Award Winners
Don House and Sabine Schmidt – Remote Access – Winner, 2024 Arkansiana Book Award
Susan Kelly – Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks – Winner, 2024 Missouri Literary Award
Susan Kelly – Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks – First Place, 2024 Missouri Professional Communicators Communications Contest
Susan Kelly – Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks – Finalist, Society of Midland Authors Book Award
John Kirk – Winthrop Rockefeller – Winner, 2024 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
John Kirk – Winthrop Rockefeller – Winner, 2024 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Michael Pierce and Calvin White – Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta – Winner, 2024 John William Graves Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Rachel Stephens – Hidden in Plain Sight – Winner, 2023 SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication
Elizabeth Findley Shores – Shared Secrets, Winner, 2023 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Colin Woodward – Country Boy – Winner, 2023 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association
Jayson Iwen – Roze & Blud – Winner, 2020-2021 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award
Craig Blais – Moon News – Finalist, 2022 Housatonic Book Awards
Terry Anne Scott – Lynching and Leisure – Winner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment “Best Book” Award from the East Texas Historical Association
Jason Winders – George Dixon – Winner, 2022 NASSH Book Award, Monograph
Darcy Pattison and Rich Davis – Friday Comes on Tuesday – Winner, 2022 Susannah DeBlack Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Kenneth Barnes – The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas – Winner, 2022 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Kathleen Condray – Das Arkansas Echo – Winner, 2021 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
S. Charles Bolton – Fugitivism – Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Zaina Alsous – A Theory of Birds – Winner, 2020 The George Ellenbogen Poetry Award, Arab American Book Awards
Rachel B. Herrmann – To Feast on Us as Their Prey – Winner, 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, Edited Volume
Jess Williard – Unmanly Grief – Finalist, 2020 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award
Zaina Alsous – A Theory of Birds – Winner, 2020 Norma Farber Book Award
Andrew J. Milson – Arkansas Travelers – Winner, 2020 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Ángel García – Teeth Never Sleep – Finalist, 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Matthew Atencio, Becky Beal, E. Missy Wright, and ZáNean McClain – Moving Boarders – Winner, 2019 NASSS Outstanding Book Award
Phillip Douglas Howerton – The Literature of the Ozarks – Winner, 2019 Missouri Library Association Literary Award
Ángel García – Teeth Never Sleep – Winner, 2019 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Montserrat Piera – Forging Communities – Winner, 2019 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, best edited collection
Toby C. Rider and Kevin B. Witherspoon – Defending the American Way of Life – Winner, 2019 NASSH Book Award, Anthology
Ángel García – Teeth Never Sleep – Finalist, 2019 PEN Open Book Award
James L. Moses – Just and Righteous Causes – Winner, 2019 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Korydon H. Smith and Tomà Berlanda – Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda – Winner, 2019 EDRA Great Places Award
Patsy Watkins – It’s All Done Gone – Winner, 2018 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication from Preserve Arkansas
Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle – Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements – Winner, 2018 ASFS Book Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society.
Mildred Diane Gleason – Dardanelle and the Bottoms – Winner, 2018 Worthen Prize from the Central Arkansas Library System
Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith – San Francisco Bay Area Sports – Winner of the 2018 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection.
Guy Lancaster – Bullets and Fire – Winner, 2018 John William Graves Book Award
Diane Gleason – Dardanelle and the Bottoms – Winner, 2018 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Jeff Shannon – Shadow Patterns – Winner of the 2017 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication
Sanderia Faye – Mourner’s Bench – Winner of the 2017 Arkansiana Award, Arkansas Library Association
Frances Schenkkan – Mr. Stevens’s Secretary – Finalist for the John A. Robertson Award for First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters.
– Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop – Winner of the 2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.
Kenneth Barnes – Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas – Winner of the 2017 Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Sanderia Faye – Mourner’s Bench – Winner of the 2017 Philosophical Society of Texas Book Award, Fiction
Joe Wilkins – When We Were Birds – Winner, 2017 Oregon Book Awards
Sanderia Faye – Mourner’s Bench – Winner of the 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Debut Fiction
Minion K.C. Morrison – Aaron Henry of Mississippi – Winner of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award
Chris Elzey and David Wiggins – DC Sports – Winner of the 2016 NASSH Book Award for best edited collection.
Geoff Winningham – Of the Soil – Winner of the 2015 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication from the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas.
William Lindsey – Fiat Flux – Winner of the 2014 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Steve Scafidi – To the Bramble and the Briar – Finalist for the 2014 Balcones Poetry Prize
Katherine E. Young – Day of the Border Guards – Honorable Mention, 2014 North Carolina Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell Award
Charles Witsell and Gordon Wittenberg – Architects of Little Rock – Winner of the 2014 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Publication from the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas.
