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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 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, i.... 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    Jean Oram

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    Jennie Kew

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Claire Raye

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    Maia Ross

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    Kristin MacQueen

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    Roxie Noir

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    Melissa Belle

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    Lexy Timms

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    Roma Cordon

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    L. Frank Baum

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