Jump to content The AML Awards are given annually by the Association for Mormon Letters (AML) 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.[1]
The award categories vary from year to year depending on the shape of the market and what the AML decides is worthy of honor. Beginning with the 2014 awards, the AML began creating a shortlist of finalists for most categories, which preceded the final awards.
1970s AML Award winners, 1975-1979 Year Categorty Author Title Ref. 1975 -1977 Critical Writing Clifton Holt Jolley The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith: An Archetypal Study , Utah Historical Quarterly , 44:4, Fall 1976.Poetry Arthur Henry King "The Field Behind Holly House," BYU Studies 16, 1976 Linda Sillitoe "The Old Philosopher " and "Letter to a Four-Year-Old Daughter" Short Fiction Donald Marshall "The Wheelbarrow " and "The Reunion," both from the collection Frost in the Orchard [2] Douglas H. Thayer "Indian Hills" and "Zarahemla," both from the collection Under Cottonwoods and Other Stories 1978 Criticism Steven P. Sondrup "Literary Dimensions of Mormon Autobiography," Dialogue 11, Summer 1978 Poetry[a] Clinton F. Larson The Western World (Brigham Young University)Marden J. Clark "God's Plenty" Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown "Grandmother" Short Fiction[b] Levi S. Peterson "The Confessions of Augustine " and "Road to Damascus" Karen Rosenbaum "Hit the Frolicking, Rippling Brooks" [2] Criticism Cindy Lesser Larsen "Whoever Heard of a Utah Poet?: An Overview of Poetry in the Early Church." Century II, 4 (Fall 1979) 1979 Poetry Marden J. Clark Moods: Of Late Edward L. Hart To Utah Short Fiction Béla Petsco Nothing Very Important and Other Stories [2]
1980s AML Award winners, 1980-1989[3] Year Category Author Title Ref. 1980 Biography Frank W. Fox J. Reuben Clark: The Public Years Criticism Linda Sillitoe "New Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women" (Dialogue, Winter 1980) Novel Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown The Earthkeepers Poetry Emma Lou Thayne Once in Israel 1981 Criticism George S. Tate The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon (in Literature and Belief )Poetry Robert A. Rees "Gilead" Linda Sillitoe "Lullaby in the New Year" and "Demons" Short Fiction Linda Sillitoe "Lullaby in the New Year" and "Demons" Robert A. Christmas "Another Angel" 1982 -1983 Criticism Eugene England "The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 Years " [4] Drama Thomas F. Rogers God's Fools: Plays of the Mitigated Conscience Editorial Award Editors of the Exponent II Mormon Humor, First Prize Calvin Grondahl God's Fools: Plays of the Mitigated Conscience Mormon Humor, Second Prize Clifton Holt Jolley Selling the Chevrolet: A Moral Exercise Novel Douglas H. Thayer Summer Fire Poetry Clinton F. Larson "Romaunt of the Rose: A Tapestry of Poems," BYU Studies , 23:1, 1983 Poetry, Young Poet's Prize Holly Ann Welker "Feet," "Patience," "On My Father's 50th Birthday," and "The Birthday Present" Sermon Neal A. Maxwell Short Fiction Levi S. Peterson The Canyons of Grace Special Award for Popular Mormon Fiction Jack Weyland Special Award for Short Story Anthology Levi S. Peterson Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories 1984 Editing & Publishing Scott Kenney Novel Orson Scott Card A Woman of Destiny (Later republished as Saints )Personal Essay Eugene England "A Dialogue with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience " Special Award Carol Lynn Pearson 1985 Criticism Steven Walker "Seven Ways of Looking at Susanna" Novel Herbert Harker Circle of Fire Personal Essay Edward Geary Goodbye to Poplarhaven Poetry Emma Lou Thayne Short Fiction Neal C. Chandler "Benediction" 1986 Children's literature Steve Wunderlie and Brent Watts (illus.)Marty's World Novel Levi Peterson The Backslider Personal and family history book Myrtle McDonald No Regrets: The Life of Carl A. Carlquist Personal and family history essay Paul M. Edwards "When Will the Little Woman Come Out of the House?" Personal Essay Susan Taber "In Jeopardy Every Hour" [5] Poetry Dennis Marden Clark "Sunwatch" Religious Literature Dennis Rasmussen The Lord’s Question Short Fiction Michael Fillerup "Hozhoogoo Nanina Doo" [6] 1987 Criticism Bruce W. Jorgensen No Regrets: The Life of Carl A. Carlquist Novel Linda Sillitoe Sideways to the Sun Personal Essay Mary Lythgoe Bradford Leaving Home Poetry Robert A. Christmas "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young" Short Fiction Darrell Spencer Woman Packing a Pistol [7] 1988 Honorary Lifetime Membership Elouise Bell Mary L. Bradford John S. Harris Gerald N. Lund Hugh Nibley Levi S. Peterson Douglas Thayer Emma Lou Thayne Laurel T. Ulrich Terry Tempest Williams William A. Wilson Novel Ann Edwards Cannon Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night (Delacorte)Personal Essay Karin Anderson England "The Man at the Chapel " Dialogue 21.4 (Winter 1988): 133-41 Poetry Dennis Marden Clark Tinder: answer might be. With an almost Augustinian Dry Poems (Orem, Utah: United Order Books, 1988)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.
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)[8] Special Recognition in Poetry Clinton F. Larson Selected Poems of Clinton F. Larson (Provo: Brigham Young University, 1988)1989 Criticism Dennis Clark "Mormon Poetry Now!: The State of the Art" (a series of four essays published in Sunstone , 1985–1989) Criticism Michael Hicks Mormonism and Music: A History (University of Illinois Press)Editing & Publishing Sunstone Magazine (Editors Scott Kenney, Allen Roberts, Peggy Fletcher, and Elbert Peck)Signature Books Novel Judith Freeman The Chinchilla Farm (Norton)Personal Essay Emma Lou Thayne As for Me and My House (Bookcraft)Poetry Susan Elizabeth Howe "Things in the Night Sky" in Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems Short Fiction Pauline Mortensen Back Before the World Turned Nasty (University of Arkansas Press)
1990s AML Award winners, 1990-1999[9] Year Category Author Title Ref. 1990 Criticism William A. Wilson "In Praise of Ourselves: Stories to Tell" Novel Franklin Fisher Bones Personal Essay Elouise Bell Only When I Laugh Poetry Loretta Randall Sharp "Doing It" Short Fiction Walter Kirn My Hard Bargain 1991 Biography Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A Midwife's Tale Editing & Publishing Signature Books and Ron Schow, Wayne Schow, Marybeth Raynes (ed.)Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation Honorary Lifetime Membership Marden J. Clark Edward L. Hart Clinton F. Larson William Mulder Helen Candland Stark Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh Maurine Whipple Novel Orson Scott Card Xenocide Gerald N. Lund Like a Fire is Burning Personal Essay Terry Tempest Williams Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Poetry Philip White "Island Spring and the Perseids", in Dialogue , Spring & Winter 1991 Short Fiction Michael Fillerup "Lost and Found" from Christmas for the World Young Adult Literature Louise Plummer My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent 1992 Biography Rudi Wobbe and Jerry BorrowmanBefore the Blood Tribunal Children's Literature Barbara J. Porter and Dileen MarshAll Kinds of Answers Honorary Lifetime Membership Richard Scowcroft [10] Emma Lou Thayne Novel Orson Scott Card Lost Boys Personal Essay Marden J. Clark Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature Poetry Kathy Evans "Imagination Comes to Breakfast" Short Fiction Margaret Blair Young Elegies and Love Songs 1993 Autobiography Phyllis Barber How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir Award for Editorial Excellence M. Shayne Bell Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor Children's Literature Michael O. Tunnell Chinook! The Joke's on George and Beauty and the Beastly Children Drama Neil Labute In the Company of Men Honorary Lifetime Membership Wayne C. Booth Steven P. Sondrup Novel Leslie Beaton Hedley Twelve Sisters Gerald N. Lund Thy Gold to Refine: The Work and the Glory, Vol. 4 Personal Essay Eugene England "Monte Cristo" in Wasatch Review International , 2:1, June 1993. Poetry Linda Sillitoe Crazy for Living Sermon Chieko N. Okazaki Lighten Up! and Cat's Cradle Service to Mormon Letters Neila Seshachari and Weber State University Weber Studies , Vol. 10.3, Tenth Anniversary IssueShort Story Darrell Spencer Our Secret's Out Young Adult Literature Martine Bates The Dragon's Tapestry and The Prism Moon 1994 Biography William G. Hartley My Best for the Kingdom: John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman Criticism Gideon O. Burton "Towards a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask 'Is This Mormon Literature?'" Drama Eric Samuelsen Accommodations: a Play in Three Acts Honorary Lifetime Membership Samuel W. Taylor [11] Novel Anne Perry The Sins of the Wolf Personal Essay Richard D. Poll "A Liahona Latter-day Saint " Poetry Pamela Porter Hamblin "Magi" Short Fiction Wayne Jorgensen "Who Tarzan, Who Jane" Young Adult Literature Dean Hughes The Trophy 1995 Biography Maureen Ursenbach Beecher The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow Criticism Michael Austin How to Be a Mormo-American; Or, The Function of Mormon Criticism at the Present Time Drama Tim Slover March Tale Essay Terry Tempest Williams Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape Novel Mack Hedges Last Buckaroo Poetry Marden J. Clark "Snows" Short Fiction Tory C. Anderson "Epiphany" Young Adult Literature Louise Plummer The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman 1996 Biography Marian Robertson Wilson Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies Children's Literature Rick Walton You Don't Always Get What You Hope For Criticism Bruce W. Jorgensen "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 Joyful Noise Novel Judith Freeman A Desert of Pure Feeling Personal Essay Kenneth O. Kemp "3/4-inch Marine Ply" Poetry Leslie Norris Collected Poems Short Fiction Paul Rawlins No Lie Like Love: Stories Young Adult Literature Pat Bezzant Angie 1997 Criticism Richard Dilworth Rust Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon Devotional Literature Chieko N. Okazaki Sanctuary Drama Eric Samuelsen Gadianton Personal Essay Holly Welker "What You Walk Away From" Poetry Susan Elizabeth Howe Stone Spirits Short Fiction Brady Udall Beautiful Places 1998 Devotional Literature Clark L. Kidd and Kathryn H. Kidd A Convert's Guide to Mormon Life Novel Dean Hughes Far from Home Personal Essay Tom Plummer Eating Chocolates and Dancing in the Kitchen: Sketches of Marriage and Family Poetry Alex Caldiero Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings Short Fiction Helen Walker Jones The Six-Buck Fortune Young Adult Literature Martine Bates The Taker's Key 1999 Devotional Literature Neal A. Maxwell One More Strain of Praise Drama Eric Samuelsen The Way We're Wired Marilyn Brown Novel Award Jack Harrell Every Knee Shall Bow (published in 2003 as Vernal Promises)Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention Laura Dene Card The Wildest Waste Alan Rex Mitchell Barry Monroe’s Missionary Journal Dorothy W. Peterson Windows Novel Anne Perry Tathea Personal Essay Martha Beck Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic Short Fiction Mary Clyde Survival Rates
2000s AML Award winners, 2000-2009[12] Year Category Author Title 2000 Criticism Benson Parkinson AML-List Devotional Literature Patricia Terry Holland A Quiet Heart Drama Margaret Blair Young I Am Jane Film Richard Dutcher God's Army Honorary Lifetime Membership Richard Cracroft Novel Margaret Blair Young and Darius Gray One More River to Cross Personal Essay Gordon B. Hinckley Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes Short Fiction Darrell Spencer Caution: Men in Trees 2001 Children's Literature Don Staheli The Story of the Walnut Tree 2001 Criticism Dian Monson Believing in the Word Drama J. Scott Bronson Stones Honorary Lifetime Membership Thomas F. Rogers Marilyn Brown Novel Award A. Jeff Call Mormonville Middle Grade Literature Carol Lynch Williams My Angelica Novel Brady Udall The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint Review Jeffrey Needle Young Adult Literature Louise Plummer A Dance for Three 2002 Drama Reed McColm Hole in the Sky Drama Honorable Mention Melissa Leilani Larson Wake Me When It's Over Tim Slover Hancock County Film Christian Vuissa Roots and Wings Film Adaptation Janine Whetton Gilbert Charly Film Honorable Mention Andrew Black The Snell Show Ryan Little Out of Step Honorary Lifetime Membership Lavina Fielding Anderson Bruce Wayne Jorgensen In Memoriam Neila Seshachari Novel Chris Crowe Mississippi Trial, 1955 Picture Book Rick Walton Bertie Was a Watchdog Poetry Kimberly Johnson Leviathan with a Hook Short Fiction Susan Palmer "Breakthrough" in Sunstone , issue 122, pages 42-45, April 2002. Short Fiction Honorable Mention Linda Paulson Adams "First" Karen Rosenbaum "Out of the Woods" Young Adult Literature Ann Edwards Cannon Charlotte's Rose Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention Kimberley Heuston The Shakeress Martine Leavitt The Dollmage 2003 Drama LeeAnne Hill Adams Archipelago Editing Chris