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.
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
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.
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The Association for Mormon Letters (AML) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 to "foster scholarly and creative work in Mormon letters and to promote fellowship among scholars and writers of Mormon literature." Other stated purposes have included promoting the "production and study of Mormon literature" and the encouragement of quality writing "by, for, and about Mormons." The broadness of this definition of LDS literature has led the AML to focus on a wide variety of work that has sometimes been neglected in the Mormon community.