​Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations

 
2022 NOMINATIONS
are listed below. 
Please visit the Winners tab for a list of 2020 & 2021 award recipients.

Visual Arts

Nominations:​ 
• Bearing Witness: Southern Visual Elegies, Jason Bouldin, Oxford, Mississippi 
• The Space Between, Adrienne Brown-David, Water Valley, Mississippi 
• Victory Dance II, Earl Dismuke, Oxford, Mississippi
• Recent Paintings, Thomas Goodman, Carrollton, Mississippi 
• Wonderings and Wanderings, Mary Hardy, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
• Recent Oil Paintings, Richard Kelso, Jackson, Mississippi 
• Over and Under, Carlyle Wolfe Lee, Oxford, Mississippi 
• Garden Boats for Osage Park, Jennifer Torres, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• Mississippi Shade, Claire Whitehurst, Ridgeland, Mississippi 

Photography

Nominations:
• Hold Nothing Back, Ashleigh Burke Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi 
• Recent Portraits, Ann Dinwiddie Madden, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
• Facing Mississippi and Each Other, Milly West, Oxford, Mississippi
• Earth, D'Artagnan Winford, Brandon, Mississippi

Poetry

​Nominations:​
• The Algorithm of I, Jack Crocker, Silver City, New Mexico
• Mister Toebones, Brooks Haxton, Syracuse, New York
• Come Clean, Joshua Nguyen, Oxford, Mississippi
• How to Read: Poems, Thomas Richardson, Columbus, Mississippi
• ​A Way of Looking, Jianqing Zheng, Greenwood, Mississippi
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Music Composition (Classical)

Nominations: 
• Arkansas Vignettes, Joe L. Alexander, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• khoral(e) diagrams, Michael Gardiner, Oxford, Mississippi
• Burning the Wicker Man, Julie Giroux, Madison, Mississippi
• Where Beauty Persists, Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky
• Psalm 23, Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky
• Liberation Rangers, Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky
• Five Mississippi Rush, Clifton Taylor, Starkville, Mississippi


Youth Literature
​Nominations:
• From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves, Gilbert Ford, Brooklyn, New York
• Scooter Mouse Finds Christmas, Alice Rhea Mitchell, Magnolia, Mississippi
​• Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas, Ridgeland, Mississippi 
• Kiss and Repeat, Heather Truett, Olive Branch, Mississippi 
•We Are All Under One Wide Sky, Deborah Wiles, Tucker, Georgia
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Fiction

Nominations:
• She Wouldn't Change a Thing, Sarah Adlakha, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
• The Heathens: A Quinn Colson Novel, Ace Atkins, Oxford, Mississippi
• Shoot the Moonlight Out, William Boyle, Oxford, Mississippi
• John and Mary Margaret, Susan Cushman, Memphis, Tennessee
• The House Uptown, Melissa Allee Ginsburg, Oxford, Mississippi 
• The Age of Discovery and Other Stories, Becky Hagenston, Starkville, Mississippi
• The Killing Hills, Chris Offutt, Oxford, Mississippi
• Nick, Michael Farris Smith, Oxford, Mississippi
• ​The Siren, Katherine St. John, Sandy Springs, Georgia
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Nonfiction

Nominations:
• Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi: Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018, Harry Bolick, Hopewell Junction, New York (written with Tony Russell)
• Rulers of the SEC: Ole Miss and Mississippi State, 1959-1966, James R. Crockett, Madison, Mississippi
• A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape, W. Ralph Eubanks, Washington, D.C.
• Land of Milk and Money: The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry, Alan I. Marcus, Mississippi State, Mississippi
• Maverick Gardeners: Dr. Dirt and Other Determined Independent Gardeners, Felder Rushing, Jackson, Mississippi 
• Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land, Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks, Jackson, Mississippi
• The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry: A People's History, Deanne Love Stephens, Biloxi, Mississippi
• When Evil Lived In Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer, Curtis Wilkie, Oxford, Mississippi 

Life Writing

Nominations:
• A Sportsman's Journey, Donald C. Jackson, Starkville, Mississippi
• The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, Alicia K. Jackson, Lookout Mountain, Georgia
• 60: A Year of Sports, Race and Politics, Robert Khayat, Oxford, Mississippi
• Dear William, David Magee, Oxford, Mississippi
• The Mama Chronicles, Teresa Nicholas, Jackson, Mississippi
• A Quantum Life: My Journey from the Streets to the Stars, Hakeem Oluyesi, Fairfax, Virginia



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Music Composition (Contemporary)

Nominations:
• Flatlands, Scott Coopwood (The Bobalows), Cleveland, Mississippi 
• The Girls Are Back in Town, Chapel Hart, New Orleans, Louisiana 
• 662, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Clarksdale, Mississippi
• Never Too Late to Call, Paul Thorn, Plantersville, Mississippi
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