Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations

2019 NOMINATIONS
are listed below. 
Please visit the Winners tab for a list of 2018 award recipients.

Visual Arts

Nominations:​ 
​The Myth of the Beast - Jonathan Kent Adams, Water Valley, MS
Looking Up! Artistic Explorations of Our Skies - Ana Anest, Watkinsville, GA
I Hear Southern Voices - Andrew Blanchard, Spartanburg, SC
Exhibit 2018, Oren Dunn Museum, Tupelo and 2018 Portraits - Robbie Boyd, Pontotoc, MS
Hissyfit: Works of 2018 - Laurie Alan Browne, Metairie, LA
New Work in Textiles - Coulter Fussell, Water Valley, MS
Unnatural History - Blair Hobbs, Oxford, MS
Spring - Wanda Lowery, Ridgeland, MS
Peaceable Kingdoms - Noah Saterstrom, Nashville, TN
Taking Flight - Laurin Stennis, Jackson, MS
Portals - Glennray Tutor, Oxford, MS​

Photography

Nominations:
Mississippi - Maude Schuyler Clay, Sumner, MS
Discovering Cat Island - John Cuevas and Jason Taylor, Gulfport, MS
Delta Hill Riders - Rory Doyle, Cleveland, MS
Mississippi Gulf Coast - Timothy T. Isbell, Gulfport, MS

Poetry

​Nominations:
Mississippi - Ann Fisher-Wirth, Oxford, MS
To Square a Circle - T. K. "Kris" Lee, Starkville, MS
Oceanic - Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Oxford, MS
Monument - Natasha Trethewey, Evanston, ILL

Music Composition (Classical)

​Nominations: 
Weather Report - Ken Davies, Gautier, MS
Landscapes - Ken Davies, Gautier, MS
This Dream - Steve Rouse, Louisville, KY
In Paradisum - James Sclater, Clinton, MS
Sacred Spaces - Price Walden, Oxford, MS​

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Fiction

Nominations:
How We Came to Be - Johnnie Bernhard, Ocean Springs, MS
The Reckoning - John Grisham, Charlottesville, VA
Promise - Minrose Gwin, Austin, TX
Original Syn - Beth Kander,Skokie, IL 
Bluff - Michael Kardos, Starkville, MS
Anatomy of a Miracle - Jonathan Miles, Milford, NJ
Country Dark - Chris Offutt, Oxford, MS
The Fighter - Michael Farris Smith, Oxford, MS
The Past is Never - Tiffany Quay Tyson, Denver, CO
Sweet & Low - Nick White, Columbus, OH
The Unmade World - Steve Yarbrough, Boston, MA

Nonfiction

​Nominations:
The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy - Kevin D. Greene, Hattiesburg, MS
Cups Up! How I Organized a Klavern, Plotted a Coup, Survived Prison, Graduated College, Fought Polluters and Started a Business - George T. Malvaney, Edwards, MS
Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi - Ellen B. Meacham, Taylor, MS
Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon, Oxford, MS
Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South - Kathryn B. McKee, Oxford, MS
Hurtin' Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Cenury South - Ted Ownby, Oxford, MS
Exploded View - Dustin Parsons, Oxford, MS
Catfish Dream: Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta - Julian Rankin, Ocean Springs, MS
Heroes, Rascals and the Law - James L. Robertson, Jackson, MS
Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women on the Black Freedom Struggle - Rebecca Tuuri, Hattiesburg, MS
Realizing Our Place: Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land- Catherine Egley Waggoner, Springfield, OH and Laura Egley Taylor, Santa Fe, NM
The Artful Evolution of Hal and Mal's - Malcolm White, Jackson, MS and Ginger Williams-Cook, Jackson, MS
To Live Here, You Have to Fight - Jessica Wilkerson, Oxford, MS
The Dinosaur Artist - Paige Williams, New York, NY

Music Composition (Contemporary)

Nominations:
Parking Lot Love Affair - O. B. Buchana, Walls, MS
Benton County Relic - Cedric Burnside, Ashland, MS
The Last Cherry Blossom - Dear Silas, Jackson, MS
Arden's Garden - John Milham, Laurel MS
It's Later Than You Think - Teardrop City, Oxford, MS