Bigelow Irreantum Film Adaptation Anne K. Black , Jason Faller , and Katherine SwigertPride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy Historical Fiction Margaret Blair Young and Darius Gray Standing on the Promises Marilyn Brown Novel Award Janean Justham House Dreams Novel Douglas Thayer The Conversion of Jeff Williams Publishing BYU Studies Quarterly Short Fiction Coke Newell "Toaster Road" Short Fiction Honorable Mention William Shunn "The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain " Robert Wagoner "A Good Sign " Young Adult Literature Kimberley Heuston Dante's Daughter Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention Shannon Hale The Goose Girl Kristen Randle Slumming 2004 Criticism Meridian Magazine Film Adam Abel Saints and Soldiers Middle Grade Literature Patricia Wiles My Mom's a Mortician Middle Grade Literature Honorable Mention Randall Wright Hunchback Novel P. G. Karamesines The Pictograph Murders Novel Honorable Mention Amber Esplin Leaving Eden Poetry John Talbot The Well-Tempered Tantrum Special Award Honorable Mention The J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah Young Adult Literature Shannon Hale Enna Burning Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention Mette Ivie Harrison Mira, Mirror Janette Rallison Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws 2005 Biography Richard Lyman Bushman Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling Criticism William Morris , P. G. Karamesines, Kent Larsen, and Eric RussellA Motley Vision Film Greg Whiteley New York Doll Marilyn Brown Novel Award Arianne B. Cope The Coming of Elijah Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention Donald Marshall Seeker Novel Brandon Sanderson Elantris Novel Honorable Mention Orson Scott Card Magic Street Roger Terry God's Executioner Poetry Lance Larsen In All Their Animal Brilliance Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Dean Hughes Children of the Promise Special Award Allred Laura The Golden Plates Young Adult Literature Shannon Hale Princess Academy Patricia Wiles Funeral Home Evenings Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention David Farland Of Mice and Magic, Ravenspell Book One Dean Hughes Search and Destroy 2006 Criticism Patricia Karamesines The Rhetoric of Stealing God Drama Tim Slover Treasure Film Annie Poon The Book of Visions Film Honorable Mention Melissa Puente Sisterz in Zion Tom Russell Angie Novel Toni Sorensen Brown Redemption Road Novel Honorable Mention Orson Scott Card Empire Brandon Sanderson Mistborn Personal Essay John Bennion "Like the Lilies of the Field" Personal Essay Honorable Mention Wilfried Decoo "The Unspeakable" Patricia Karamesines "The Birds of Summer " Service to AML Angela Hallstrom Short Fiction Kristen Carson "Atta Boy" Short Fiction Honorable Mention Virginia Baker "And Cry the Name of David" Heather Marx "Brother Singh" Aaron Orullian "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. HaleTrapped By the Mormons Young Adult Literature Brandon Mull Fablehaven Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention Shannon Hale River Secrets Janette Rallison It's a Mall World After All 2007 Biography Carol Madsen An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920 Criticism Terryl L. Givens People of Paradox: The History of Mormon Culture Drama Carol Pearson Facing East Film Helen Whitney The Mormons Marilyn Brown Novel Award Todd Petersen Rift Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention Helynne Hollstein Hansen Voices at the Crossroads Janet Kay Jensen Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys Novel Coke Newell On the Road to Heaven Novel Finalists Shannon Hale Austenland Dean Hughes Before the Dawn Brandon Sanderson The Well of Ascension Donald Smurthwaite The Boxmaker's Son Roger Terry I Am Not Wolf Alissa York Effigy Novel Honorable Mention Dean Hughes Before the Dawn Brandon Sanderson The Well of Ascension Short Fiction Lisa Torcasso Downing "Clothing Esther" Short Fiction Finalists Larry Menlove "Drought", Dialogue 40:3 (Fall 2007) Johnny Townsend "The Buzzard Tree ", Dialogue 40:4 (Winter 2007) Short Fiction Honorable Mention Darin Cozzens "Light of the New Day" Sigrid Olsen "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 Mormons and Film Young Adult Literature Ann Dee Ellis This Is What I Did Young Adult Literature Finalists Olivia Birdsall Notes on a Near-Life Experience Jessica Day George Dragon Slippers Shannon Hale Book of a Thousand Days Brandon Mull Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star Louise Plummer Finding Daddy Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention Mette Ivie Harrison The Princess and the Hound Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Vs. the Evil Librarians 2008 Drama James Goldberg Prodigal Son Film Christian Vuissa The Errand of Angels Ron Williams Happy Valley Lifetime AML Membership Terryl L. Givens Novel Angela Hallstrom Bound on Earth Personal Essay Stephen Carter "The Calling" Patrick Madden "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart " Poetry Neil Aitken The Lost Country of Sight Warren Hatch Mapping the Bones of the World Short Fiction Stephen Tuttle "Amanuensis" Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Douglas Thayer Special Award in Criticism Alan F. Keele Special Award in History Richard Turley, Jr. , Glen M. Leonard , and Ronald W. Walker Massacre at Mountain Meadows Special Award in Textual Criticism and Bibliography Dean C. Jessee , Mark Ashurst-McGee , and Richard L. Jensen The Joseph Smith Papers , Journals Series , vol. 1, Journals 1832-1839Youth Fiction Brandon Mull Fablehaven: The Grip of the Shadow Plague 2009 Drama Melissa Leilani Larson Little Happy Secrets Film Jed Wells Fire Creek Honorary Lifetime Membership James D'Arc Humor Elna Baker The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance Memoir Kathryn Soper The Year My Son and I Were Born Novel Todd Petersen Rift Novel Honorable Mention Jamie Ford Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Online Writing Sandra Tayler One Cobble at a Time Poetry Lance Larsen Backyard Alchemy Publishing Christopher Bigelow Zarahemla Books Service to AML Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury Short Fiction Larry Menlove "Path of Antelope, Pelican, and Moon" Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Levi Peterson Young Adult Literature Carol Lynch Williams The Chosen One
2010 Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Biography Criticism Grant Hardy for Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide Drama / WebFilm Editing Eric W. Jepson for "Comics!" Sunstone #160 Angela Hallstrom for Dispensation: Latter-day Fiction Memoir Novel Online Writing Personal Essay Poetry Marilyn Bushman-Carlton for Her Side of It: Poems Service to AML Short Fiction Jack Harrell for A Sense of Order and Other Stories Short Fiction Honorable Mention Darin Cozzens for Light of the New Day and Other Stories Young Adult Literature 2011 Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Honorary Lifetime Membership Biography 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 Novel Personal Essay Adam Miller, for the body of his work published in 2011 Poetry Tyler Chadwick for editing Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets (Peculiar Pages) Short Story David G. Pace for "American Trinity" Short Fiction Special Award in Literary Journalism Young Adult Novel Marilyn Brown Novel Award Paul Colt for Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory 2012 Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Lifetime AML Membership Mahonri Stewart Christopher Bigelow[16] [17] Film Novel The Five Books of Jesus by James GoldbergDevotional Poetry Amytis Leaves Her Garden by Karen KelsayAward in Adaptation Drama Roof Overhead by Mahonri StewartShort Fiction Young Adult Novel Memoir/Creative Non Fiction Middle Grade Fiction Award False Prince by Jennifer A. NielsenHumor "Pat and Pete" by Larry Day (from his collection Day Dreaming: Tales from the Fourth Dementia ) 2013 Given out April 12, 2014.
Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Outstanding Achievement Award 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 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 finalistsSusan Elizabeth Howe Salt Lance Larsen Genius Loci 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 Young Adult Fiction Cindy M. Hogan Gravediggers Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014 Presented March 28, 2015, at the Utah Valley University Library. [19]
Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters AML Lifetime Achievement Award Comics iPlates, Volume 2: Prophets, Priests, Rebels, and Kings by Stephen Carter and Jett AtwoodCreative non-fiction Hemingway on a Bike by Eric FreezeOther finalistsTo the Mountain: One Mormon Woman’s Search for Spirit by Phyllis BarberWay Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary by Craig HarlineHippie Boy: A Girl’s Story by Ingrid Ricks Criticism Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game , Orson Scott Card , editorOther 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 Pride and Prejudice by Melissa Leilani LarsenOther finalistsThe Weaver of Raveloe by Erika Glenn and Melissa Leilani LarsenSingle Wide by George Nelson and Jordan KamaluEvening Eucalyptus by Mahonri Stewart Film Other finalists Middle Grade Novel The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie BerryHonorable Mention: The End or Something Like That by Ann Dee Ellis Other finalistsAlmost Super by Marion JensenTime of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths LittleSky Raiders by Brandon Mull Novel City of Brick and Shadow by Tim WirkusOther finalists Picture Book Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, illustrated by Kathleen PetersonOther finalistsFetch by Adam Glendon Sidwell, illustrated by Edwin RhemrevThe World According to Musk Ox by Erin Cabatingan, illustrated by Matthew MyersThe Tooth Fairy Wars by Kate Coombs, illustrated by Jake Parker Poetry Picture Dictionary by Kristen EliasonOther finalistsUncommon 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 Re-Reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World’s Greatest Poem by Michael AustinOther finalistsSeeking the Promised Land by David E. Campbell, John C. Green, and J. Quin Monson. Cambridge University PressWresting the Angel by Terryl Givens 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 Young Adult General Novel Other finalistsForbidden by Kimberley Griffiths LittleOn the Fence by Kasie WestSigned, Skye Harper by Carol Lynch Williams Stronger than You Know by Jolene Perry Young Adult Speculative Novel Other finalistsThe Paper Magician by Charlie HolmbergThe Unhappening of Genesis Lee by Shallee McArthurSon of War, Daughter of Chaos by Janette RallisonRuins 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. [20]
The Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters The Association for Mormon Letters Lifetime Achievement Award Special Awards for Scholarly Publishing Comics[22] Dendō : One Year and One Half in Japan by Brittany Long OlsenOther finalistsStripling Warrior by Brian Andersen and James NeishMy Hot Date by Noah van Sciver Creative Non-Fiction[23] My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married by Joey FranklinOther finalistsThe Accidental Terrorist by William Shunn Fresh Courage Take: New Directions by Mormon Women edited by Jamie Zvirzdin Criticism[22] Jana Riess "Mormon Popular Culture" from the first of the two nominated collections belowOther finalistsNephi Anderson 's Dorian: A Peculiar Edition With Annotated Text & Scholarship edited by Eric W. Jepson Drama[22] Pilot Program by Melissa Leilani LarsonOther finalists Film[24] Other finalists Lyrics[25] Other finalists Middle Grade Novel[26] Mothman’s Curse by Christine HayesOther finalistsA Night Divided by Jennifer A. NielsenMysteries of Cove: Fires of Invention by J. Scott SavageThe Sound of Life and Everything by Krista Van DolzerSurvival Strategies of the Almost Brave by Jen White Novel[27] Sistering by Jennifer QuistOther finalists Picture Book[25] Zombelina Dances the Nutcracker by Kristyn CrowOther finalistsTalon 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 PetersonJob Wanted by Teresa Bateman Poetry[25] Hive by Christina StoddardOther finalistsGlyphs by Colin DouglasLake of Fire: Landscape Meditations from the Great Basin Deserts of Nevada by Justin EvansLet Me Drown With Moses by James Goldberg Religious Non-Fiction[23] Traditions of the Fathers: The Book of Mormon as History by Brant A. GardnerOther finalistsThe 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 PennyPlanted: 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[27] Other finalists Short-Story Collection[27] Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives by Karen RosenbaumOther finalistsDark Watch and Other Mormon-American Stories by William MorrisWandering Realities: Mormonish Short Fiction by Steve L. Peck Young Adult Novel[26] The Storyspinner by Becky WallaceOther finalistsShutter by Courtney AlamedaInk and Ashes by Valynne MaetaniFirefight by Brandon Sanderson Fish Out of Water by Natalie Whipple 2016 Presented at Utah Valley University , April 22, 2017.[28]
The Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters AML Lifetime Achievement Award Comics Precious Rascals by Anthony HoldenOther finalistsMormon Shorts, Vol. 1 by Scott HalesWhite Sand by Brandon Sanderson (story), Rik Hoskin (script), Julius Gopez (art), and Ross Campbell (colors) Creative Non-fiction Sublime Physick by Patrick MaddenHonorable MentionBaring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex and Marriage edited by Holly Welker Other finalistsImmortal for Quite Some Time by Scott AbbottThe Latter Days: A Memoir by Judith Freeman One Hundred Birds Taught me to Fly by Ashley Mae Hoiland Criticism Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism by Jack HarrellDrama Other finalistsGregorian by Matthew GreeneKingdom of Heaven by Jenifer NiiThe King’s Men by Javen Tanner Film Other finalists Middle Grade Novel Other finalistsThe Kidnap Plot: The Incredible Adventures of Clockwork Charlie by Dave Butler Cinnamon Moon by Tess HilmoRed: The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff Novel Other finalistsSlave Queen by Heather. B. MoorePigs When they Straddle the Air by Julie J. NicholsDaredevils by Shawn Vestal Picture Book Our Heavenly Family, Our Earthly Families by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding. Illustrated by Caitlin Connolly Other finalistsWhat Would It Be Like by McArthur Krishna, Illustrated by Ayeshe Sadr & Ishaan DasguptaShe Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero by Loki Mulholland and Angela Fairwell. Illustrated by Charlotte JanssenDefenders of the Family by Benjamin Hyrum White. Illustrated by Jay Fontana Poetry Strange Terrain by Matthew James BabcockOther finalistsLeviathan by Neil Aitken flicker by Lisa BickmoreWho is the Dancer, What is the Dance by Alex Caldiero Kill February by Jeffrey Tucker Religious Non-fiction As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture edited by Julie M. SmithOther finalistsNothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes by Adam S. Miller The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy by Carol Lynn Pearson The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record by Joseph M. Spencer Special Award for Religious Non-fiction Publishing Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty by Thomas F. Rogers, edited by Jonathan Langford and Linda Hunter AdamsShort Fiction "Kid Kirby" by Levi S. Peterson (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought , 49:2, Summer 2016) Other finalists"And Thorns Will Grow There" by Emily Belanger, Sunstone #180, Spring 2016 "Light as Wings" by Spencer Hyde, Glimmer Train . Fall 2016, #97 "The Mandelbrot Set" by Heidi Naylor, Sunstone , #182, Fall 2016 "Incomplete Slaughter" by Steven L. Peck , The Colored Lens , Summer 2016 "Purytans" by Brad R. Torgersen , Analog: Science Fact and Fiction , July/Aug 2016 Short Fiction Collection The Last Blessing of J. Guyman LeGrand and Other Stories by Darin CozzensOther finalistsInvisible Men by Eric FreezeWindows into Hell by various authors, edited by James Wymore Video Series Other finalistsAdam & Eve Davey & Bianca Morrison Dillard, directorsStudio C Jared Shores and Matt Meese, co-creatorsThe Talking Fly Steve Olpin, director Young Adult Novel Other finalistsThe Passion of Dolssa by Julie BerryAnd I Darken by Kiersten White 2017 The final winners were presented March 23, 2018.
