1981 AML Awards

Criticism

George S. Tate for "The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon" (Literature of Belief: Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience [1981], 245-62)

Poetry

Robert A. Rees for "Gilead" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Jan-Feb 1981], 49)

Linda Sillitoe for "Lullaby in the New Year" (Sunstone [May-June 1981], 40-43)

Short Fiction

Robert A. Christmas for "Another Angel" (Dialogue, no. 14.2 [1981], 117-31)

Semifinalists

Criticism

Karen Lynn for "Sensational Virtue: Nineteenth-Century Mormon Fiction and American Popular Taste" (Dialogue, no. 14.3 [1981], 101-11)

Thomas F. Rogers for "The Sacred in Literature" (Literature and Belief, no. 1 [1981], 57-59)

Steven P. Sondrup for "On Confessing Belief: Thoughts on the Language of the Articles of Faith" (Literature of Belief: Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience [1981], 197-215)

George S. Tate for "The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon" (Literature of Belief: Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience [1981], 24-62)

Willaim A. Wilson for "On Being Human: The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries" (64th Faculty Honor Lecture, Utah State University [1981])

Bruce W. Young for "Literary Criticism and Religious Values" (Literature and Belief, no. 1 [1981], 95-112)

Fiction

Ann Edwards Cannon for "Separate Prayers" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Nov-Dec 1981], 32-37)

Robert A. Christmas for "Another Angel" (Dialogue, no. 14.2 [1981], 17)

Lewis B. Horne for "The Stroke" (San Jose Studies [May 1981], 51-57)

Lewis B. Horne for "Roadshow" (The Chariton Review, no. 7 [Spring 1981], 55-64)

Lewis B. Horne for "Widow's Sanctuary" (Descant, no. 12 [1981], 125-30)

Dean Hughes for Hooper Haller (Deseret Book)

Eileen Gibbons Kump for "The Ladder" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Jan-Feb 1981], 50-52)

Myrna Marler for "Last Favor for a Stranger" (Kula Manu [1981], 12-17)

Donald Marshall for "Lavender Blue" (Sunstone, no. 6 [March-Apr 1981], 45-49)

Pauline Mortensen for "Barn Building" (Inscape, no. 1 [Fall 1981], 160-68)

Levi Peterson for "Trinity" (Ascent, no. 7 [Fall 1981], 1-8)

Levi Peterson for "The Shriveprice" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Sept-Oct 1981], 50-58)

Annette Shook for "Here With You Now" (Kula Manu [1981], 70-73)

Linda Sillitoe for "Demons" (Sunstone, no. 6 [May-June 1981], 40-43)

Linda Sillitoe for "The Last Day of Spring" (Dialogue, no. 14.4 [1981], 152-59)

Poetry

Kristine Barret for "The Salon" (Exponent II, no. 8 [Fall 1981], 17)

Kristine Barret for "To Mother" (Exponent II, no. 7 [Winter 1981], 8)

Dale Bjork for "Two Poems on Entanglement" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Nov-Dec 1981], 58)

Dawn Baker Brimley for "Sanctuary" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Nov-Dec 1981], 58)

Ann Edwards Cannon for "Columbine" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Jan-Feb 1981], 32)

Ann Edwards Cannon for "Merlin (A Poem for My Father)" (Exponent II, no. 7 [Winter 1981], 8)

Mitch Davis for "Reception" (Inscape, no. 1 [Fall 1981], 75)

Eugene England for "Kinsman" (BYU Studies, no. 21.4 [1981], 488-89)

Eugene England for "Black Walnut" (Literature and Belief, no. 1 [1981], 90)

Steven Goldsberry for "Wind Shakes the Water White" (Kula Manu [1981], 6)

Patricia Ellen Gunter for "Judah" (Inscape, no. 1 [Fall 1981], 23-24)

Randall Hall for "Passover: a Mirrored Epiphany" (Dialogue, no. 14.3 [1981], 113)

Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Beginning to Bodysurf" (Kula Manu [1981], 85-86)

Clinton F. Larson for "War Veteran at a Clinic" (BYU Studies, no. 21.3 [1981], 378)

Robert A. Rees for "Gilead" (Sunstone, no. 6 [Jan-Feb 1981], 17)

Annette Shook for "Her Children" (Kula Manu [1981], 36)

Linda Sillitoe for "Lullaby in the New Year" (Exponent II, no. 8 [Fall 1981], 17)

Emma Lou Thayne for "Renunciation" (Exponent II, no. 7 [Summer 1981], 17)