2011 Winners & Finalists

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Terry Kay

BIOGRAPHY
Larry L. McSwain, Loving Beyond Your Theology: The Life and Ministry of Jimmy Raymond Allen

CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK
Grady Thrasher, Tim and Sally’s Year in Poems

CHILDREN’S MID-READER
Peggy Mercer, Peach: When the Well Run Dry

ESSAY
Peter Augustine Lawler, Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What that Means for our Future

FICTION
Joshilyn Jackson, Backseat Saints

FIRST NOVEL
June Hall McCash, Almost to Eden

HISTORY
Toni P. Anderson, “Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus”: The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878

INSPIRATIONAL
Justin Spizman and Robyn Spizman, Don’t Give Up…Don’t Ever Give Up

MEMOIR
D. Craig Rikard, Hidden Epidemic: “Mama, Why Don’t You Remember Our Names Anymore?”

POETRY
Phillip Lee Williams, The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram

SPECIALTY BOOK
John A. Burrison, From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia

YOUNG ADULT
Ted Dunagan, Secret of the Satilfa