1996  AML Awards

Biography
Marian Robertson Wilson for Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies

Children's Literature
Rick Walton for You Don't Always Get What You Hope For

Criticism
Bruce W. Jorgensen for "Heritage of Hostility: The Mormon Attack on Fiction in the 19th Century";"Roughly One of the R's: Some Notes of a BYU Fiction Teacher (with a Pedantry of Endnotes)"

Drama
Tim Slover for Joyful Noise

Novel
Judith Freeman for A Desert of Pure Feeling

Personal Essay
Kenneth O. Kemp for "3/4-inch Marine Ply"

Poetry
Leslie Norris for Collected Poems

Short Fiction
Paul Rawlins for No Lie Like Love: Stories

Young Adult Literature
Pat Bezzant for Angie