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters[31] AML Lifetime Achievement Award[31] Novel[32] The Field is White by Claire Åkebrand (Kernpunct Press)Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan (Orbit/Hachette Book Press )Prayers in Bath by Luisa Perkins (Mormon Artists Group)Nothing Left to Lose by Dan Wells (Tor )Short fiction[32] "The Pew" by Alison Maeser Brimley (originally published in Dialogue ) "Le Train à Grande Vitesse" R.A. Christmas (originally published in Dialogue ) "The Thicket" by Bradeigh Godfrey (originally published in Sunstone ) "Jane’s Journey" by Heidi Naylor (originally published in Sunstone ) "Bishop Johansen Rescues a Lost Soul: A Tale of Pleasant Grove" by Steven L. Peck (originally published in Dialogue ) Creative nonfiction[33] That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith and Family by Tom ChristoffersonLearning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion by George B. HandleyThe Burning Point by Tracy McKayOpen Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet by Brooke WilliamsNotable mentionsHeterodoxologies: Essays by Matthew James BabcockThe OCD Mormon: Finding healing and hope in the midst of anxiety by Kari FergusonDo Clouds Rest? Dementiadventures with Mom by Michael Hicks Religious nonfiction[33] Feeding the Flock: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Church and Praxis by Terryl L. Givens The Sun Has Burned My Skin by Adam S. Miller Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics edited by Blair G. Van Dyke and Loyd Isao EricsonMiddle-grade novel[34] Under Locker and Key by Allison K. Hymas (Aladdin)Mustaches for Maddie by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown (Shadow Mountain )Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry (Feiwel and Friends )Paper Chains by Elaine Vickers (Harper )Young-adult novel Comics[35] Picture book[35] Colour Blocked by Ashley Sorenson and David W. MilesHeroic Stories from The Book of Mormon by Shauna Gibby and Casey NelsonQuiet as a Church Mouse by Stephen Bevan and Jeff HarveyDrama[36] The Drown’ed Book, or the History of William Shakespeare, Part Last by Mahonri StewartNot One Drop by Morag Shepherd Film[36] Socorro written and directed by Marshal DavisThe Man in the Camo Jacket written and directed by Russ KendallOut of the Ground written and directed by Barrett BurginA Pug & Wolf Christmas created by Davey and Bianca Morrison DillardWe Love You, Sally Carmichael! written by Daryn Tufts and directed by Christopher GorhamCriticism[37] “The Second Coming of Mormon Music,” by Michael Hicks from The Kimball Challenge at Fifty: Mormon Arts Center Essays (part of original nominee The Kimball Challenge at Fifty: Mormon Arts Center Essays from Mormon Arts Center) On the Problem and Promise of Alex Caldiero ’s Sonosophy: Doing Dialogical Coperformative Ethnography; Or, Enter the Poetarium by Tyler ChadwickAnthology[37] Seasons of Change: Stories of Transition from the Writers of Segullah edited by Shelah Mastny Miner and Sandra Clark JergensenStates of Deseret edited by Wm MorrisPoetry[37] Babbage’s Dream by Neil Aitken What Was Left of the Stars by Claire ÅkebrandEphemerist by Lisa BickmoreOwning the Moon by Linda Sillitoe Special Award in Religious Non-Fiction Publishing 2018 The final winners were presented March 30, 2019, in Berkeley, California .
AML Lifetime Achievement Award[38] [39] Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters[40] [39] Special Award in Publishing[41] [39] Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry edited by Tyler Chadwick, Dayna Patterson, Martin Pulido (Peculiar Pages)Novel[42] [39] The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner by Jennifer Quist (Linda Leith Publishing)The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus (Penguin Press )Short-fiction collections[42] [39] The Science of Lost Futures by Ryan Habermeyer (BOA Editions)Revolver by Heidi Naylor (BCC Press)Beyond the Lights by Ryan Shoemaker (No Record Press)Short fiction[42] [39] Drama[41] [39] Good Standing by Matthew GreeneThe Shower Principle by Ariel MitchellPoetry[41] [39] What the Body Knows by Lance Larsen (University of Tampa Press)The Lapidary’s Nosegay by Lara Candland (The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University)The God Mask by Javen Tanner (Kelsay Books)Half-Hazard by Kristen Tracy (Graywolf Press )Creative nonfiction[43] [39] Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save my Children by Wallace Jeffs, Shauna Packer, Sherry TaylorReligious nonfiction[43] [39] An Early Resurrection: Life in Christ Before you Die by Adam S. Miller Faith Is Not Blind by Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. HafenThou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God: The Person and Work of Jesus in the New Testament edited by Eric D. Huntsman , Lincoln H. Blumell, and Tyler J. GriffinThe Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology by Jonathan Stapley On Fire in Baltimore: Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City by Laura Rutter StricklingCriticism[43] [39] Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952 by Randy Astle"Low and the Hermeneutics of Silence" by Jacob Bender (Sunstone ) "Isms and Prisms: A Mormon View on Writing about Nature and Women" by Ángel Chaparro-Sainz (Women’s Studies ) "Mormon Poetry, 2012 to the Present" by Bert Fuller (Dialogue ) A Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian: All the References from Assyrians to Zeffirelli by Darl LarsenComics[44] [39] Green Monk: Blood of the Martyrs by Brandon Dayton (Image Comics )Comic Diaries, Vol. 1 by Brittany Long Olsen (Self-published)SkyHeart Book One: The Search for the Star Seed by Jake Parker (Self-published)Cooties #11 by Nick PerkinsDocumentary film[44] [39] Narrative film[44] [39] Picture book[45] [39] Jesus is Born: A Flashlight Discovery Book by Shauna Gibby and Casey Nelson (Deseret Book )The Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeUyen Pham (Candlewick Press )If Wendell Had a Walrus by Lori Mortensen and Matt Phelan (Henry Holt and Company )If Da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur by Amy Newbold and Greg Newbold (Tilbury House Publishers)Middle-grade novel[45] [39] Young-adult novel[45] [39] 2019 The final winners were presented May 2, 2020, online, due to a cancellation of the 2020 AML Conference caused by the COVID-19 pandemic .[46] [47] [48]
