From the Association for Mormon Letters:
AML is pleased to announce that Margaret Blair Young has taken office as the new AML President, with J. Scott Bronson as President-Elect. Boyd Petersen, last year’s president, will now serve a term as Past President. Other new members of the board are Phillip Snyder and Charles Swift. James Goldberg and Eric Samuelsen will continue on the board. Lynn Bronson has accepted the position as Treasurer, and Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury has a new title, Membership Secretary. Jacob Profitt continues to serve as webmaster and Darlene Young as secretary.
The 2009 AML Awards were also presented at the AML Annual Meeting at Utah Valley University on 27 February 2010.
Drama
Melissa Leilani Larson for Little Happy Secrets
Film
Jed Wells for Fire Creek
Honorary Lifetime Membership
James D’Arc
Humor
Elna Baker for The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
Memoir
Kathryn Lynard Soper for The Year My Son and I Were Born
Novel
Todd Robert Petersen for Rift
Novel Honorable Mention
Jamie Ford for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Online Writing
Sandra Tayler for One Cobble at a Time
Poetry
Lance Larsen for Backyard Alchemy
Publishing
Christopher Bigelow for Zarahemla Books
Service to AML
Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury
Short Fiction
Larry Menlove for "Path of Antelope, Pelican, and Moon"
Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters
Levi Peterson
Young Adult Literature
Carol Lynch Williams for The Chosen One
The citations for the awards can be read on the AML website at http://www.mormonletters.org/Awards/Year.aspx?year=2009
Just follow the links to each award page.
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