1983 AML Awards

Criticism: Literary Scholarship

Eugene England for "The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature after 150 Years" (BYU Studies, no. 22.2 [1982], 131-60)

Drama

Thomas F. Rogers for God's Fools: Plays of the Mitigated Conscience (Thomas Green Taylor)

Editing & Publishing: Short Story Anthology

Levi S. Peterson for Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories (Orion Books)

Editing & Publishing: Special Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence

The Editors of Exponent II

Humor: First Prize

Calvin Grondahl for Freeway to Perfection (Sunstone Foundation)

Humor: Second Prize

Clifton Holt Jolley for "Selling the Chevrolet: A Moral Exercise" (Dialogue, no. 16.3 [1983], 82-86)

Novel

Douglas H. Thayer for Summer Fire (Orion Books)

Poetry: Young Poet Prize

Holly Ann Welker for "Feet" (The New Era [Aug 1983], 20-29)

Poetry

Clinton F. Larson for "A Romaunt of the Rose: A Tapestry of Poems" (BYU Studies, no. 23.1 [1983], 68-78)

Sermon: Special Commendation for Sustained Excellence

Neal A. Maxwell

Short Fiction

Levi S. Peterson for The Canyons of Grace (University of Chicago Press)

Special Award: Popular Mormon Fiction

Jack Weyland

Semifinalists

Literary Criticism

Marden J. Clark for "Paradox and Tragedy in Mormonism" (AML Proceedings [1979-82], 45-54)

Richard H. Cracroft for "'Seeking the Good, the Pure, the Elevating': A Short History of Mormon Literature" (Ensign [June-July 1983])

Eugene England for "Joseph Smith and the Tragic Quest" (AML Proceedings [1979-82], 55-69)

Edward Hart for "The Transformations of Love" (BYU Studies, no. 22.4 [1982], 447-)

Steven P. Sondrup for "The Possibility of Mormon Tragedy" (AML Proceedings [1979-82], 72-79)

Ronald L. Walker for "The Challenge and Craft of Mormon Biography" (BYU Studies, no. 22.2 [1982], 179-92)

William A. Wilson for "The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries" (Sunstone, 32-40)

Poetry

Dale Bjork for "That Man Might Be" (Dialogue, no. 15.1 [1982], 162-63)

Elizabeth Clark for "Re-born" (Ensign [March 1983], 62)

Marden J. Clark for "Christmas Voices, Poems" (BYU Studies, no. 22.4 [1982], 483-85)

Joyce Ellen Davis for "Embroideries" (Dialogue, no. 16.3 [1983], 46-47)

Patricia E. Gunter for "Judah: A Poem" (BYU Studies, no. 22.1 [1982], 106-7)

Randall L. Hall for "My Body All in Stars" (BYU Studies, no. 23.1 [1983], 40)

Allie Howe for "Resurrection" (BYU Studies, no. 22.2 [1982], 212-13)

Virginia Maughn Kammeyer for "Harvest" (Ensign [May 1983], 62)

Marki Messiaen for "Moroni" (Horizon and AML Newsletter, no. 7.2 [1983], 3)

Vernice Wineera Pere for "Where You Live with an Ocean" (Ensign [June 1983], 43)

Karl Sandberg for "The Rabbit Drive" (Dialogue, no. 15.1 [1982], 164-68)

Short Fiction

Alison Booth for "Aunt Teo" (Sunstone [May-June 1982], 56-59)

Ann Edwards-Cannon for "The Quilt" (Dialogue, no. 15.1 [1982], 169-77)

Michael Fillerup for "The Renovation of Marsha Fletcher" (Dialogue, no. 16.2 [1983], 79-99)

Lynn Larson for "Bawdy and Soul" (Sunstone [March-April 1982], 25-28)

Joseph Peterson for "The Genealogy of Della P. Paulsen" (Sunstone [Jan-Feb 1982], 7-13)

Karen Rosenbaum for "After the Flood . . . Me" (Sunstone [July-Aug 1983], 7-10)