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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 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010 Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Richard CracroftBiography Marilyn Arnold for Bittersweet: A Daughter's MemoirCriticism Grant Hardy for Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide Drama / WebFilm Jeffrey Parkin & Jared Cardon for The Book of Jer3miahEditing Eric W. Jepson for "Comics!" Sunstone #160 Angela Hallstrom for Dispensation: Latter-day FictionMemoir George B. Handley for Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo RiverNovel Brady Udall for The Lonely Polygamist: A NovelOnline Writing Ardis Parshall for "Beards" on KeepapitchininPersonal Essay Patrick Madden for QuotidianaPoetry Marilyn Bushman-Carlton for Her Side of It: PoemsService to AML Darlene YoungShort Fiction Jack Harrell for A Sense of Order and Other StoriesShort Fiction Honorable Mention Darin Cozzens for Light of the New Day and Other StoriesYoung Adult Literature Ally Condie for Matched2011 Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Marilyn BrownHonorary Lifetime Membership Gideon BurtonBiography Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow for Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of MormonismAutobiography Emma Lou Warner Thayne for The Place of Knowing: a Spiritual AutobiographyCriticism Brant A. Gardner for The Gift and Power : Translating the Book of MormonFilm Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten for Sons of PerditionSpecial Award in Graphical Narrative Michael Dalton Allred for a lifetime of comic artNovel Steven L. Peck for The Scholar of MoabPersonal Essay Adam Miller, for the body of his work published in 2011Poetry 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 NovellaSpecial Award in Literary Journalism Andrew HallYoung Adult Novel Robison Wells for VariantMarilyn Brown Novel Award Paul Colt for Boots and Saddles: A Call to Glory2012 Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Eric SamuelsenLifetime AML Membership Mahonri Stewart Christopher BigelowFilm Redemption, directed by Thomas RussellNovel The Five Books of Jesus by James GoldbergDevotional The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life by Terryl and Fiona GivensPoetry Amytis Leaves Her Garden by Karen KelsayAward in Adaptation The Street-Legal Version of Mormon’s Book by Michael HicksDrama Roof Overhead by Mahonri StewartShort Fiction "Godshift" by Nancy Fulda (originally appeared in Daily Science Fiction)Young Adult Novel Vodnik by Bryce MooreMemoir/Creative Non Fiction The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna BrooksMiddle 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 Charlotte Hawkins EnglandOutstanding Achievement Award Dean HughesCreative non-fiction Melissa Dalton-Bradford for Global Mom: Eight Countries, Sixteen Addresses, Five Languages, One FamilyDrama Ariel Mitchell for A Second BirthFilm Garrett Batty for The Saratov ApproachSpecial Award Scott Hales for The Garden of EnidNovel Sarah Eden Longing for HomePoetry Alex Caldiero sonosuono (awarded on March 28, 2015)Other finalists Susan Elizabeth Howe Salt Lance Larsen Genius LociShort 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 2013Young Adult Fiction Cindy M. Hogan GravediggersYoung Adult Speculative Fiction Brandon Sanderson for The Rithmatist2014 Presented March 28, 2015, at the Utah Valley University Library. Smith–Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters Margaret Blair YoungAML Lifetime Achievement Award Lance Larsen Karen RosenbaumComics iPlates, Volume 2: Prophets, Priests, Rebels, and Kings by Stephen Carter and Jett AtwoodCreative non-fiction Hemingway on a Bike by Eric FreezeOther 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 RicksCriticism 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, 2014Drama Pride and Prejudice by Melissa Leilani LarsenOther finalists The Weaver of Raveloe by Erika Glenn and Melissa Leilani Larsen Single Wide by George Nelson and Jordan Kamalu Evening Eucalyptus by Mahonri StewartFilm Saints and Soldiers: The Void, Ryan Little, directorOther finalists Inspired Guns, Adam White, director The Last Straw, Rob Diamond, director Meet the Mormons, Blair Treu, director Mitt, Greg Whiteley, directorMiddle Grade Novel The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie BerryHonorable 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 MullNovel City of Brick and Shadow by Tim WirkusHonorable 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 SillitoePicture Book Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Courageous Women from the Bible by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, illustrated by Kathleen PetersonHonorable 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 ParkerPoetry Picture Dictionary by Kristen EliasonOther fin.... 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    The Glovemaker

    Ann Weisgarber

    Finalist for the Western Writers of America’s 2020 Spur Awards for Historical Novel Finalist for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards for Novel “Compelling historica...

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    The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

    Ann Weisgarber

    An awardwinning novel with incredible heart, about life on the prairie as it's rarely been seen When Rachel, hired help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the ...

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    The Lake House

    Marci Nault

    A heartwarming debut novel about the unlikely friendship between two outcasts of different generations who, in struggling to move on from the past, discover love, healing, and fami...