Nominations

Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations

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

Visual Arts

Nominations:
Carl Blackledge, New Paintings
Adrienne Domnick, works in How We Fly
Helene Fielder, Helene Fielder: Shapes of Things
Lee Harper, Collection of Tiny Mississippi Pieces
Cathy Hegman, Pandemic Perceptions
Blair Hobbs, Ground
Sabrina Howard, works in How We Fly
Frank Janca, Mississippi: The French Connection
Andrea Kostyal, New Normal
Carlyle Wolfe Lee, Anniversary
Laurin McCracken, Watercolor
David Thomas Roberts, New works in 2020
Jennifer Torres, Misfit Children: Landscapes and Creatures From the Mind of Jen Torres
Kim Whitt, Abstraction in Nature

Photography

Nominations:
Ed Croom, Plants Around Us in the American South, In the Landscape
Michael Foster, untitled
Will Jacks, In the Winter of the Willow
Andrea Morales, Roll Down Like Water
Carolyn Norton, Wild Grace
Carolyn Norton, A Yellow Rose Project

Poetry

Nominations:
Richard Boada, We Find Each Other in the Darkness
Adam Clay, To Make Room for the Sea
Catherine Pierce, Danger Days
C. T. Salazar, Forty Stitches Sewing a Body Against a Ramshackle Night
Claude Wilkinson, World Without End

Music Composition (Classical)

Nominations:
Allen Carroll, Melbourne
Barry Kopetz, A Southern Reflection
Paul Morgan, The Third Moon
James Sclater, Angels

Youth Literature
Nominations:
Gilbert Ford (illustrator), Alice Across America: The Story of the First Women's Cross-Country Road Trip
Gilbert Ford (author & illustrator), The Mysterious Messenger
Jennifer Moffett, Those Who Prey
Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars
Deborah Wiles, Kent State
Deborah Wiles, Night Walk to the Sea

Fiction

Nominations:
Ace Atkins, The Revelators: A Quinn Colson Novel
Johnnie Bernhard, Sisters of the Undertow
Bill Boyle, City of Margins
Lee Durkee, The Last Taxi Driver
John Grisham, A Time for Mercy
Catherine Lacey, Pew
Odie Lindsey, Some Go Home
Katy Simpson Smith, The Everlasting
Michael Farris Smith, Blackwood

Nonfiction

Nominations:
Trent Brown, Murder in McComb: The Tina Andrews Case
B. Brian Foster, I Don't Like the Blues
Mary D. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Richard Grant, The Deepest South of All
Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
John F. Marszalck III, Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi
Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders
Brian A. Pugh, Chaos and Compromise: The Evolution of the Mississippi Budgeting Process
Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive
Lawrence Wells, In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir

Music Composition (Contemporary)

Nominations:
Steve Azar, My Mississippi Reunion
Bronwynne Brent, Undercover
Andrew Bryant, Sentimental Noises
Cedric Burnside, Cedric Burnside at End of All Music
Dear Silas, Plus ULTRA
Tyler Keith, The Last Drag

​Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations