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Marilyn Brown Novel Award

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The Marilyn Brown Novel Award is an occasional award given to the best unpublished novel focusing on realistic cultural experiences of the Utah Region submitted for consideration. The award includes a $1000 honorarium.

The award was founded by Marilyn Brown and her husband to encourage quality fiction focused on regional Mormon experience. Beginning in 2000, the award was presented every other year by the Association for Mormon Letters. Beginning with the 2009 award, the Utah Valley University's English Department has stewardship over the award. They have broadened the award's scope to all fiction about the Utah region and intend to make it an annual award. The award has a $30000 endowment.

Past winners

2000
  • Vernal Promises by Jack Harrell
    • 2002
  • Mormonville by A. Jeff Call
    • 2004
  • House Dreams by Janean Justham
    • 2006
  • The Coming of Elijah by Arianne Cope
  • Honorable Mention: Seeker by Donald Marshall
    • 2008
  • Rift by Todd Robert Petersen
  • Honorable Mention: Voices at the Crossroads by Helynne Hollstein Hansen
  • Honorable Mention: Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys by Janet Kay Jensen
    • 2009
  • Avenging Saints by John Bennion
    • 2010
  • Across a Harvested Field by Robert Goble
    • 2011
  • Putting up Stars by Susan Auten
    • 2012
  • Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory by Paul Colt
    • 2013
  • A Boy Scout’s Field Guide to the Red-shifting Universe by Scott Hatch
    • 2014
  • Clawing Eagle by Christy Monson

    • References

    Marilyn Brown Novel Award Wikipedia
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