Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award Winners

The prestigious awards, first made in 1980, are presented in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Visual Art, Musical Composition (Concert), Musica ...more

Winners

	Kent State by Deborah Wiles (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 3,991 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Youth Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Danger Days by Catherine Pierce (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 51 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 5,442 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Go Home by Odie Lindsey 3.32 avg rating — 170 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 91,840 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Youth Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Might Have Meant Fire by C.T. Salazar 4.68 avg rating — 25 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Angels Lived by Margaret McMullan 4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accidentals by Minrose Gwin 3.58 avg rating — 813 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by Tim Earley 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New History of Mississippi by Dennis J. Mitchell 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starting Over by Elizabeth Spencer 3.57 avg rating — 328 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 21,872 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Realm of Last Chances by Steve Yarbrough (Goodreads Author) 3.40 avg rating — 488 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strom Thurmond's America by Joseph Crespino 3.95 avg rating — 132 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canada by Richard Ford 3.51 avg rating — 26,436 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place by Susan Haltom 4.53 avg rating — 49 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Last Good Time by Michael Kardos (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 54 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Natasha Trethewey 3.92 avg rating — 494 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson 3.94 avg rating — 447 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Price of Defiance by Charles W. Eagles 4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waveland by Frederick Barthelme 3.29 avg rating — 318 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon 4.38 avg rating — 6,551 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pelican Road by Howard Bahr 3.98 avg rating — 177 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) (Politics and Society in Modern America, 63) by Joseph Crespino 3.87 avg rating — 62 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan 3.85 avg rating — 280 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 by Jere Nash 3.68 avg rating — 40 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford 3.91 avg rating — 4,384 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eudora Welty by Suzanne Marrs 3.93 avg rating — 214 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey 3.75 avg rating — 747 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg by Timothy B. Smith 4.33 avg rating — 91 ratings Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars