2012 Winners & Finalists

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dr. Ferrol Sams

CHILDREN’S BOOK
Robin Lynne Gordon, Lift: A Gosling’s First Flight

ESSAY
Ed Grisamore, Never Put a Ten- Dollar Tree in a Ten-Cent Hole… and Other Stories

FICTION
Man Martin, Paradise Dogs

FIRST NOVEL
Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain

HISTORY
Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

MEMOIR
Nancy Stephan, Truth About Butterflies

POETRY
Alice Friman, Vinculum: Poems

SHORT STORY
Terry Kay, The Greats of Cuttercane 

SPECIALTY BOOK
Phillip Juras, The Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram’s Travels

YOUNG ADULT
Ted Dunagan, Trouble on the Tombigbee