# AML Awards

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.
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 |
| 1975-1977 | Critical Writing | Clifton Holt Jolley | The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith: An Archetypal Study, Utah Historical Quarterly, 44:4, Fall 1976. |
| 1975-1977 | Poetry | Arthur Henry King | "The Field Behind Holly House," BYU Studies 16, 1976 |
| 1975-1977 | Poetry | Linda Sillitoe | "The Old Philosopher" and "Letter to a Four-Year-Old Daughter" |
| 1975-1977 | Short Fiction | Donald Marshall | "The Wheelbarrow" and "The Reunion," both from the collection Frost in the Orchard |
| 1975-1977 | Short Fiction | 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 |
| 1978 | Poetry | Clinton F. Larson | The Western World (Brigham Young University) |
| 1978 | Poetry | Marden J. Clark | "God's Plenty" |
| 1978 | Poetry | Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown | "Grandmother" |
| 1978 | Short Fiction | Levi S. Peterson | "The Confessions of Augustine" and "Road to Damascus" |
| 1978 | Short Fiction | Karen Rosenbaum | "Hit the Frolicking, Rippling Brooks" |
| 1978 | 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 |
| 1979 | Poetry | Edward L. Hart | To Utah |
| 1979 | Short Fiction | Béla Petsco | Nothing Very Important and Other Stories |

## 1980s

AML Award winners, 1980-1989 :
| Year | Category | Author | Title |
| 1980 | Biography | Frank W. Fox | J. Reuben Clark: The Public Years |
| 1980 | Criticism | Linda Sillitoe | "New Voices, New Songs: Contemporary Poems by Mormon Women" (Dialogue, Winter 1980) |
| 1980 | Novel | Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown | The Earthkeepers |
| 1980 | 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) |
| 1981 | Poetry | Robert A. Rees | "Gilead" |
| 1981 | Poetry | Linda Sillitoe | "Lullaby in the New Year" and "Demons" |
| 1981 | Short Fiction | Linda Sillitoe | "Lullaby in the New Year" and "Demons" |
| 1981 | Short Fiction | Robert A. Christmas | "Another Angel" |
| 1982-1983 | Criticism | Eugene England | "The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 Years" |
| 1982-1983 | Drama | Thomas F. Rogers | God's Fools: Plays of the Mitigated Conscience |
| 1982-1983 | Editorial Award | Editors of the Exponent II | |
| 1982-1983 | Mormon Humor, First Prize | Calvin Grondahl | Freeway to Perfection, Faith Promoting Rumors, and Sunday's Foyer |
| 1982-1983 | Mormon Humor, Second Prize | Clifton Holt Jolley | Selling the Chevrolet: A Moral Exercise |
| 1982-1983 | Novel | Douglas H. Thayer | Summer Fire |
| 1982-1983 | Poetry | Clinton F. Larson | "Romaunt of the Rose: A Tapestry of Poems," BYU Studies, 23:1, 1983 |
| 1982-1983 | Poetry, Young Poet's Prize | Holly Ann Welker | "Feet," "Patience," "On My Father's 50th Birthday," and "The Birthday Present" |
| 1982-1983 | Sermon | Neal A. Maxwell | |
| 1982-1983 | Short Fiction | Levi S. Peterson | The Canyons of Grace |
| 1982-1983 | Special Award for Popular Mormon Fiction | Jack Weyland | |
| 1982-1983 | Special Award for Short Story Anthology | Levi S. Peterson | Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories |
| 1984 | Editing & Publishing | Scott Kenney | |
| 1984 | Novel | Orson Scott Card | A Woman of Destiny (Later republished as Saints) |
| 1984 | Personal Essay | Eugene England | "A Dialogue with Myself: Personal Essays on Mormon Experience" |
| 1984 | Special Award | Carol Lynn Pearson | |
| 1985 | Criticism | Steven Walker | "Seven Ways of Looking at Susanna" |
| 1985 | Novel | Herbert Harker | Circle of Fire |
| 1985 | Personal Essay | Edward Geary | Goodbye to Poplarhaven |
| 1985 | Poetry | Emma Lou Thayne | |
| 1985 | Short Fiction | Neal C. Chandler | "Benediction" |
| 1986 | Children's literature | Steve Wunderlie and Brent Watts (illus.) | Marty's World |
| 1986 | Novel | Levi Peterson | The Backslider |
| 1986 | Personal and family history book | Myrtle McDonald | No Regrets: The Life of Carl A. Carlquist |
| 1986 | Personal and family history essay | Paul M. Edwards | "When Will the Little Woman Come Out of the House?" |
| 1986 | Personal Essay | Susan Taber | "In Jeopardy Every Hour" |
| 1986 | Poetry | Dennis Marden Clark | "Sunwatch" |
| 1986 | Religious Literature | Dennis Rasmussen | The Lord’s Question |
| 1986 | Short Fiction | Michael Fillerup | "Hozhoogoo Nanina Doo" |
| 1987 | Criticism | Bruce W. Jorgensen | No Regrets: The Life of Carl A. Carlquist |
| 1987 | Novel | Linda Sillitoe | Sideways to the Sun |
| 1987 | Personal Essay | Mary Lythgoe Bradford | Leaving Home |
| 1987 | Poetry | Robert A. Christmas | "Self-Portrait as Brigham Young" |
| 1987 | Short Fiction | Darrell Spencer | Woman Packing a Pistol |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Elouise Bell | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Mary L. Bradford | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | John S. Harris | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Gerald N. Lund | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Hugh Nibley | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Levi S. Peterson | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Douglas Thayer | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Emma Lou Thayne | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Laurel T. Ulrich | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 1988 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | William A. Wilson | |
| 1988 | Novel | Ann Edwards Cannon | Cal Cameron by Day, Spider-Man by Night (Delacorte) |
| 1988 | Personal Essay | Karin Anderson England | "The Man at the Chapel" Dialogue 21.4 (Winter 1988): 133-41 |
| 1988 | Poetry | Dennis Marden Clark | Tinder: answer might be. With an almost Augustinian Dry Poems (Orem, Utah: United Order Books, 1988) |
| 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. |
| 1988 | Special Recognition in Biography | Levi S. Peterson | Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988) |
| 1988 | Special Recognition in Criticism | Wayne C. Booth | The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) |
| 1988 | 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) |
| 1989 | Criticism | Michael Hicks | Mormonism and Music: A History (University of Illinois Press) |
| 1989 | Editing & Publishing | Sunstone Magazine (Editors Scott Kenney, Allen Roberts, Peggy Fletcher, and Elbert Peck) | |
| 1989 | Editing & Publishing | Signature Books | |
| 1989 | Novel | Judith Freeman | The Chinchilla Farm (Norton) |
| 1989 | Personal Essay | Emma Lou Thayne | As for Me and My House (Bookcraft) |
| 1989 | Poetry | Susan Elizabeth Howe | "Things in the Night Sky" in Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems |
| 1989 | Short Fiction | Pauline Mortensen | Back Before the World Turned Nasty (University of Arkansas Press) |

