37th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards

Official Nominee List

First Novel - Judge: Harriette Austin

Chandler, Cliff - The Paragons
Davis, Jerry Lee - Twin City
Jones, Barbara - Moonlight Bowl Manifesto
McHenry, Paul T. III - Code Name: Antidote
Spivey, Sylvia Sammons - The Pocket Sack

Fiction - Judge: Faye McDonald Smith

Connor, Beverly - Airtight Case
DeLoach, Nora - Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows
Durban, Pam - So Far Back
Hudson, Joyce Rockwood - Apalachee
Kay, Terry - Taking Lottie Home
Willard, Fred - Princess Naughty and The Voodoo Cadillac

Short Stories/Anthologies - Judge: Peter Christopher

Bishop, Michael - Blue Kansas Sky
Ballard, Mark - Colorful Comedies & Creative Celebrations
Jacobs, Jimmy - Moonlight Through the Pines
Manley, Frank - Among Prisoners
Ball, Donna; Chastain, Sandra; Dixon, Debra; Knight, Nancy; Smith, Nancy - Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes

Creative Non Fiction - Judge: Dr. Charles Connor

HEALING/INSPIRATIONAL DIVISION
Maurer, Marsha - In the Garden
Mitchell, Mardeene Burr - Ten Secrets for Mind/Body Healing
Pace, Melonda - He Turned my Dung into Fertilizer
Prothro, Crystaline Joi - Happy On A Virgin's Island
Queen, Niki Collins - Earth, The Forgotten Temple
Statham, George - Science, Scripture and Truth

MEMOIR DIVISION
Bailey, Cornelia Walker w/Bledsoe, Christena - God, Dr Buzzard, and the Bolito Man
Fleming, Celestine Sibley - A Granddaughter's Reminiscence
Hirsch, Benjamin - Hearing a Different Drummer
Holmes, Grace Bryan - Time to Reconcile
Jordan, Hamilton - No Such Thing as a Bad Day
Williams, Kathy - Thorns of Two Roses
Yarbrough, C. Richard - And They Call Them Games

ESSAY DIVISION
Cofer, Judith Ortiz - Woman in Front of the Sun
Cooper, Jackie K. - Journey of a Gentle Southern Man
Fussell, Kenny - When Even Your Mama Can't Help
Harvey, Steven - Bound for Shady Grove
Hemphill, Paul - The Ballad of Little River
Homan, Tim - Hiking Trails of the Cohutta & Big Frog Wilderness
Jordan, Hellyn Lackey - Escape From the Little White Crosses
Kay, Terry - Special Kay
Maple, Terry L. - Saving the Giant Panda
Young, Frank writing as Frank Writer - Queen Bee

BIOGRAPHY DIVISION
Curry, Constance - Aaron Henry
Gordon, Sarah - Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination
Lloyd, Craig - Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris
Padgelek, Mary - In the Hand of the Holy Spirit

SELF-HELP/HOW-TO DIVISION
Alexander, Bob - Making It Happen
Blair, Bevelyn - Bevelyn Blair's Everyday Cakes
Bowerman, Peter - The Well-Fed Writer
Bowlby, Rex - Why Would I Want the Toy When I Can Have the Box?
Casto, Michelle - Get Smart! About Modern Career Development
Duke, Marshall P. & Sara B. - What Works With Children
Good, Cynthia - Vaccinating Your Child
Hastings, Chris - Southern Lawns
Howard, Clark & Meltzer, Mark - Get Clark Smart
Rice, Homer - Lessons for Leaders
Segal, Marilyn & Cohen, Carolyn- Whose Illness Is It Anyway?
Stoller, Neca - How to Write Haiki/Cinquain
Swanson, Johnnie- Your Health is Your First Wealth

HISTORICAL DIVISION

Boyd, Bill - Blind Obedience
Bragg, William Harris - Griswoldville
Curry, Constance, Editor - Deep in Our Hearts
Manis, Andrew- Birmingham's Revolutionaries
Miles, Jim - Weird Georgia
Poole, John - Cracker Cavaliers
Warren, Christian- Brush With Death

Children's/Young Adult Literature - Judge: Bobbie Christmas

Coleman, Evelyn - Mystery of the Dark Tower
Deedy, Carmen Agra - The Yellow Star
Grice, Donna - You Decide, Volumes I, II, III
Strickland, Brad - When Mack Came Back
Thomas, Velma Maia - Freedom's Children

Poetry - Judge: Memye Curtis Tucker

Allen, Georgianne Christian - I Will Trust Him
Collier, Barbara Sims - Snapshots of A Lifetime
Corey, Stephen - Greatest Hits
Corseri, Gary - Too Soon, As Always
Holloway, Charlie - Ol' Saddles & Good Advice
Kellman, Anthony - Wings of a Stranger
Manson, Florine - When My Heart Speaks
Stoller, Neca - Piedmont Stubble
Swaby, M.J. - Give God The Praises
White, John, Jr. - Seeing In The Unseen
White, Raóul - Honeysuckle Memories
Whitestone, Lorenzo King - Intimate Thoughts
Williams, Deborah A. - Journey of Love
Williams, C. Denise - A Partaker of His Grace

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