • 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

  • Helen Whitney for The Mormons

    • Marilyn Brown Novel Award

  • 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

  • Anne Perry

    • 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 Sanderson for Alcatraz Vs. the Evil Librarians

    • 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 Mull 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 Vuissa 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. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee and Richard L. Jensen for The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals Series, vol. 1, Journals 1832-1839

    • Special Award in History

  • Richard E. Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard, and Ronald W. Walker for Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    • 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 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

  • 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 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

  • Richard Cracroft

    • Young Adult Literature

  • Ally Condie for Matched

    • 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

  • Steven L. Peck for The Scholar of Moab

    • 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

  • Marilyn Brown

    • Special Award in Literary Journalism

  • Andrew Hall

    • Young Adult Novel

  • Robison Wells for Variant

    • Marilyn Brown Novel Award

  • Paul Colt for Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory

    • Honorary Lifetime Membership

  • Gideon Burton

    • 2012

    Smith Pettit Award

  • Eric Samuelsen

    • 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

  • Mahonri Stewart
  • Christopher Bigelow

    • 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)

    • Short Fiction

  • Brad R. Torgersen “The Chaplain’s Legacy”. Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2013 (awarded on March 28, 2015)

    • Smith-Petit Award for service to Mormon Letters

  • Charlotte Hawkins England

    • Outstanding Achievement Award

  • Dean Hughes

    • Young Adult Fiction

  • Cindy M. Hogan Gravediggers

    • Young Adult Speculative Fiction

  • Brandon Sanderson for The Rithmatist

    • 2014

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

    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

    • Criticism

  • Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, editor

    • Drama

  • Pride and Prejudice by Melissa Leilani Larsen

    • Film

  • Saints and Soldiers: The Void, Ryan Little, director

    • Honorary Lifetime Membership

  • Lance Larsen
  • Karen Rosenbaum

    • Middle Grade Novel

  • The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

    • Novel

  • City of Brick and Shadow by Tim Wirkus

    • Picture Book

  • Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, illustrated by Kathleen Peterson

    • Poetry

  • Picture Dictionary by Kristen Eliason

    • Religious Non-Fiction

  • Re-Reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World’s Greatest Poem by Michael Austin

    • Short Fiction

  • “Two-Dog Dose” by Steven L. Peck, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 2014

    • Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

  • Margaret Blair Young

    • Young Adult General Novel

  • Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe

    • Young Adult Speculative Novel

  • Atlantia by Ally Condie

    • 2015

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

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

  • Phyllis Barber

    • The Association for Mormon Letters Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Donald R. Marshall

    • 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

    • Comics

  • Dendō: 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

    • Creative Non-Fiction

  • 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

    • Criticism

  • 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

  • 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

  • Peace Officer
  • Christmas Eve
  • Freetown
  • Just Let Go
  • Once I Was a Beehive

    • Lyrics

  • The Desired Effect from Brandon Flowers
  • Smoke + Mirrors from Imagine Dragons
  • Ones and Sixes from Low
  • Until I Live from The National Parks

    • Middle Grade Novel

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    • Religious Non-Fiction

  • 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

    • Short Story

  • “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

  • 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

  • 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

    • References

    AML Awards Wikipedia
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