## 1990s

AML Award winners, 1990-1999 :
| Year | Category | Author | Title |
| 1990 | Criticism | William A. Wilson | "In Praise of Ourselves: Stories to Tell" |
| 1990 | Novel | Franklin Fisher | Bones |
| 1990 | Personal Essay | Elouise Bell | Only When I Laugh |
| 1990 | Poetry | Loretta Randall Sharp | "Doing It" |
| 1990 | Short Fiction | Walter Kirn | My Hard Bargain |
| 1991 | Biography | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | A Midwife's Tale |
| 1991 | Editing & Publishing | Signature Books and Ron Schow, Wayne Schow, Marybeth Raynes (ed.) | Peculiar People: Mormons and Same-Sex Orientation |
| 1991 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Marden J. Clark | |
| 1991 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Edward L. Hart | |
| 1991 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Clinton F. Larson | |
| 1991 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | William Mulder | |
| 1991 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Helen Candland Stark | |
| 1991 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh | |
| 1991 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Maurine Whipple | |
| 1991 | Novel | Orson Scott Card | Xenocide |
| 1991 | Novel | Gerald N. Lund | Like a Fire is Burning |
| 1991 | Personal Essay | Terry Tempest Williams | Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place |
| 1991 | Poetry | Philip White | "Island Spring and the Perseids", in Dialogue, Spring & Winter 1991 |
| 1991 | Short Fiction | Michael Fillerup | "Lost and Found" from Christmas for the World |
| 1991 | Young Adult Literature | Louise Plummer | My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent |
| 1992 | Biography | Rudi Wobbe and Jerry Borrowman | Before the Blood Tribunal |
| 1992 | Children's Literature | Barbara J. Porter and Dileen Marsh | All Kinds of Answers |
| 1992 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Richard Scowcroft | |
| 1992 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Emma Lou Thayne | |
| 1992 | Novel | Orson Scott Card | Lost Boys |
| 1992 | Personal Essay | Marden J. Clark | Liberating Form: Mormon Essays on Religion and Literature |
| 1992 | Poetry | Kathy Evans | "Imagination Comes to Breakfast" |
| 1992 | Short Fiction | Margaret Blair Young | Elegies and Love Songs |
| 1993 | Autobiography | Phyllis Barber | How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir |
| 1993 | Award for Editorial Excellence | M. Shayne Bell | Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor |
| 1993 | Children's Literature | Michael O. Tunnell | Chinook! The Joke's on George and Beauty and the Beastly Children |
| 1993 | Drama | Neil LaBute | In the Company of Men |
| 1993 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Wayne C. Booth | |
| 1993 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Steven P. Sondrup | |
| 1993 | Novel | Leslie Beaton Hedley | Twelve Sisters |
| 1993 | Novel | Gerald N. Lund | Thy Gold to Refine: The Work and the Glory, Vol. 4 |
| 1993 | Personal Essay | Eugene England | "Monte Cristo" in Wasatch Review International, 2:1, June 1993. |
| 1993 | Poetry | Linda Sillitoe | Crazy for Living |
| 1993 | Sermon | Chieko N. Okazaki | Lighten Up! and Cat's Cradle |
| 1993 | Service to Mormon Letters | Neila Seshachari and Weber State University | Weber Studies, Vol. 10.3, Tenth Anniversary Issue |
| 1993 | Short Story | Darrell Spencer | Our Secret's Out |
| 1993 | 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 |
| 1994 | Criticism | Gideon O. Burton | "Towards a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask 'Is This Mormon Literature?'" |
| 1994 | Drama | Eric Samuelsen | Accommodations: a Play in Three Acts |
| 1994 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Samuel W. Taylor | |
| 1994 | Novel | Anne Perry | The Sins of the Wolf |
| 1994 | Personal Essay | Richard D. Poll | "A Liahona Latter-day Saint" |
| 1994 | Poetry | Pamela Porter Hamblin | "Magi" |
| 1994 | Short Fiction | Wayne Jorgensen | "Who Tarzan, Who Jane" |
| 1994 | Young Adult Literature | Dean Hughes | The Trophy |
| 1995 | Biography | Maureen Ursenbach Beecher | The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow |
| 1995 | Criticism | Michael Austin | How to Be a Mormo-American; Or, The Function of Mormon Criticism at the Present Time |
| 1995 | Drama | Tim Slover | March Tale |
| 1995 | Essay | Terry Tempest Williams | Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape |
| 1995 | Novel | Mack Hedges | Last Buckaroo |
| 1995 | Poetry | Marden J. Clark | "Snows" |
| 1995 | Short Fiction | Tory C. Anderson | "Epiphany" |
| 1995 | Young Adult Literature | Louise Plummer | The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman |
| 1996 | Biography | Marian Robertson Wilson | Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies |
| 1996 | Children's Literature | Rick Walton | You Don't Always Get What You Hope For |
| 1996 | 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)" |
| 1996 | Drama | Tim Slover | Joyful Noise |
| 1996 | Novel | Judith Freeman | A Desert of Pure Feeling |
| 1996 | Personal Essay | Kenneth O. Kemp | "3/4-inch Marine Ply" |
| 1996 | Poetry | Leslie Norris | Collected Poems |
| 1996 | Short Fiction | Paul Rawlins | No Lie Like Love: Stories |
| 1996 | Young Adult Literature | Pat Bezzant | Angie |
| 1997 | Criticism | Richard Dilworth Rust | Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon |
| 1997 | Devotional Literature | Chieko N. Okazaki | Sanctuary |
| 1997 | Drama | Eric Samuelsen | Gadianton |
| 1997 | Personal Essay | Holly Welker | "What You Walk Away From" |
| 1997 | Poetry | Susan Elizabeth Howe | Stone Spirits |
| 1997 | Short Fiction | Brady Udall | Beautiful Places |
| 1998 | Devotional Literature | Clark L. Kidd and Kathryn H. Kidd | A Convert's Guide to Mormon Life |
| 1998 | Novel | Dean Hughes | Far from Home |
| 1998 | Personal Essay | Tom Plummer | Eating Chocolates and Dancing in the Kitchen: Sketches of Marriage and Family |
| 1998 | Poetry | Alex Caldiero | Various Atmospheres: Poems and Drawings |
| 1998 | Short Fiction | Helen Walker Jones | The Six-Buck Fortune |
| 1998 | Young Adult Literature | Martine Bates | The Taker's Key |
| 1999 | Devotional Literature | Neal A. Maxwell | One More Strain of Praise |
| 1999 | Drama | Eric Samuelsen | The Way We're Wired |
| 1999 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award | Jack Harrell | Every Knee Shall Bow (published in 2003 as Vernal Promises) |
| 1999 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention | Laura Dene Card | The Wildest Waste |
| 1999 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention | Alan Rex Mitchell | Barry Monroe’s Missionary Journal |
| 1999 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention | Dorothy W. Peterson | Windows |
| 1999 | Novel | Anne Perry | Tathea |
| 1999 | Personal Essay | Martha Beck | Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic |
| 1999 | Short Fiction | Mary Clyde | Survival Rates |

## 2000s

AML Award winners, 2000-2009 :
| Year | Category | Author | Title |
| 2000 | Criticism | Benson Parkinson | AML-List |
| 2000 | Devotional Literature | Patricia Terry Holland | A Quiet Heart |
| 2000 | Drama | Margaret Blair Young | I Am Jane |
| 2000 | Film | Richard Dutcher | God's Army |
| 2000 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Richard Cracroft | |
| 2000 | Novel | Margaret Blair Young and Darius Gray | One More River to Cross |
| 2000 | Personal Essay | Gordon B. Hinckley | Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes |
| 2000 | 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 |
| 2001 | Drama | J. Scott Bronson | Stones |
| 2001 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Thomas F. Rogers | |
| 2001 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award | A. Jeff Call | Mormonville |
| 2001 | Middle Grade Literature | Carol Lynch Williams | My Angelica |
| 2001 | Novel | Brady Udall | The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint |
| 2001 | Review | Jeffrey Needle | |
| 2001 | Young Adult Literature | Louise Plummer | A Dance for Three |
| 2002 | Drama | Reed McColm | Hole in the Sky |
| 2002 | Drama Honorable Mention | Melissa Leilani Larson | Wake Me When It's Over |
| 2002 | Drama Honorable Mention | Tim Slover | Hancock County |
| 2002 | Film | Christian Vuissa | Roots and Wings |
| 2002 | Film Adaptation | Janine Whetton Gilbert | Charly |
| 2002 | Film Honorable Mention | Andrew Black | The Snell Show |
| 2002 | Film Honorable Mention | Ryan Little | Out of Step |
| 2002 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Lavina Fielding Anderson | |
| 2002 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | Bruce Wayne Jorgensen | |
| 2002 | In Memoriam | Neila Seshachari | |
| 2002 | Novel | Chris Crowe | Mississippi Trial, 1955 |
| 2002 | Picture Book | Rick Walton | Bertie Was a Watchdog |
| 2002 | Poetry | Kimberly Johnson | Leviathan with a Hook |
| 2002 | Short Fiction | Susan Palmer | "Breakthrough" in Sunstone, issue 122, pages 42-45, April 2002. |
| 2002 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Linda Paulson Adams | "First" |
| 2002 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Karen Rosenbaum | "Out of the Woods" |
| 2002 | Young Adult Literature | Ann Edwards Cannon | Charlotte's Rose |
| 2002 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Kimberley Heuston | The Shakeress |
| 2002 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Martine Leavitt | The Dollmage |
| 2003 | Drama | LeeAnne Hill Adams | Archipelago |
| 2003 | Editing | Chris Bigelow | Irreantum |
| 2003 | Film Adaptation | Anne K. Black, Jason Faller, and Katherine Swigert | Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy |
| 2003 | Historical Fiction | Margaret Blair Young and Darius Gray | Standing on the Promises |
| 2003 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award | Janean Justham | House Dreams |
| 2003 | Novel | Douglas Thayer | The Conversion of Jeff Williams |
| 2003 | Publishing | BYU Studies Quarterly | |
| 2003 | Short Fiction | Coke Newell | "Toaster Road" |
| 2003 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | William Shunn | "The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain" |
| 2003 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Robert Wagoner | "A Good Sign" |
| 2003 | Young Adult Literature | Kimberley Heuston | Dante's Daughter |
| 2003 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Shannon Hale | The Goose Girl |
| 2003 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Kristen Randle | Slumming |
| 2004 | Criticism | Meridian Magazine | |
| 2004 | Film | Adam Abel | Saints and Soldiers |
| 2004 | Middle Grade Literature | Patricia Wiles | My Mom's a Mortician |
| 2004 | Middle Grade Literature Honorable Mention | Randall Wright | Hunchback |
| 2004 | Novel | P. G. Karamesines | The Pictograph Murders |
| 2004 | Novel Honorable Mention | Amber Esplin | Leaving Eden |
| 2004 | Poetry | John Talbot | The Well-Tempered Tantrum |
| 2004 | Special Award Honorable Mention | The J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah | |
| 2004 | Young Adult Literature | Shannon Hale | Enna Burning |
| 2004 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Mette Ivie Harrison | Mira, Mirror |
| 2004 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Janette Rallison | Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws |
| 2005 | Biography | Richard Lyman Bushman | Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling |
| 2005 | Criticism | William Morris, P. G. Karamesines, Kent Larsen, and Eric Russell | A Motley Vision |
| 2005 | Film | Greg Whiteley | New York Doll |
| 2005 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award | Arianne B. Cope | The Coming of Elijah |
| 2005 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention | Donald Marshall | Seeker |
| 2005 | Novel | Brandon Sanderson | Elantris |
| 2005 | Novel Honorable Mention | Orson Scott Card | Magic Street |
| 2005 | Novel Honorable Mention | Roger Terry | God's Executioner |
| 2005 | Poetry | Lance Larsen | In All Their Animal Brilliance |
| 2005 | Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters | Dean Hughes | Children of the Promise |
| 2005 | Special Award | Allred Laura | The Golden Plates |
| 2005 | Young Adult Literature | Shannon Hale | Princess Academy |
| 2005 | Young Adult Literature | Patricia Wiles | Funeral Home Evenings |
| 2005 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | David Farland | Of Mice and Magic, Ravenspell Book One |
| 2005 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Dean Hughes | Search and Destroy |
| 2006 | Criticism | Patricia Karamesines | The Rhetoric of Stealing God |
| 2006 | Drama | Tim Slover | Treasure |
| 2006 | Film | Annie Poon | The Book of Visions |
| 2006 | Film Honorable Mention | Melissa Puente | Sisterz in Zion |
