Winners

2019 Award Winners

Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award

The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters is pleased to announce the
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
John Ruskey
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Mr. Ruskey is a musician, writer, diarist, watercolorist, canoe maker, river guide, cook, and—as Southern Living described him in its 2017 Famous Southerners issue—environmental evangelist for the wonders of the Mississippi River.
For more details about John Ruskey visit these web sites:
Quapaw Canoe Company www.island63.com
Rivergator, an online canoeing guide of the river from St. Louis to New Orleans
http://www.island63.com/dispatch/index.cfm?id=409

Citation of Merit

In recognition and appreciation for their 40 years of contributing to the literary life of Mississippi,
the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters is pleased to present a
Citation of Merit Award
to
Square Books
Oxford, Mississippi

Category Winners

Visual Arts

Coulter Fussell, Water Valley - New Work - Textiles

Photography

Rory Doyle, Cleveland - Delta Hill Riders

Poetry

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Oxford - Oceanic

Music Composition (Classical)

Steve Rouse, Louisville, Kentucky - This Dream

Fiction

Tiffany Quay Tyson, Denver, Colorado - The Past Is Never

Nonfiction

Julian Rankin, Ocean Springs - Catfish Dream: Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta

Music Composition (Contemporary)

John Milham, Laurel - Arden's Garden

Previous Winners

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MIAL Previous Winners

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