Memoir Division

• Gibran Saxon - The Silent Stars Go By
• Ben Baker - The Origins of Hawgin
• Karen Austin - Blind Trust: A Child's Legacy
• Ed Williams - Sex, Dead Dogs and Me
• Joe Frank Harris
  Joe Frank Harris
  Joe Frank Harris is an American conservative Democratic politician who served as the 78th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1983 to 1991....
  
   - Personal Reflections and Public Life
• Mills Lane
  Mills Lane
  Mills Bee Lane III is a retired boxing referee, a former boxer, was a two term Washoe County District Court Judge, and television personality...
  
   with Jedwin Smith - Let's Get It On
• John Lewis Walking With the Wind

Biography Division

• Andy Velasquez - Ol'Strom
• Mauriel Phillips Joslyn - A Meteor Shining Brightly
• Xavier Herbert
  Xavier Herbert
  Xavier Herbert was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country . He is considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature...
  
   - William Christenberry: The Early Years

Essay Division

• Neal Boortz
  Neal Boortz
  Neal A. Boortz, Jr. is an American Libertarian radio host, author, and political commentator. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Neal Boortz Show, airs throughout the United States on Dial Global . It is ranked seventh in overall listeners, with 4.25+ million per week...
  
   - The Terrible Truth About Liberals
• Matt Towery - Powerchicks
• D. Hadayai S. Majeed - Emerging Victorious
• Monica Simmons - 365 Positive Strategies - Single Parenting
• Frans de Waal
  Frans de Waal
  Fransiscus Bernardus Maria de Waal, PhD , is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research...
  
   - Chimpanzee Politics
• Jimmy Carter
  Jimmy Carter
  James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
  
   - The Virtues of Aging
• Jimmy Carter - Living Faith
• Rosalynn Carter
  Rosalynn Carter
  Eleanor Rosalynn Carter is the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. As First Lady and after, she has been a leading advocate for numerous causes, perhaps most prominently for mental...
  
   - Helping Someone With Mental Illness
• John Johnston - In-mation Multiplicity

Historical Division

• Tyler E. Bagwell - The Jekyll Island Club
• Barbara Duffey - Miracles From Heaven
• George C'de Baca - The Eden of La Cienega
• John E. Worth - Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida
• Ellen Griffith Spears - The Newtown Story
• Lewis Larson - The Georgia and South Carolina Coastal Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
• Ed Grisamore
  Ed Grisamore
  Ed Grisamore is an American journalist who has been a local news columnist for The Telegraph in Macon, Georgia, since 1996. He was the recipient of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, presented by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists...
  
   & Bill Buckley Once Upon a Whoopee
• Margaret Anne Barnes - The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama
• Philip L. Secrist - The Battle of Resaca
• Eleanor Ringel - Star Gazing Movies and Astrology
• Robin McDonald - Secrets Never Lie; The Death of Sara Tokars

Nature Writing Division

• Linton Wright McKnight - Birthflowers of the Landscape
• Don Hastings - Rich Harvest
• Lee May - Gardening Life

Cookbook Division

• Paula Deen - The Lady & Sons
• Clara Belle Hooks Eshmann - Remember When: Family, Friends, Recipes

Picture Book Division

• Evelyn Coleman - To Be a Drum
• Sandra & William Markle - Gone Forever
• Lynn Cullen - The Mightiest Heart - WINNER
• Bobbie Christmas & Dale Butler - The Legend of Codfish and Potatoes
• Monica Simmons, M.Ed - The Asterplanet Chronicles: Volumes 1-5

Middle Reader Division

• Charles Haddad - Meet Calliope Day
• Betsy Duffey - Cody's Secret Admirer
• Betsy Duffey - Spotlight on Cody
• Stan Applegate - The Devil's Highway

Young Adult Novel Division

• Nancy Butts - The Door in the Lake
• Brad Strickland - The Specter from the Magician's Museum
• Mauriel Joslyn - Shenandoah Autumn
• Erroll Bailey, M.D. - Mr. Dream Merchant

Children's Nonfiction Division

• Evelyn Coleman - The Riches of Oseola McCarty
• Naomi Shavin - Naomi Wants to Know
• Cathy Goldberg Fishman - On Hanukkah
• Sandra Markle - Outside and Inside Alligators
• Sandra Markle - Weird, Wacky Science
• Crystalline J. Prothro - I'm a Kid but I'm Not Kiddin
• Gerald J. Beard - Me, Myself & I

First Novel

• Brad Johnson - The Bird that Flies Highest
• Kimberly S. Phillips - Purpose Lies Within
• James Kilgo - Daughter of My People
• W. Lewis Johnson - Find a Way Home
• Mark Skinner - House Spouse
• Evelyn Coleman - What A Woman's Gotta Do
• Phyllis Alesia Perry - Stigmata
• William E. Boggan - Safe Sex

Fiction

• Beverly Conner - Dressed to Die
• Jim Grimsley - Mr. Universe and Other Plays
• Nora DeLoach - Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle
• Philip Lawson - Would it Kill You to Smile?
• Ruth Birmingham (aka Walter Sorrells) - Atlanta Graves
• Phillip DePoy - Too Easy
• Kathy Hogan Trocheck - Midnight Clear
• Virginia Lanier - Blind Bloodhound Justice
• Frank Manley - The Cockfighter

Poetry

• Barbara Ras - Bite Every Sorrow - WINNER
• Martin Lammon - News From Where I Live
• Thelma R. Hall - Sunlight and Stones
• Jo Byce - Contemplations of the Spirit
• Glenda Allen Chatham - Timepieces
• Doyle Spence - Poems My Father Never Read
• Margo Candelario - Take Me to the Water
• Michael Bishop - Time Pieces
• Memye Curtis Tucker - The Watchers
• Memye Curtis Tucker - Stormline
• Memye Curtis Tucker - Admit One
• Linda Lee Harper - The Wide Load
• Janet Wondra - Long Division