| 2006 | Film Honorable Mention | Tom Russell | Angie |
| 2006 | Novel | Toni Sorensen Brown | Redemption Road |
| 2006 | Novel Honorable Mention | Orson Scott Card | Empire |
| 2006 | Novel Honorable Mention | Brandon Sanderson | Mistborn |
| 2006 | Personal Essay | John Bennion | "Like the Lilies of the Field" |
| 2006 | Personal Essay Honorable Mention | Wilfried Decoo | "The Unspeakable" |
| 2006 | Personal Essay Honorable Mention | Patricia Karamesines | "The Birds of Summer" |
| 2006 | Service to AML | Angela Hallstrom | |
| 2006 | Short Fiction | Kristen Carson | "Atta Boy" |
| 2006 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Virginia Baker | "And Cry the Name of David" |
| 2006 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Heather Marx | "Brother Singh" |
| 2006 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Aaron Orullian | "Judgement Day" |
| 2006 | Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters | Rick Walton | |
| 2006 | Special Award | James V. D'Arc, Blaine L. Gale, E. Hunter Hale, and Richard I. Hale | Trapped By the Mormons |
| 2006 | Young Adult Literature | Brandon Mull | Fablehaven |
| 2006 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Shannon Hale | River Secrets |
| 2006 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | 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 |
| 2007 | Criticism | Terryl L. Givens | People of Paradox: The History of Mormon Culture |
| 2007 | Drama | Carol Pearson | Facing East |
| 2007 | Film | Helen Whitney | The Mormons |
| 2007 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award | Todd Petersen | Rift |
| 2007 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention | Helynne Hollstein Hansen | Voices at the Crossroads |
| 2007 | Marilyn Brown Novel Award Honorable Mention | Janet Kay Jensen | Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys |
| 2007 | Novel | Coke Newell | On the Road to Heaven |
| 2007 | Novel Finalists | Shannon Hale | Austenland |
| 2007 | Novel Finalists | Dean Hughes | Before the Dawn |
| 2007 | Novel Finalists | Brandon Sanderson | The Well of Ascension |
| 2007 | Novel Finalists | Donald Smurthwaite | The Boxmaker's Son |
| 2007 | Novel Finalists | Roger Terry | I Am Not Wolf |
| 2007 | Novel Finalists | Alissa York | Effigy |
| 2007 | Novel Honorable Mention | Dean Hughes | Before the Dawn |
| 2007 | Novel Honorable Mention | Brandon Sanderson | The Well of Ascension |
| 2007 | Short Fiction | Lisa Torcasso Downing | "Clothing Esther" |
| 2007 | Short Fiction Finalists | Larry Menlove | "Drought", Dialogue 40:3 (Fall 2007) |
| 2007 | Short Fiction Finalists | Johnny Townsend | "The Buzzard Tree", Dialogue 40:4 (Winter 2007) |
| 2007 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Darin Cozzens | "Light of the New Day" |
| 2007 | Short Fiction Honorable Mention | Sigrid Olsen | "The Nature of Comets" |
| 2007 | Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters | Anne Perry | |
| 2007 | Special Award | Segullah | |
| 2007 | Special Award Honorable Mention | Gideon Burton | Mormons and Film |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature | Ann Dee Ellis | This Is What I Did |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature Finalists | Olivia Birdsall | Notes on a Near-Life Experience |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature Finalists | Jessica Day George | Dragon Slippers |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature Finalists | Shannon Hale | Book of a Thousand Days |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature Finalists | Brandon Mull | Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature Finalists | Louise Plummer | Finding Daddy |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Mette Ivie Harrison | The Princess and the Hound |
| 2007 | Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention | Brandon Sanderson | Alcatraz Vs. the Evil Librarians |
| 2008 | Drama | James Goldberg | Prodigal Son |
| 2008 | Film | Christian Vuissa | The Errand of Angels |
| 2008 | Film | Ron Williams | Happy Valley |
| 2008 | Lifetime AML Membership | Terryl L. Givens | |
| 2008 | Novel | Angela Hallstrom | Bound on Earth |
| 2008 | Personal Essay | Stephen Carter | "The Calling" |
| 2008 | Personal Essay | Patrick Madden | "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart" |
| 2008 | Poetry | Neil Aitken | The Lost Country of Sight |
| 2008 | Poetry | Warren Hatch | Mapping the Bones of the World |
| 2008 | Short Fiction | Stephen Tuttle | "Amanuensis" |
| 2008 | Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters | Douglas Thayer | |
| 2008 | Special Award in Criticism | Alan F. Keele | |
| 2008 | Special Award in History | Richard Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard, and Ronald W. Walker | Massacre at Mountain Meadows |
| 2008 | 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 1832-1839 |
| 2008 | Youth Fiction | Brandon Mull | Fablehaven: The Grip of the Shadow Plague |
| 2009 | Drama | Melissa Leilani Larson | Little Happy Secrets |
| 2009 | Film | Jed Wells | Fire Creek |
| 2009 | Honorary Lifetime Membership | James D'Arc | |
| 2009 | Humor | Elna Baker | The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance |
| 2009 | Memoir | Kathryn Soper | The Year My Son and I Were Born |
| 2009 | Novel | Todd Petersen | Rift |
| 2009 | Novel Honorable Mention | Jamie Ford | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet |
| 2009 | Online Writing | Sandra Tayler | One Cobble at a Time |
| 2009 | Poetry | Lance Larsen | Backyard Alchemy |
| 2009 | Publishing | Christopher Bigelow | Zarahemla Books |
| 2009 | Service to AML | Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury | |
| 2009 | Short Fiction | Larry Menlove | "Path of Antelope, Pelican, and Moon" |
| 2009 | Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters | Levi Peterson | |
| 2009 | Young Adult Literature | Carol Lynch Williams | The Chosen One |

