The Association for Mormon Letters is happy to announce the finalists for the 2014 Association for Mormon Letters Awards. The award winners will be announced at the AML Conference on March 28, 1:00-5:00PM, at the Utah Valley University Library.
The AML Awards have been presented annually since 1977. You can see the list of past awards here.
Creative Non-Fiction
 To the Mountain: One Mormon Woman’s Search for Spirit, by Phyllis Barber. Quest Books |
 Hemingway on a Bike by Eric Freeze. University of Nebraska Press |
 Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary, by Craig Harline. Eerdmans |
 Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, by Ingrid Ricks. Berkley |
Criticism (2013-2014)
 Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game. Orson Scott Card, editor. Smart Pop , 2013 |
 “Of Many Hearts and Many Minds: The Mormon Novel and the Post-Utopian Challenge of Assimilation,” by Scott Hales. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati. 2014 |
 “Toward a Mormon Literary Theory”. By Jack Harrell. BYU Studies Quarterly 53.3, 2014 |
Drama
 The Weaver of Raveloe, by Erika Glenn and Melissa Leilani Larsen |
 Pride and Prejudice, by Melissa Leilani Larsen |
 Single Wide, by George Nelson and Jordan Kamalu |
 Evening Eucalyptus, by Mahonri Stewart |
Film
 Inspired Guns. Adam White, director |
 The Last Straw. Rob Diamond, director |
 Meet The Mormons. Blair Treu, director |
 Mitt. Greg Whiteley, director |
 Saints & Soldiers: The Void. Ryan Little, director |
Middle Grade Novel
 The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, by Julie Berry. MacMillian |
 Almost Super, by Marion Jensen. Harper Collins |
 Time of the Fireflies, by Kimberley Griffiths Little. Scholastic |
 Sky Raiders, by Brandon Mull. Aladdin |
 The End or Something Like That, by Ann Dee Ellis. Dial |
Novel
 A Song for Issy Bradley, by Carys Bray. Ballantine |
 The Bishop’s Wife, by Mette Ivie Harrison. Soho Crime |
 Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. Tor |
 The Thieves of Summer, by Linda Sillitoe. Signature Books |
 City of Brick and Shadow, by Tim Wirkus. Tyrus Books |
Picture Book
 The Princess in Black, by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Candlewick Press |
 Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible, by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, illustrated by Kathleen Peterson. Deseret Book Company |
 Fetch, by Adam Glendon Sidwell, illustrated by Edwin Rhemrev. Future House Publishing |
 The World According to Musk Ox, by Erin Cabatingan, illustrated by Matthew Myers. Roaring Book Press |
 The Tooth Fairy Wars, by Kate Coombs, illustrated by Jake Parker. Atheneum Books. |
Poetry (2013)
 sonosuono, by Alex Caldiero. Elik Press |
 Salt, by Susan Elizabeth Howe. Signature Books |
 Genius Loci, by Lance Larsen. University of Tampa Press |
Poetry (2014)
 Picture Dictionary, by Kristen Eliason. Flaming Giblet Press. |
 Uncommon Prayer and Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, by Kimberly Johnson. Persea Press and University of Pennsylvania Press. |
 In the Museum of Coming and Going, by Laura Stott. New Issues Poetry Press. |
Religious Non-Fiction
 Re-Reading Job, by Michael Austin. Greg Kofford Books |
 Seeking the Promised Land, by David Campbell, John Green, and Quin Monson. Cambridge University Press |
 Wresting the Angel, by Terryl Givens. Oxford University Press |
Short Fiction (2013)
 “The Chaplain’s Legacy” by Brad Torgersen from Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2013 |
 “The Righteous Road” by Ryan Shoemaker from Silk Road Review, Summer/Fall 2013 |
 “Expiation” by Richard Dutcher from Sunstone #171, July 2013 |
 “Duplex” by Eric Freeze from Prairie Fire 34.1, Spring 2013 |
 “The Gift of Tongues” by Annette Haws from Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Winter 2013 |
Short Fiction (2014)
 “Recollection” by Nancy Fulda from Carbide Tipped Pens. TOR: Dec. 2014 |
 “Two-Dog Dose” by Steven Peck from Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 2014 |
 “Anatomy” by Tim Wirkus from Weird Fiction Review, June 2014 |
 “Jesus Enough” by Levi S. Peterson from Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Winter 2014 |
Young Adult General Novel
 Death Coming Up the Hill, by Chris Crowe. Houghton Mifflin |
 Forbidden, by Kimberley Griffiths Little. Harper Collins |
 On the Fence, by Kasie West. Harper Collins. |
 Signed, Skye Harper, by Carol Lynch Williams. Paula Wiseman Books |
 Stronger than You Know, by Jolene Perry. Albert Whiteman Teen. |
Young Adult Speculative Novel
 Atlantia, by Ally Condie. Penguin/Dutton |
 The Paper Magician, by Charlie Holmberg. 47North/Amazon |
 The Unhappening of Genesis Lee, by Shallee McArthur. Sky Pony Press |
 Son of War, Daughter of Chaos, by Janette Rallison. Self |
 Ruins, by Dan Wells. Harper Collins |
 Illusions of Fate, by Kiersten White. Harper Collins. |
An award for Comics, the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters, and two Lifetime Membership Awards will also be announced at the AML conference .
The finalists and award winners are chosen by judges and panels of judges knowledgeable in the categories. Last year no awards were given in Criticism, Poetry, and Short Story. To make up for this, works from both 2013 and 2014 are being considered for the Criticism award, and two separate awards, one each for 2013 and 2014, will be awarded for Poetry and Short Story.
A long-standing AML awards tradition is to not honor an artist in the same category two years in a row. For this reason, a few works were not considered for the 2014 awards. These included works by Melissa Dalton-Bradford, Scott Hales, Sarah Eden, and Cindy Hogan.
Congratulations to all of the finalists, and thank you to all of the judges, who I asked to read a lot of works in a short amount of time.
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