Mary Jane Warde – When the Wolf Came – 2014 Oklahoma Book Award, nonfiction
Vivienne Schiffer – Camp Nine – 2014 Susannah DeBlack Award
Spoma Jovanovic – Democracy, Dialogue, and Community Action – 2013 Winner of the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award from the Urban Communication Foundation, which recognizes an outstanding monograph that exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban communication; Winner of Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award; Winner of the Top Book Award for Case Studies in Communications Ethics from the Communication Ethics Division of the National Communication Association.
Zohra Saed and Sahar Muradi – One Story, Thirty Stories – 2012 Silver Medalist, IPPY Awards
Michael Walsh – The Dirt Riddles – Winnner of the 2011 Thom Gunn Award
Eric Leigh – Harm’s Way – Finalist for the 2011 Thom Gunn Award
Brooks Blevins – Arkansas/Arkansaw – Winner of the 2011 Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association
William Garrett Piston and Thomas P. Sweeney – Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Missouri in the Civil War – Winner, 2010 Missouri History Book Award
Grif Stockley – Ruled by Race – Winner of the 2010 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
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Daniel Donaghy – Start with the Trouble – Winner of the 2010 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence (given to a past finalist for their main poetry prize); finalist for the Milt Kessler Poetry Award
Grif Stockley – Ruled by Race – Winner of the 2009 Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association
James Allen Hall – Now You’re the Enemy – 2009 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Award; Finalist for the 2008 Independent Booksellers’ Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award; co-winner in the gay poetry category from Lambda Book Awards.
Gary Fincke – The Fire Landscape – Winner of the 2009 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence (given to a past finalist for their main poetry prize)
Dannye Romine Powell – A Necklace of Bees – Winner of the 2009 Brockman-Campbell Book Award.
Elizabeth Jacoway – Turn away Thy Son – Winner of the 2008 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
RT Smith – Outlaw Style – 2008 Virginia Poetry Book of the Year Award
Marc Smirnoff – The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing – Gold Award, Music Category, 2008 ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award Winners
Christopher Bursk – The First Inhabitants of Arcadia – 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize
Elizabeth Hadaway – Fire Baton – 2007 Library of Virginia Award for Poetry; Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference; Finalist for the 2007 Independent Booksellers’ Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award
Sidney McMath – Promises Kept – Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Elton Glaser – Here and Hereafter – Winner of the 2006 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry
Gary Fincke – Standing Around the Heart – Finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize
Patrick Phillips – Chattahoochee – 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Billy Higgins — A Stranger and a Sojourner – Cowinner of the 2005 Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Sidney McMath – Promises Kept – Winner of the 2004 Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association
Michelle Boisseau – Trembling Air – Finalist for 2004 PEN USA Award for Poetry
Dannye Romine Powell – The Ecstasy of Regret – Winner of the 2003 Oscar Arnold Young Award; Winner of the 2003 Brockman Campbell Award; Finalist for the 2003 Foreword Magazine Best of the Small Press Book Awards; Finalist in the poetry category for the 2003 Southeastern Booksellers Association Prize
Grif Stockley – Blood in their Eyes – Winner of the 2002 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Morris S. Arnold – The Rumble of a Distant Drum – 2001 Booker Worthen Literary Prize, 2002 S. G. Ragsdale Award, Arkansas Historical Association
S. Charles Bolton – Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless – Winner of the 1999 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
Virginia Jeans Laas – Love and Power in the Nineteenth Century – Winner, 1999 Missouri Conference on History Book Award
Leon Stokesbury – Autumn Rhythm – Winner of the 1997 Poets Prize
Randy Finley – From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom – 1997 Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History
Roy Reed – Faubus – 1997 New York Times Notable Book
Timothy P. Donovan, Willard B. Gatewood, Jr., and Jeannie M. Whayne – The Governors of Arkansas – 1996 Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History
Jeannie M. Whayne – Cultural Encounters in the Early South – 1996 Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History
Barvara Howes – Collected Poems, 1945-1990 – 1995 National Book Award Finalist
John L. Getman – Horses into the Night by Baltasar Porcel – 1995 Publishers Weekly Top 25 Books of the Year, 1995 Critics Choice Award from San Francisco Review of Books and Today’s First Edition
Carolyn Gray LeMaster – A Corner of the Tapestry – 1995 Arkansas Press Women’s Communications Contest Annual Honor Award, 1995 Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History, 1995 Arkansiana Award
Jean Sizemore – Ozark Vernacular Houses – 1995 Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History