## 2010
### Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

   * Richard Cracroft

### 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 and Other Stories

### Young Adult Literature

   * Ally Condie for Matched

## 2011
### Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

   * Marilyn Brown

### Honorary Lifetime Membership

   * Gideon Burton

### 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, 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

   * Doug Thayer for Wasatch: Mormon Stories and a Novella

### 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

## 2012
### Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

   * Eric Samuelsen

### Lifetime AML Membership

   * Mahonri Stewart
   * Christopher Bigelow

### Film

   * Redemption, directed by Thomas Russell

### Novel

   * The Five Books of Jesus by James Goldberg

### Devotional

   * The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life by Terryl and Fiona Givens

### Poetry

   * Amytis Leaves Her Garden by Karen Kelsay

### Award in Adaptation

   * The Street-Legal Version of Mormon’s Book by Michael Hicks

### 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)

## 2013

Given out April 12, 2014.

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

   * Charlotte Hawkins England

### Outstanding Achievement Award

   * Dean Hughes

### Creative non-fiction

   * Melissa Dalton-Bradford for Global Mom: Eight Countries, Sixteen Addresses, Five Languages, One Family

### Drama

   * Ariel Mitchell for A Second Birth

### Film

   * Garrett Batty for The Saratov Approach

### Special Award

   * Scott Hales for The Garden of Enid

### Novel

   * Sarah Eden Longing for Home

### Poetry

   * Alex Caldiero sonosuono (awarded on March 28, 2015)
       Other finalists
      * Susan Elizabeth Howe Salt
      * Lance Larsen Genius Loci

### 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

   * Brandon Sanderson for The Rithmatist

## 2014

Presented March 28, 2015, at the Utah Valley University Library.

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

   * Margaret Blair Young

### AML Lifetime Achievement Award

   * Lance Larsen
   * Karen Rosenbaum

### Comics

   * iPlates, Volume 2: Prophets, Priests, Rebels, and Kings by Stephen Carter and Jett Atwood

### Creative non-fiction

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

### Criticism

   * Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, editor
       Other finalists
      * “Of Many Hearts and Many Minds: The Mormon Novel and the Post-Utopian Challenge of Assimilation” by Scott Hales. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati
      * “Toward a Mormon Literary Theory” by Jack Harrell. BYU Studies Quarterly 53.3, 2014

### Drama

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

### Film

   * Saints and Soldiers: The Void, Ryan Little, director
       Other finalists
      * Inspired Guns, Adam White, director
      * The Last Straw, Rob Diamond, director
      * Meet the Mormons, Blair Treu, director
      * Mitt, Greg Whiteley, director

### Middle Grade Novel

   * The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
      * Honorable Mention: The End or Something Like That by Ann Dee Ellis
       Other finalists
      * Almost Super by Marion Jensen
      * Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little
      * Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull

### Novel

   * City of Brick and Shadow by Tim Wirkus
      * Honorable Mention: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
       Other finalists
      * A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray
      * The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison
      * The Thieves of Summer by Linda Sillitoe

### Picture Book

   * Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, illustrated by Kathleen Peterson
      * Honorable Mention: The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
       Other finalists
      * Fetch by Adam Glendon Sidwell, illustrated by Edwin Rhemrev
      * The World According to Musk Ox by Erin Cabatingan, illustrated by Matthew Myers
      * The Tooth Fairy Wars by Kate Coombs, illustrated by Jake Parker

### Poetry

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

### Religious Non-Fiction

   * Re-Reading Job: Understanding the Ancient World’s Greatest Poem by Michael Austin
       Other finalists
      * Seeking the Promised Land by David E. Campbell, John C. Green, and J. Quin Monson. Cambridge University Press
      * Wresting the Angel by Terryl Givens

### 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

   * Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe
       Other finalists
      * Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little
      * On the Fence by Kasie West
      * Signed, Skye Harper by Carol Lynch Williams
      * Stronger than You Know by Jolene Perry

### Young Adult Speculative Novel

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

## 2015

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

### 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
       Other finalists
      * 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
       Other finalists
      * 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
       Other finalists
      * Nephi Anderson's Dorian: A Peculiar Edition With Annotated Text & Scholarship edited by Eric W. Jepson

