Nominations

Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations

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

Visual Arts

Nominations:
Jason Bouldin, How Can I Keep From Singing? Elegies in Paint
Charlie Buckley, Flooded Delta
Earl Dismuke, 2019 Collection
Jennifer Drinkwater, Faces and Spaces
Kat Fitzpatrick, Not a Still Life
Stacey Johnson, Storytellers
Richard Kelso, Richard Kelso Recent Works
Carlyle Wolfe Lee, Full Bouquet
Laurin McCracken, Watercolors
Gail Morton, Seymour Prater series & others
Marc Poole, Works Created as part of the Natural Museum of the Marine Corps' Combat Art Program
Bill Wilson, The Mississippi Governor's Mansion: Memories of the People's Home

Photography

Nominations:
Nadia Alexis, What Endures
William Eggleston, The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston
Melody Golding, Life Between the Levees: America's Riverboat Pilots
Will Jacks, Po' Monkey's: Portrait of a Juke Joint
Brooke White, Sense of South, Mississippi Burning

Poetry

Nominations:
Ann Fisher-Wirth, The Bones of Winter Birds
Frank LaRue Owen, The Temple of Warm Harmony
C. T. Salazar, This Might Have Meant Fire
Jordan Sanderson, Dendrology, Swelter

Music Composition (Classical)

Nominations:
Valentin M. Bogdan, "Vantage Points" for bassoon & violin
Quincy C. Hilliard, Give Me Tomorrow
Steve Rouse, The Bird, The Bee, and The Bear
Steve Rouse, Move
Steve Rouse, Tunnell's Vision
Wadada Leo Smith, Rosa Parks: Pure Love, An Oratorio of Seven Songs

Fiction

Nominations:
John W. Bateman, Who Killed Buster Sparkle?
William Boyle, A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself
Minrose Gwin, The Accidentals
Lisa Howorth, Summerlings: A Novel
Greg Iles, Cemetery Road
R. J. Lee, Grand Slam Murders
Mary Miller, Biloxi
Snowden Wright, American Pop

Nonfiction

Nominations:
William Alsup, Won Over: Reflections of a Federal Judge on His Journey from Jim Crow Mississippi
Lovejoy Boteler, Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard
William Dunlap, Pappy Kitchens and the Saga of Red Eye the Rooster
Brooks Eason, Fortunate Son
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal
John Hailman, Foreign Missions of an American Prosecutor: From Moscow to Morocco and Paris to the Persian Gulf
Shelby Harriel, Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi
Margaret McMullan, Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return
Wright Thompson, The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
Tammy L. Turner, Dick Waterman: A Life in Blues
Diane Williams, The Life and Legacy of B. B. King: A Mississippi Blues Icon

Music Composition (Contemporary)

Nominations:
Bark (Tim Lee and Susan Bauer Lee), Terminal Everything
North Mississippi Allstars, Up and Rolling
George Cartwright, dell'umore di chi e sempre in attesa
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Kingfish
Molly Thomas, Honey's Fury
Tricia Walker, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Eye

Youth Literature
Nominations:
Jimmy Cajoleas, Minor Prophets
Jimmy Cajoleas, The Rambling
Gilbert Ford (Illustrator), Rotten! Vultures, Beetles, Slime, and Nature's Other Decomposers
John Grisham, Theodore Boone: The Accomplice
Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

​Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations