The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters is pleased to announce the 2026 winners:
The Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award
to
Richard Ford
Special Achievement Award
to
Ellen Ann Fentress
for her film
Eyes on Mississippi
Special Achievement Award
to
David Rae Morris
for his film
My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is
Citation of Merit
to
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference
Citation of Merit
to
Attic Gallery
Visual ArtsJerrod Partridge, Ocean Springs – Call Home, Mississippi Museum of ArtPhotographyKat Fitzpatrick, Bay St. Louis – Kat Fitzpatrick at Mockingbird GalleryPoetrySaddiq Dzukogi, Lincoln, Nebraska – Bakandamiya: An ElegyMusic Composition (Classical)Price Walden, Oxford – Some Glad MorningLife Writing
Lauren Rhoades, Jackson – Split the Baby |
FictionAddie Citchens, New Orleans – DominionNonfictionAnne Marshall, Starkville – Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American ReformMusic Composition (Contemporary)
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Previous Winners
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MIAL Previous Winners
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[email protected]
MAILING ADDRESS
Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters
P. O. Box 2346
Jackson, MS 39225-2346
Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. All rights reserved.