### Drama

   * Pilot Program by Melissa Leilani Larson
       Other finalists
      * A/Version of Events by Matthew Ivan Bennett
      * Princess Academy by Lisa Hall Hagen, adapted from Shannon Hale

### Film

   * Peace Officer, by Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber
       Other finalists
      * Christmas Eve, by Mitch Davis
      * Freetown, by Garrett Batty
      * Just Let Go, by Christopher S. Clark and Patrick Henry Parker
      * Once I Was a Beehive, by Maclain Nelson

### Lyrics

   * The Desired Effect from Brandon Flowers
       Other finalists
      * 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
       Other finalists
      * 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
       Other finalists
      * 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
       Other finalists
      * 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
       Other finalists
      * 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
    Other finalists
      * 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 (Bellevue Literary Review)
       Other finalists
      * "The Naked Woman" by Theric Jepson (Pulp Literature)
      * "Absolute Zero" by Scott Parkin (1st & Starlight)
      * "An Immense Darkness" by Eric James Stone (Analog Science Fiction and Fact)

### Short-Story Collection

   * Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives by Karen Rosenbaum
       Other finalists
      * 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
       Other finalists
      * Shutter by Courtney Alameda
      * Ink and Ashes by Valynne Maetani
      * Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
      * Fish Out of Water by Natalie Whipple

## 2016

Presented at Utah Valley University, April 22, 2017.

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

   * Orson Scott Card

### AML Lifetime Achievement Award

   * Susan Elizabeth Howe

### Comics

   * Precious Rascals by Anthony Holden
       Other finalists
      * Mormon Shorts, Vol. 1 by Scott Hales
      * White Sand by Brandon Sanderson (story), Rik Hoskin (script), Julius Gopez (art), and Ross Campbell (colors)

### Creative Non-fiction

   * Sublime Physick by Patrick Madden
       Honorable Mention
      * Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex and Marriage edited by Holly Welker
       Other finalists
      * Immortal for Quite Some Time by Scott Abbott
      * The 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 Harrell

### Drama

   * Burn by Morag Shepherd
       Other finalists
      * Gregorian by Matthew Greene
      * Kingdom of Heaven by Jenifer Nii
      * The King’s Men by Javen Tanner

### Film

   * The Split House by Annie Poon
       Other finalists
      * Masterminds by Jared Hess
      * The Next Door by Barrett Burgin
      * Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made by Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen
      * Saturday's Warrior by Michael Buster

### Middle Grade Novel

   * Summerlost by Ally Condie
       Other finalists
      * The Kidnap Plot: The Incredible Adventures of Clockwork Charlie by Dave Butler
      * Cinnamon Moon by Tess Hilmo
      * Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff

### Novel

   * Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells
       Other finalists
      * Slave Queen by Heather. B. Moore
      * Pigs When they Straddle the Air by Julie J. Nichols
      * Daredevils by Shawn Vestal

### Picture Book

   * Our Heavenly Family, Our Earthly Families by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding. Illustrated by Caitlin Connolly
       Other finalists
      * What Would It Be Like by McArthur Krishna, Illustrated by Ayeshe Sadr & Ishaan Dasgupta
      * She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero by Loki Mulholland and Angela Fairwell. Illustrated by Charlotte Janssen
      * Defenders of the Family by Benjamin Hyrum White. Illustrated by Jay Fontana

### Poetry

   * Strange Terrain by Matthew James Babcock
       Other finalists
      * Leviathan by Neil Aitken
      * flicker by Lisa Bickmore
      * Who 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. Smith
       Other finalists
      * Nothing 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 Adams

### Short 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 Cozzens
       Other finalists
      * Invisible Men by Eric Freeze
      * Windows into Hell by various authors, edited by James Wymore

### Video Series

   * Last Chance U Greg Whiteley, director
       Other finalists
      * Adam & Eve Davey & Bianca Morrison Dillard, directors
      * Studio C Jared Shores and Matt Meese, co-creators
      * The Talking Fly Steve Olpin, director

### Young Adult Novel

   * The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
       Other finalists
      * The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
      * And I Darken by Kiersten White

## 2017

The final winners were presented March 23, 2018.

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

   * Lavina Fielding Anderson

### AML Lifetime Achievement Award

   * Robert Kirby

### Novel

   * Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats by Steven L. Peck (Roundfire Books)
      * 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

   * "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

   * That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith and Family by Tom Christofferson
      * Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion by George B. Handley
      * The Burning Point by Tracy McKay
      * Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet by Brooke Williams
          Notable mentions
         * Heterodoxologies: Essays by Matthew James Babcock
         * The OCD Mormon: Finding healing and hope in the midst of anxiety by Kari Ferguson
         * Do Clouds Rest? Dementiadventures with Mom by Michael Hicks

### Religious nonfiction

   * What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction by Patrick Q. Mason
      * 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 Ericson

### Middle-grade novel

   * You May Already Be A Winner by Ann Dee Ellis (Dial Books for Young Readers)
      * 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

   * Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner (Crown Books for Young Readers)
      * Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George (Greenwilow Books)
      * The Duke of Bannerman Prep by Katie A. Nelson (Sky Pony Press)
      * Last Star Burning by Caitlin Sangster (Simon Pulse)
      * Now I Rise by Kiersten White (Delacorte Press)

### Comics

   * Real Friends by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham
      * Batman ’66 / Legion of Super Heroes #1 (DC Comics) by Lee Allred, Michael Allred, Laura Allred
      * The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Vol. 2. by Scott Hales
      * Comic Diaries by Brittany Long Olsen
      * Necropolis by Jake Wyatt and Kathryn Wyatt

### Picture book

   * Colour Blocked by Ashley Sorenson and David W. Miles
      * Heroic Stories from The Book of Mormon by Shauna Gibby and Casey Nelson
      * Quiet as a Church Mouse by Stephen Bevan and Jeff Harvey

### Drama

   * Virtue by Tim Slover
      * The Drown’ed Book, or the History of William Shakespeare, Part Last by Mahonri Stewart
      * Not One Drop by Morag Shepherd

### Film

   * Socorro written and directed by Marshal Davis
      * The Man in the Camo Jacket written and directed by Russ Kendall
      * Out of the Ground written and directed by Barrett Burgin
      * A Pug & Wolf Christmas created by Davey and Bianca Morrison Dillard
      * We Love You, Sally Carmichael! written by Daryn Tufts and directed by Christopher Gorham

### Criticism

   * “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 Chadwick

### Anthology

   * Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death edited by Stephen Carter
      * Seasons of Change: Stories of Transition from the Writers of Segullah edited by Shelah Mastny Miner and Sandra Clark Jergensen
      * States of Deseret edited by Wm Morris

### Poetry

   * Mother's Milk by Rachel Hunt Steenblik
      * Babbage’s Dream by Neil Aitken
      * What Was Left of the Stars by Claire Åkebrand
      * Ephemerist by Lisa Bickmore
      * Owning the Moon by Linda Sillitoe

### Special Award in Religious Non-Fiction Publishing

   * Proceedings of the Mormon Theology Seminar, published by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship’s Mormon Theology Seminar, Adam S. Miller, director

## 2018

The final winners were presented March 30, 2019, in Berkeley, California.

### AML Lifetime Achievement Award

   * Carol Lynn Pearson

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

   * Melissa Leilani Larson

### Special Award in Publishing

   * Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry edited by Tyler Chadwick, Dayna Patterson, Martin Pulido (Peculiar Pages)

### Novel

   * Witchy Winter by D. J. Butler (Baen Books)
      * The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner by Jennifer Quist (Linda Leith Publishing)
      * The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus (Penguin Press)

### Short-fiction collections

   * 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

   * "Thin Walls" by Alison Maeser Brimley (Western Humanities Review)
      * "All Light and Darkness" by Amy Henrie Gillett (Writers of the Future)
      * "Tower" by Ryan McIlvain (Sunstone)
      * "Light Departure" by Ryan Shoemaker (Dialogue)

### Drama

   * Good Standing by Matthew Greene
      * The Shower Principle by Ariel Mitchell

### Poetry

   * 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

   * Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save my Children by Wallace Jeffs, Shauna Packer, Sherry Taylor
      * Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
      * How the Light Gets In by Keira Shae

### Religious nonfiction

   * An Early Resurrection: Life in Christ Before you Die by Adam S. Miller
      * Faith Is Not Blind by Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen
      * Thou 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. Griffin
      * The 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 Strickling

### Criticism

   * 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 Larsen

### Comics

   * One Dirty Tree by Noah Van Sciver (Uncivilized Books)
      * 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 Perkins

### Documentary film

   * Church & State
      * Believer
      * The Insufferable Groo
      * States of America

### Narrative film

   * When She Runs
      * Jane and Emma
      * Long Haul
      * Passenger Seat

### Picture book

   * The Dress and the Girl by Camille Andros and Julie Morstad (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
      * 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

   * Squint by Chad Morris and Shelley Brown (Shadow Mountain)
      * Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy Baldwin (Harper)
      * Wishes and Wellingtons by Julie Berry (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
      * Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic Press)
      * Grump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Liesl Shurtliff (Alfred A. Knopf)

### Young-adult novel

   * The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (Delacorte Press)
      * Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller (Feiwel and Friends)
      * The Traitor’s Game by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic Press)
      * Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (Delacorte Press)

## 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.

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

   * James Arrington

### Lifetime Achievement Award

   * R. A. Christmas

### Special awards

    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

   * Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide by Dean Hughes (Deseret Book)
      * 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

   * "Next of Kin" by Karen Rosenbaum (Irreantum)
      * "You Can Give Him a Kiss" by Alison Maeser Brimley (Sunstone)
      * "My Father’s Liahona" by Danny Nelson (In Press Forward Saints: A Mormon Steampunk Anthology)
      * "Bode and Iris" by Levi Peterson (Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought)

### Young-adult novel

   * Lovely War by Julie Berry (Viking Press)
      * 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

   * Words on Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic)
      * 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

   * Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Extraordinary Women from Church History by McArthur Krishna, Bethany Brady Spalding, Kathleen Peterson (Deseret Book)
      * From a Small Seed: the Story of Eliza Hamilton by Camille Andros and Tessa Blackham (Henry Holt)
      * If Monet Painted a Monster by Amy Newbold and Greg Newbold (Tilbury House Publishers)
      * Lola Dutch: When I Grow Up by Kenneth Wright and Sarah Jane Wright (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)

### Drama

   * Project X by Taylor Hatch
      * Tales of Tila by Carolyn Chatwin Murset
      * Bitter Lemon by Melissa Leilani Larson

### Narrative feature films

   * The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith directed by Mitch Davis
      * The Fighting Preacher directed by T.C. Christensen
      * Out of Liberty directed by Garrett Batty

### Documentary feature films

   * Jimmer: The Lonely Master directed by Scott Christopherson
      * After Selma directed by Loki Mulholland
      * The Jets: Making it Real directed by Kels Goodman

### Short film

   * "Father of Man" directed by Barrett Burgin
      * "Paper Trails" directed by Heather Moser
      * "Stickup Kid" directed by Daniel Tu
      * "Man and Kin" directed by Max Johnson

### Poetry

   * Homespun and Angel Feathers by Darlene Young (BCC Press)
      * 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

   * "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)
      * "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

   * Crossings: A Bald Asian-American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar’s Ventures through Life, Death, Cancer, & and Motherhood by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (Deseret Book/Maxwell Institute)
      * 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

   * A Place to Belong: Reflections from Modern Latter-day Saint Women edited by Hollie Rhees Fluhman and Camille Fronk Olson (Deseret Book)
      * 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

   * That’s One Small Step for a Mom, One Giant Leap for Missionarykind by Kevin Beckstrom (self-published)
      * Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive by Michael Allred, Lee Allred, Rich Tommaso, Laura Allred (IDW Publishing)
      * Best Friends by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham (First Second)
      * Super Elders & the Rise of Legion by Matt Vroom (self-published)

## 2020

The final winners were presented June 5, 2021, as part of an online-only conference, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

### Lifetime Achievement

   * John Serge Bennion

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

   * Steven L. Peck

### Special Award in Religious Nonfiction

   * 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

   * This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions (University of Utah Press)
       Editors: Carol Edison, Eric A. Eliason, Lynne S McNeill

### Novel

      * Bountiful by Charity Shumway (BCC Press)
    Other finalists:
   * The Desert Between Us by Phyllis Barber (University of Nevada Press)
   * 116 by Rick Grunder (BookBaby)
   * Sylvia by Twila Newey (BCC Press)
   * A New Age of Miracles by Mahonri Stewart (Prospero Arts and Media)

### Short story

      * "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

      * 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:
   * The Humans in the Walls and Other Stories by Eric James Stone (WordFire Press)

### Poetry

      * If Mother Braids a Waterfall by Dayna Patterson (Signature Books)
    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

      * Lies of the Magpie: A Memoir by Maleah Day Warner (Author Academy Elite)
    Other finalists:
   * Disparates by Patrick Madden (University of Nebraska Press)
   * Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy by Caitlin Myer (Arcade)

### Religious nonfiction

      * 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

      * Clogs and Shawls: Mormons, Moorlands, and the Search for Zion by Ann Chamberlin, narrated by Jacqueline de Boer
    Other finalists:
   * Witchy War Series (Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter, Witchy Kingdom) by D. J. Butler, narrated by Courtney Patterson
   * Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier by Benjamin Park, narrated by Bob Souer
   * The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, volume 1 by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemmings, narrated by Margaret Olsen Hemmings
   * Church 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

      * Dialogue Book Report from Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, hosted by Andrew Hall
    Other finalists:
   * The Center’s Studio Podcast from the Center for Latter-day Arts, hosted by Glen Nelson
   * Mattathias Reads the World, hosted by Mattathias Westwood
   * Unfinished: Short Creek, part of Witness Docs from Stitcher, hosted by Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre

### Picture book

      * Nonsense: The Curious Story of Edward Gorey by Lori Mortensen and Chloe Bristol (HMH Books for Young Readers)
    Other finalists:
   * You’ll Find Me by Amanda Rawson Hill and Joanne Le-Vriethoff. (Magination Press)
   * I’ll Walk with You by Carol Lynn Pearson and Jane Sanders (Gibbs Smith)
   * All Aboard the Moonlight Train by Kristyn Crow and Annie Won (Doubleday Books for Young Readers)

### Middle-grade novel

      * 96 Miles by J. L. Esplin (Starscape/Tor Teen)
    Other finalists:
   * What Stars are Made Of by Sarah Allen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
   * Beginners Welcome by Cindy Baldwin (HarperCollins)
   * On these Magic Shores by Yamile Saied Mendez (Tu)
   * The Elephant’s Girl by Celesta Rimington (Crown Books for Young Readers)

### Young-adult novel

      * Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez (Algonquin Young Readers)
    Other finalists:
   * Chasing Starlight by Teri Bailey Black (Tor Teen)
   * Displaced by Dean Hughes (Atheneum Books)
   * The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller (Feiwel and Friends)
   * One Way or Another by Kara McDowell (Scholastic)

### Comics

      * Future Day Saints: Welcome to New Zion by Matt Page
    Other finalists:
   * Everything Is Going to Be Okay by Dani Jones
   * Pillar of Light: Joseph Smith’s First Vision by Andrew G. Knaupp and Sal Velluto
   * Magic in the Valley: The Story of Moira Green, Witch by Brittany Long Olsen

### Criticism

      * "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

      * Mountain Law by Melissa Leilani Larson (Women’s Voices Play Festival, Orlando)
    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

      * Heart of Africa written by Tshoper Kabambi and Margaret Blair Young, directed Tshoper Kabambi
    Other finalist:
   * Gruff written and directed by Kohl Glass

## 2021

The winners were announced July 23, 2022, at the AML Conference. For the fiction awards, the addition 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.

### AML Lifetime Achievement Award

   * Michael Austin

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

   * Darlene Young

### Special award in fiction

    Estampas del Libro de Mormón by Gabriel González Núñez

### Special award in nonfiction

Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal by Kristine L. Haglund (University of Illinois Press)

### Novel

    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

    "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
       "The Wall" by Spencer Hyde (Image)

### Young Adult Novel

    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

    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

    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

    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

    REDEEMHer: How I Screwed up my perfect Mormon life by Tatum Langton
       The King Stag by Janine Sobeck Knighton
       Gin Mummy by Melissa Leilani Larson
       1820: The Musical (book: George Nelson; music and lyrics: Kayliann Lowe Juarez, Doug Lowe, and Kendra Lowe)

### Poetry

    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

    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 Angelovic
       Sunstone Mormon History (Sunstone Education Foundation)

### Comics

    Friends Forever by Shannon Hale (illustrated by Leuyen Pham) (First Second)
       Future Day Saints: The Gnomlaumite Crystal by Matt Page
       The Glass Looker: Collected Tales of Joseph Smith by Mark Elwood

### Criticism

    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

    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

    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

    Fragility by Christian Asplund
       Therapy Sessions by David Archuleta
       A Fish of Earth by Emily Brown
       Pressure Machine by The Killers
       Strangest Congregations by Andrew Wiscombe

## 2022

Award winners were announced April 29, 2023 at a virtual conference.

### AML Lifetime Achievement Award

       Michael Hicks

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

       Stephen R. Carter

### Novel

    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

    "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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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)

    "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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

## 2023

The 2023 awards finalists and winners can be found here: https://www.associationmormonletters.org/2024/08/2023-aml-award-winners/