1985 AML Awards

Criticism

Steven Walker for Seven Ways of Looking at Susanna (Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature)

Novel

Herbert Harker for Circle of Fire (Bookcraft)

Personal Essay

Edward Geary for Goodbye to Poplarhaven (University of Utah Press)

Poetry

Emma Lou Thayne

Short Fiction

Neal C. Chandler for "Benediction" (Dialogue, no. 18.2 [1985], 152-66)