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2022 Award Winners pictured above: (top left to right): Angie Thomas, Ashleigh Burke Coleman, Joshua Nguyen,
Becky Hagenston, Teresa Nicholas, W. Ralph Eubanks, William R. Dunlap; (bottom left to right) Steve Rouse, Jennifer Torres,
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Kenneth Holditch, Scott Barretta, Bill Ellison, and Patrick O'Connor


The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023

Category Awards


Fiction – Midnight on the Marne by Sarah Adlakha, Ocean Springs

Nonfiction – The Times They Were a-Changin’ by Robert S. McElvaine, Clinton

Life Writing – O. N. Pruitt’s Possum Town by Berkley Hudson,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Poetry – Doll Apollo by Melissa Ginsburg, Oxford

Youth Literature – The Lucky Ones by Linda Williams Jackson, Southaven

Music Composition (Contemporary) – Going Back to Mississippi  by Johnny Rawls, Purvis

Music Composition (Classical) – Quadrabonix by Steve Rouse,
Louisville, Kentucky

Photography – Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father by David Rae Morris, New Orleans, Louisiana

Visual Arts – My Love for You Is Deathless by Coulter Fussell, Water Valley

Special Achievement Award
to
Tupelo Reads
a collaborative effort by the Lee County Library, City of Tupelo, Reeds Gumtree Bookstore, Tupelo High School, Boys and Girls Clubs, and interested citizens to promote literacy and lifelong learning. 

 Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award
to 
Panny Flautt Mayfield
​Clarksdale
for her extensive support of arts and letters in Mississippi. Mayfield is an award-winning journalist who has photographed and written about blues and gospel music, playwright Tennessee Williams, and Delta life for decades. She is also the founding director of the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Literary Festival.



 

Visual Arts

2022 - Jennifer Torres, Hattiesburg - Garden Boats for Osage Park
​2021 - Cathy Hegman, Holly Bluff - Pandemic Perceptions
2020 - Stacey Johnson, Pass Christian 
– Storytellers


Photography


2022 - Ashleigh Burke Coleman, Ackerman - Hold Nothing Back
​2021 - Andrea Morales, Oxford - Roll Down Like Water
2020 - Will Jacks, Cleveland 
– Po’ Monkey’s: Portrait of a Juke Joint


Poetry

2022 - Joshua Nguyen, Oxford - Come Clean
​2021- Catherine Pierce, Starkville - Danger Days
2020 - C. T. Salazar, Caledonia 
– This Might Have Meant Fire


Music Composition (Classical)

2022 - Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky - Where Beauty Persists
​2021 - James Sclater, Clinton - Angels
2020 - Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky 
– The Bird, the Bee, and the Bear

Fiction


2022 - Becky Hagenston, Starkville - The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
​2021 - Odie Lindsey, Nashville, Tennessee - Some Go Home
2020 - Minrose Gwin, Albuquerque, New Mexico 
– The Accidentals


Nonfiction

2022 - W. Ralph Eubanks, Washington, D.C. - A Place Like Mississippi: A Journal Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
​2021 - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Princeton, New Jersey - Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
2020 - Margaret McMullan, Pass Christian - Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return

​Life Writing
2022 - Teresa Nicholas, Jackson - The Mama Chronicles: A Memoir



Music Composition (Contemporary)

2022 - Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Clarksdale - 662
2021 - Steve Azar, Greenville - My Mississippi Reunion
​2020 - Bark (Susa​n and Tim Lee), Knoxville, Tennessee - Terminal Everything

Youth Literature
2022 - Angie Thomas, Ridgeland - Concrete Rose
2021 - Deborah Wiles, Tucker, Georgia - Kent State
2020 - Angie Thomas, Ridgeland - On the Come Up
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Previous Winners

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MIAL Previous Winners
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