Nominations

Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations

Visual Arts

Nominations:
A History of Jackson Mississippi, Charlie Buckley, Oxford
Silence of the Trees, Dot Courson, Pontotoc
Jennifer Drinkwater: The What's Good Project, Jennifer Drinkwater, Ames, Iowa
Radiant Matter, Blair Hobbs, Oxford
Paintings, Richard Kelso, Richard Kelso, Jackson
Exploration of Alternate Realities, Joe A, MacGown, Starkville
Memories, Susan Patton, Bruce
Mixed Tape, Stacy Underwood, Jackson

Photography

Nominations:
Photographs from the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, 1973, Roy Lewis, Hyattsville, Maryland
Thank You Please Come Again: How Gas Stations Feed & Fuel the American South, Kate Medley, Durham, North Carolina
The Shape of Water, Carolyn McIntire Norton, Elsah, Illinois
Mississippi's Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna, Wesley L. Shoop, Brandon

Poetry

Nominations:
Muscadine, A. H. Jerriod Avant, Crenshaw
The Art of Coming Undone, Christie Collins, Starkville
Paradise Is Jagged, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Oxford
The Dog Years of Reeducation, Jianqing Zheng, Greenwood

Music Composition (Classical)

Nominations:
"Five by Five" for Percussion Quintet, David Carlisle, Oxford
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Timothy Coker, Jackson
Interruptive Clatters for Unaccompanied Cello, Ivan Elezovic, Jackson
Samuel Jones: Three Concertos/Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Samuel Jones, Auburn, Washington
Flute Sonata, Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky
Morreale Monologues, Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky
Stand, Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky
Rodeo Blue, Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky

Youth Literature
Nominations:
One Mississippi, Sarah Frances Hardy (Illustrator), Oxford
Wolfboy is Scared, Andy Harkness, Renando Beach, California
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy, Angie Thomas, Atlanta, Georgia

Fiction

Nominations:
Be Mine, Richard Ford, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Exchange, John Grisham, Charlottesville, Virginia
Biography of X: A Novel, Catherine Lacey, Mexico City, Mexico
Code of the Hills: A Rick Hardin Novel, Chris Offutt, Oxford
The Weeds, Katy Simpson Smith, New Orleans, Louisiana
Salvage This World, Michael Farris Smith, Oxford
Vicious Circle, Katherine St. John, Sandy Springs, Georgia
Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward, DeLisle
We Are a Haunting, Tyriek White, Oxford

Nonfiction

Nominations:
To Dance, To Live: A Biography of Thalia Mara, Carolyn J. Brown, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing, Shalyn Claggett, Starkville
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future, Robert P. Jones, Takoma Park, Maryland
William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator, Mark Hugh Malone, Hattiesburg
The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South, Charles Reagan Wilson, Oxford
Becoming Ezra Jack Keats, Virginia McGee Butler, Hattiesburg

Life Writing

Nominations:
Stalking Shakespeare, Lee Durkee, Oxford
The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning, Ellen Ann Fentress, Jackson
How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told, Harrison Scott Key, Savannah, Georgia
The Poacher's Nightmare: Stories of an Undercover Game Warden, Kennie Prince, Brandon

Music Composition (Contemporary)

Nominations:
Hell to Pay by Tyler Keith & the Apostles, Tyler Keith, Oxford
Loud by Bark, Tim and Susan Lee, Water Valley
5 songs: Beautiful Mess, Black Empress, Move, City with Soul, & Our Rebellious Hearts, Teneia Sanders, New Orleans, Louisana

​Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Nominations