1977  AML Awards

Criticism
Clifton Holt Jolley for "The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith: An Archetypal Study"

Poetry
Linda Sillitoe for The Old Philosopher, Letter to a Four-Year-Old Daughter
Arthur Henry King for The Field Behind Holly House

Short Fiction
Douglas H. Thayer for Under the Cottonwoods
Donald Marshall for Frost in the Orchard