Ben Johnson III – Fierce Solitude – 1995 Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History
Bobby Roberts and Carl Moneyhon – Portraits of Conflict series – 1995 Award of Merit from American Association for State and Local History
Bernard E. Powers – Black Charlestonians – 1995 Choice Outstanding Academic Book
Conger Beasley Jr. – We Are a People in This World – 1995 Spur Award in Contemporary Nonfiction from Western Writers of America, 1995 Nonfiction Finalist in the Society of Midland Authors 1995 Awards Contest
Paul Zimmer – Big Blue Train – Finalist, 1994 Society of Midland Authors Award
Elena B. Odio – Pres: The Story of Lester Young by Luc Delannoy – 1994 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award
Neil Compton – The Battle for the Buffalo River – 1993 Bush Administration Point of Light Recipient, 1994 Arkansiana Award
S. Charles Bolton – Territorial Ambition – 1994 Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History
Calvin R. Ledbetter, Jr. – Carpenter from Conway – 1994 Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History
Bobby Roberts and Carl Moneyhon – Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War – 1994 Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History
Jeannie M. Whayne and Williard B. Gatewood, Jr. – The Arkansas Delta – 1994 Virginia C. Ledbetter Prize
Morris S. Arnold – Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804 – 1994 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques from the Premier of France
Samual Hazo – The Past Won’t Stay Behind You – 1993 Pennsylvania State Poet
John Caldwell Guilds – Simms: A Literary Life – 1993 “Best Book” of South Carolina History, 1993 SCMLA Book Award, 1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book
Stanford Lyman – Militarism, Imperialism, and Racial Accommodation – 1993 Mid-South Sociological Association Book Award
John William Graves – Town and Country – 1993 Certificate of Commendation from American Association for State and Local History
Swannee Bennett and William B. Worthen – Arkansas Made, Volumes I & II – 1993 Award of Merit from American Association for State and Local History
Enid Shomer – This Close to Earth – 1992 Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry Magazine
Dick Davis – A Kind of Love – 1992 Ingram Merrill Poetry Award
Julie Suk — The Angel of Obsession —1992 Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award, 1993 Bess Hokin Prize, Poetry magazine
John DuVal – The Discovery of America – 1992 Harold Morton Landon Translation Prize
Douglas C. Jones – Come Winter – 1992 Owen Wister Award from the Western Writers of America
Edward Field, Gerald Locklin and Charles Stetler – A New Geography of Poets – 1992 AAUP Design Award
Tom T. Hall – The Laughing Man of Woodmont Coves – 1992 AAUP Design Award, 1992 Chicago Book Clinic Design Award
Marvin D. Jeter – Edward Palmer’s Arkansaw Mounds – 1992 Choice Outstanding Academic Book
Adele Logan Alexander – Ambiguous Lives – 1992 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights
Jan Bell Groh – Evening the Score – 1992 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights
Morris S. Arnold – Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804 – 1992 Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History
David Baker – Sweet Home, Saturday Night – 1991 Society of Midland Authors Award, 1991 Ohio Poet of the Year, 1995 Mary Carolyn Davies Award from the Poetry Society of America
John Fredrick Nims – Zany in Denim – 1991 Chicago Book Clinic Design Award
John William Graves – Town and Country – 1991 Arkansiana Award
Mescal Johnston – Home for the Holidays and Other Special Occasions – 19991 National Federation of Press Women, State and National Award Winner [cookbook]
R.V. Cassill – Collected Stories – 1990 AAUP Design Award [Designed by Brenda Zodrow]
John Clellon Holmes – Night Music – 1990 AAUP Design Award [Designed by Chiquita Babb]
Laurence Gonzales – The Still Point – 1990 Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award
Dick Davis – Epic and Sedition – 1989 Publication Award of the Persian Heritage Foundation
Jimmie N. Rogers – The Country Music Message – 1989 Chicago Book Clinic Design Award [Designed by Chang-hee Russell]
William Mills – The Arkansas – 1989 Chicago Book Clinic Design Award [Designed by Chiquita Babb]
Bobby Roberts and Carl Moneyhon – Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Arkansas in the Civil War – 1989 Arkansiana Award
Bobby Roberts and Carl Moneyhon – Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Arkansas in the Civil War – 1988 AAUP Design Award [Designed by Chiquita Babb]
Bobby Roberts and Carl Moneyhon – Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Arkansas in the Civil War – 1988 Chicago Book Clinic Award [Designed by Chiquita Babb]
Pauline Mortensen – Back Before the World Turned Nasty – 1988 Utah Arts Council Publication Prize
Debra Bruce – Sudden Hunger – 1988 Chicago Book Clinic Award [Designed by Chiquita Babb], 1988 Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award
Kenneth L. Smith – Sawmill – 1988 Virginia C. Ledbetter Prize
Daisy Bates – The Long Shadow of Little Rock – 1988 American Book Award
Kay Pritchett – Jonah and the Pink Whale – 1987 Casa de las Americas Prize
John DuVal – Long Blues in A Minor – 1986 Grand Prix Litteraire de la Ville de Lyon
Lewis Putnam Turco – Visions and Revisions in American Poetry – 1986 Melville Cane Award
Lily Peter – In the Beginning – 1984 Chicago Book Clinic Design Award
John DuVal – Cuckolds, Clerics and Countrymen – 1983 Choice Award
Ellen Gilchrist – In the Land of Dreamy Dreams – 1983 Saxifrage Prize