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters[46] [47] Lifetime Achievement Award[46] [47] Special awards[46] [47] in Literature and Art HIVE ZINE The ARCH-HIVE in Literature and Performance Thorns and Thistles: A Concert of Literature Curated and compiled by James Goldberg and Nicole Wilkes Goldberg, directed by Ariel Rivera, music by Nicole Pinnell; supported by and performed at the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts in Literature Irreversible Things Lisa Van Orman Hadley Novel[49] The Cunning Man by D. J. Butler and Aaron Ritchey (Baen Books )Irreversible Things by Lisa Van Orman Hadley (Howling Bird Press)Maggie’s Place by Annette Haws (Covenant Communications )The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber (Skyhorse Publishing)Short fiction[49] Young-adult novel[50] Let’s Call it a Doomsday by Katie Henry (Katherine Tegan Books)Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart (Delacorte )Waiting for Fitz by Spencer Hyde (Shadow Mountain )Middle-grade novel[50] Out to Get You: Thirteen Tales of Weirdness and Woe by Josh Allen (Holiday House )The Red Flower by Kate Coombs (Blue Sparrow Books)Time Castaways: #1 The Mona Lisa Key and #2 The Obsidian Compass by Liesl Shurtliff (HarperCollins )Picture book[50] Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Extraordinary Women from Church History by McArthur Krishna, Bethany Brady Spalding, Kathleen Peterson (Deseret Book)[46] [47] Drama[51] Narrative feature films[51] Documentary feature films[51] After Selma directed by Loki MulhollandThe Jets : Making it Real directed by Kels GoodmanShort film[51] "Father of Man" directed by Barrett Burgin [46] [47] "Paper Trails" directed by Heather Moser "Stickup Kid" directed by Daniel Tu "Man and Kin" directed by Max Johnson Poetry[52] Homespun and Angel Feathers by Darlene Young (BCC Press)[46] [47] Into the Sun: Poems Revised, Rearranged, and New by Colin Douglas (Waking Lion Press)After Earth by Michael Lavers (University of Tampa Press )The Tree at the Center by Kathryn Knight Sonntag (BCC Press )The Marriage of the Moon and the Field by Sunni Brown Wilkinson (Black Lawrence Press )Criticism[52] "Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America" by Amy Easton-Flake in Representing Rural Women (edited by Whitney Womack Smith and Margaret Thomas-Evans, Lexington Books) [46] [47] "Danites, Damsels, and World Domination: Mormons in the Dime Novels" by Michael Austin in Sunstone "Wrestling with God: Invoking Scriptural Mythos in LDS Literary Work" by James Goldberg in Remember the Revolution: Mormon Essays and Stories (self-published) Mormons, Musical Theatre, and Belonging in America by Jake Johnson (University of Illinois Press )Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism by Brenda R. Weber (Duke University Press )Creative nonfiction[53] Remember the Revolution: Mormon Essays and Stories by James Goldberg (self-published)A New Constellation: A Memoir by Ashley Mae Hoiland (BCC Press)Religious nonfiction[53] A Place to Belong: Reflections from Modern Latter-day Saint Women edited by Hollie Rhees Fluhman and Camille Fronk Olson (Deseret Book)[46] [47] If Truth Were a Child: Essays by George B. Handley (Maxwell Institute)The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church by Jana Riess (Oxford University Press )Comics[53] That’s One Small Step for a Mom, One Giant Leap for Missionarykind by Kevin Beckstrom (self-published)[46] [47] 2020 The final winners were presented June 5, 2021, as part of an online-only conference, due to the COVID-19 pandemic .[54] [55]
Lifetime Achievement[56] Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters[57] Special Award in Religious Nonfiction[58] The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions (Maxwell Institute)General editors: Spencer Fluhman and Philip Barlow Series editors: D. Morgan Davis, James E. Faulconer , Kristine Haglund , Joseph M. Spencer, Rosalynde Welch Authors: Joseph M. Spencer, Terryl L. Givens , Deidre Nicole Green, Sharon J. Harris, James E. Faulconer, Kylie Turley, Mark Wrathall , Kimberly Berkey, Daniel Becerra, Adam S. Miller , Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, David F. Holland Illustrator: Brian Kershisnik Special Award in Nonfiction Editors: Carol Edison, Eric A. Eliason, Lynne S McNeill Novel[59] Bountiful by Charity Shumway (BCC Press)Other finalists: Short story[59] "The Water Between Us" by Ryan Shoemaker (Barzakh 12, Spring 2020)Other finalists:"Every Nerve Singing" by Ryan Habermeyer (Fugue 58, Winter/Spring 2020) "Upcycling Death" by M.K. Hutchins (Brain Games: Stories to Astonish ) "Certain Places" by William Morris (Dialogue 53:2, Summer 2020) "The Overcoat by Maurine Whipple (Irreantum 17.1, Fall 2020) Short-fiction collection[59] A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple by Maurine Whipple , edited by Veda Hale, Andrew Hall, and Lynne Larson (BCC Press)Other finalist: Poetry[59] Other finalists:I, Taliesin by Michael R. Collings (Self-published)Ese golpe de luz by Gabriel González Núñez (FlowerSong Books)An Imperfect Roundness by Melody Newey Johnson (BCC Press) Creative nonfiction[60] Lies of the Magpie: A Memoir by Maleah Day Warner (Author Academy Elite)Other finalists: Religious nonfiction[60] Buried Treasures: Reading the Book of Mormon Again for the First Time by Michael Austin (BCC Press)Other finalists:Mercy without End by Lavina Fielding Anderson (Signature Books)Visions in a Seer Stone; Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William L. Davis (University of North Carolina Press )Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism by Taylor G. Petrey (University of North Carolina Press)The Book of Mormon For the Least of These, volume 1: 1 Nephi-Words of Mormon by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming (BCC Press) Audiobook[60] Clogs and Shawls: Mormons, Moorlands, and the Search for Zion by Ann Chamberlin, narrated by Jacqueline de BoerOther finalists:Witchy War Series (Witchy Eye , Witchy Winter , Witchy Kingdom ) by D. J. Butler , narrated by Courtney PattersonKingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier by Benjamin Park , narrated by Bob SouerThe Book of Mormon for the Least of These, volume 1 by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemmings, narrated by Margaret Olsen HemmingsChurch History Department. Saints, Book 2, No Unhallowed Hand: 1846-1893 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , history department , narrated by Kirby Heyborne Podcast[60] [c] Other finalists:The Center’s Studio Podcast from the Center for Latter-day Arts, hosted by Glen NelsonMattathias Reads the World , hosted by Mattathias WestwoodUnfinished: Short Creek , part of Witness Docs from Stitcher , hosted by Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre Picture book[61] Other finalists: Middle-grade novel[61] 96 Miles by J. L. Esplin (Starscape/Tor Teen )Other finalists: Young-adult novel[61] Other finalists: Comics[62] Future Day Saints: Welcome to New Zion by Matt Page Other finalists:Everything Is Going to Be Okay by Dani JonesPillar of Light: Joseph Smith’s First Vision by Andrew G. Knaupp and Sal VellutoMagic in the Valley: The Story of Moira Green, Witch by Brittany Long Olsen Criticism[62] "Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand our Understanding" by Anthony Sweat (BYU Religious Studies Center)Other finalists:Spencer Kimball’s Record Collection: Essays on Mormon Music by Michael Hicks (Signature)"The 'New Woman' and the Woman’s Exponent : An Editorial Perspective" by Carol Cornwall Madsen (BYU Studies Quarterly , 59:3, 2000) Josephine Spencer : Her Collected Works, Vol. 1, 1887-1899 edited by Ardis E. Parshall and Michael Austin (BCC Press)A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple edited by Veda Hale, Andrew Hall, and Lynne Larson (BCC Press) Drama[62] Other finalists:The Captivity of Hannah Dunston by Glen Nelson (liberetto) and Lansing McLoskey (music) (Guerilla Opera Company )Give Me Moonlight by Ariel Mitchell (Motor House, Baltimore )Escape from Planet Death by Tom Russell and BYU School of Media Arts Students (BYU) Film[62] Other finalist:Gruff written and directed by Kohl Glass 2021 The winners were announced July 23, 2022, at the AML Conference. Note that, for the fiction awards, the additional of bilingual judges led to the consideration of Spanish -language works published as far back as 2016. Additionally, with the return of a lyrics award, music was considered from both 2020 and 2021.[63]
AML Lifetime Achievement Award Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Special award in fiction[64] Estampas del Libro de Mormón by Gabriel González NúñezSpecial award in nonfiction[63] Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal by Kristine L. Haglund (University of Illinois Press)
Novel[64] [63] Eleusis:The Long and Winding Road by R. de la Lanza (Intendencia de las Letras/Ulterior Editorial)The Jupiter Knife by D. J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchie (Baen)Picnic in the Ruins by Todd Robert Petersen (Counterpoint)Noria by Juan Antonio Santoyo (Ulterior Editorial)Short fiction[64] [63] "Y no preguntes mas . . ." ("So Ask no More . . .") by Mario R. Montani (Irreantum ) "Good Shepherd Church" by Riley Clay (Irreantum ) "Between Glory and Ruin" James Goldberg (A Desolating Sickness: Stories of Pandemic) "Skillick’s Bride" Rachel Helps[d] "The Wall" by Spencer Hyde (Image ) Young Adult Novel[65] [63] Beyond the Mapped Stars by Rosalyn Eves (Knopf)A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg (Feiwel & Friends)Where I Belong Marcia Mickelson (Carolrhoda Lab)Fadeaway by E. B. Vickers (Knopf)In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner (Crown Books)Middle Grade Novel[65] [63] Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera (HarperCollins)Breathing Underwater by Sarah Allen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Horace & Bunwinkle: The Case of the Rascally Raccoon by P.J. Gardner (illustrated by Dave Mottram) (Balzer + Bray)Friends Forever by Shannon Hale (illustrated by Leuyen Pham) (First Second)Tips for Magicians by Celesta Rimington (Crown Books for Young Readers)Picture Book[65] [63] A Child of God by Chantel Bonner, Mauli Bonner, and Morgan Bissant (Shadow Mountain/Ensign Peak)The Boy and the Sea by Camile Andros and Amy June Bates (Abrams)We Believe: Illustrated Articles of Faith by Annie Poon (Covenant)Thankful by Elaine Vickers and Samantha Cotterill (Paula Wiseman Books)10 Little Disciples by Sierra Wilson (Ambassador-Emerald Intl)Film[66] [63] Witnesses (directed by Mark Goodman, written by Mitch Davis )His Name is Green Flake (directed and written by Mauli Bonner)Maggie on Stratford Ave (directed and written by James May)Scenes from the Glittering World (directed by Jared Jakins)The Touch of the Master’s Hand (directed and written by Gregory Barnes)Drama[66] [63] REDEEMHer: How I Screwed up my perfect Mormon life by Tatum LangtonThe King Stag by Janine Sobeck KnightonGin Mummy by Melissa Leilani Larson 1820: The Musical (book: George Nelson; music and lyrics: Kayliann Lowe Juarez, Doug Lowe, and Kendra Lowe)Poetry[66] [63] The Ache and The Wing by Sunni Brown Wilkinson (Sundress Publications)Beneath the Falls by Mark D. Bennion (Resource publications)Down Their Spears by Jared Pearce (Cyberwit)Podcast[66] [63] This Is the Gospel (LDS Living )Faith Matters hosted by Aubrey Chaves, Tim Chaves, and Terryl Givens ; produced by Bill Turnbull and Branson Hirschi (Faith Matters Foundation)Latter-day Contemplation hosted by Christopher Hurtado and Riley Risto; created by Shiloh Logan and Riley Risto; edited by Christian Hutardo (Latter-day Peace Studies)Leading Saints hosted by Kurt Francom; executive produced by Kurt Francom; produced by Lillian AngelovicSunstone Mormon History (Sunstone Education Foundation )Comics[67] [63] Friends Forever by Shannon Hale (illustrated by Leuyen Pham) (First Second)Future Day Saints: The Gnomlaumite Crystal by Matt PageThe Glass Looker: Collected Tales of Joseph Smith by Mark ElwoodCriticism[67] [63] Vardis Fisher : A Mormon Novelist by Michael Austin (University of Illinois Press)“The Case for Resurrection: A Mormon Movie Manifesto” by Barrett Burgin in Mormonism and the Movies , edited by Chris Wei, (BCC Press) “Theologies of the Afterlife in Mormon Women’s Late-Nineteenth-Century Poetry” Amy Easton-Flake in Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife (Routledge) Mormonism in SF edited by Adam McClain for SFRA Review 51:3, Summer 2021.Creative Nonfiction[67] [63] Zion Earth, Zen Sky by Charles Shirō Inouye (Neal A. Maxwell Institute)Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild edited by Karin Anderson and Danielle Dubrasky (Torrey House Press)Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (She Writes Press)Scrupulous: My Obsessive Compulsion for God by Taylor Kerby (BCC Press)Where the Soul Hungers: One Doctor’s Journey from Atheism to Faith by Samuel M. Brown (Neal A. Maxwell Institute)Religious Nonfiction[67] [63] Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict by Patrick Q. Mason and J. David Pulsipher (Maxwell Institute)Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism by Terryl L. Givens (University of North Carolina Press)The Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st Century World by Patrick Q. Mason (Faith Matters)The Anatomy of Book of Mormon Theology , Vols. 1 and 2 Joseph M. Spencer (Greg Kofford Books)Humility: A Practical Approach by Shawn Tucker (BCC Press)Lyrics[67] [63] Fragility by Christian AsplundTherapy Sessions by David Archuleta A Fish of Earth by Emily BrownPressure Machine by The Killers Strangest Congregations by Andrew Wiscombe2022 Award winners were announced April 29, 2023 at a virtual conference.[68] [69]
AML Lifetime Achievement Award Michael Hicks [70] Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Stephen R. Carter [71] Novel[72] The History of Honey Spring by Darin Cozzens (Zarahemla Books)And All Eternity Shook by Jacob L. Bender (Ships of Hagoth)The Resurrection Box by Declan Hyde (Gypsy Fox Publishing)Heike’s Void by Steven L. Peck (BCC Press)Short fiction[72] "The Intelligences" ("As inteligências") by Marcelo Bighetti (translated by Kent S. Larsen) (Irreantum ) "The Profile of Daria Black" by Michaelbrent Collings (In Gilded Glass: Twisted Myths and Shattered Fairytales , WordFire Press) "The Algorithms of Happiness" by Ryan Habermeyer (Iron Horse Literary Review ) "Worlds Without End" by Tygan Shelton (Irreantum ) "Twilight of the Eye Creature" by Nathan Shumate (Cold Fusion Media) Short-fiction collection[72] The Year They Gave Women the Priesthood and Other Stories by Michael Fillerup (Signature Books)Down the Arches of the Years by Lee Allred (Hemelein Publications)The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories by William Morris (BCC Press)Sharks in an Inland Sea by Lehua Parker (Hemelein Publications)Drama[73] The Wrong People Have Money by Reed McColm. Varscona Theatre, Alberta. Shadow Theatre.A. D. 16 by Bekah Brunstetter (book) and Cinco Paul (story, music, and lyrics). Olney Theatre Center, Olney, Maryland.Mestiza, or Mixed by Melissa Leilani Larson . Plan-B Theatre, Salt Lake City.Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maude by Julie Jensen. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City. Pygmalion Productions.Creative Nonfiction[74] The Burning Book by Jason Olson and James Goldberg (BCC Press)The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sun by Phyllis Barber (Torrey House Press)Wineskin: Freakin’ Jesus in the ‘60s and ‘70s by Michael Hicks (Signature Books)East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage by Rachel Rueckert (BCC Press)Religious Nonfiction[75] Ancient Christians: An Introduction for Latter-day Saints edited by Jason R. Combs, Mark D. Ellison, Cathrine Gines Taylor, and Kristian S. Heal. (Maxwell Institute )Book of Mormon Studies: An Introduction and Guide by Daniel Becerra, Amy Easton-Flake, Nicholas J. Frederick, and Joseph M. Spencer. (Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center )Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness edited by Caroline Kline. (University of Illinois Press )Original Grace: An Experiment in Restoration Thinking by Adam S. Miller (Maxwell Institute/Deseret Book )The Book of Mormon for the Least of These: Vol. 2, Mosiah-Alma by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming (BCC Press)Criticism (long-form)[74] Mormonism, Empathy , and Aesthetics : Beholding the Body by Gary Ettari (Palgrave Macmillan)Experiment upon the Word by Frederik S. Kleiner (BCC Press)John Held Jr. ’s Fiction by Glen Nelson (Center for Latter-day Saint Art)Criticism (short-form)[74] "The Divine Feminine in Mormon Art" by Margaret Olsen Hemming (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought ) "Lands Before Time: Plan of Salvation Typology in the Films of Don Bluth " by Randy Astle (Irreantum ) "Apologia Unmasked: Brigham City , Film Noir and the Future of Mormon Cinema " by Lane Welch (Utah Monthly ) "The Secular Syllabus and the Sacred Book: Literary Scholars Approach the Book of Mormon " by Rosalynde Welch (Journal of Book of Mormon Studies ) Young-adult novel[76] Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey (Scholastic)Wakers by Orson Scott Card (Margaret K. McElderry Books)The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho (HarperTeen)This Might Get Awkward by Kara McDowell (Scholastic)The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart (Declorate)Middle-grade novel[76] Willis Wilbur Wows the World by Lindsey Leavitt (Penguin Workshop)The Legend of the Dream Giants by Dustin Hansen (Shadow Mountain)The Hope of Elephants by Amanda Rawson Hill (Charlesbridge)Lines of Courage by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic)Secrets of the Looking Glass by J. Scott Savage (Shadow Mountain)Picture book[76] Bedtime Stories for Girls of Destiny by Raeleigh Wilkinson (Cedar Fort)A Book, Too, Can Be A Star: The Story of Madeleine L’Engle and the Making of A Wrinkle in Time by Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Jennifer Adams (authors), Andelina Lirius (illustrator)Mud! by Annie Bailey (author) and Jen Corace (illustrator) (Abrams Appleseed)Pirates Don’t Dance by Shawna J. C. Tenney (Sleeping Bear)Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham (Abrams)Comics[77] Joseph Smith and the Mormons by Noah Van Sciver (Abrams ComicArts)The Glass Looker: Volume 2 by Mark Elwood (Luman Books)The Manderfield Devil by Rachel Allen Everett (independently published)Beware the Eye of Odin Doug Wagner (writer) and Tim Odland (artist) (Image Comics )Poetry[77] Fatal by Kimberly Johnson (Persea Books)Litany with Wings by Tyler Chadwick (BCC Press)Golden Ax by Rio Cortez (Penguin)Drift Migration by Danielle Beazer Dubrasky (Ashland Poetry Press)Hemingway in Paradise and other Mormon Poems by Scott Hales (Mormon Lit Lab)Special Award in Publishing—Republication[77] The Corianton Saga edited by Ardis E. Parshall (BCC Press)A Vision Splendid: The Discourses of David O. McKay edited by Anne-Marie Wright Lampropoulos (Greg Kofford Books)The Bacillus of Beauty by Harriet Stark, edited by Joe Monson (Hemelein Publications)Film[75] The Mission . Tania Anderson, director. Danish Bear Productions.The Brilliant Darkness! (Dem Toi Ruc Ro! ). Aaron Toronto, director, co-writer, and co-producer. Nha Uyen Ly Nguyen, co-writer, co-producer, and lead actor.Cheer . Season 2. Greg Whiteley , creator, executive producer, director. One Potato Productions, Netflix .Lucy and Whitney . Parker Gehring, director and writer.WWJD . Davey Morrison and Bianca Dillard, directors. Written by Davey Morrison and Anna Lewis. Based on a play by Anna Christina Kohler Lewis.Podcast[78] This Global Latter-day Life (Caroline Kline, host and writer; Claremont Graduate University , Claremont Mormon Studies; Dialogue Podcast Network )Come Follow Me Kids (Bay Kids)Leading Saints (Kurt Francom, host/executive producer; Lillian Angelovic, producer)Tribe of Testimonies (Andrea Hales, host)Y Religion (Anthony Sweat, host and producer; Brigham Young University Religious Education )See also Notes References