Marilyn Brown Novel Award
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The Marilyn Brown Novel Award is an occasional award given to the best unpublished novel focusing on realistic cultural experiences of the Utah Region submitted for consideration. The award includes a $1000 honorarium.
The award was founded by Marilyn Brown and her husband to encourage quality fiction focused on regional Mormon experience. Beginning in 2000, the award was presented every other year by the Association for Mormon Letters
. Beginning with the 2009 award, the Utah Valley University's English Department has stewardship over the award. They have broadened the award's scope to all fiction about the Utah region and intend to make it an annual award. The award has a $30000 endowment.
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The award was founded by Marilyn Brown and her husband to encourage quality fiction focused on regional Mormon experience. Beginning in 2000, the award was presented every other year by the Association for Mormon Letters
Association for Mormon Letters
The Association for Mormon Letters is a nonprofit founded in 1976 to promote quality writing "by, for, and about Mormons." The broadness of this definition of Mormon literature has led the AML to focus on a wide variety of work that has sometimes been neglected in the Mormon community...
. Beginning with the 2009 award, the Utah Valley University's English Department has stewardship over the award. They have broadened the award's scope to all fiction about the Utah region and intend to make it an annual award. The award has a $30000 endowment.
Past winners
2000- Vernal Promises by Jack Harrell
2002
- Mormonville by A. Jeff Call
2004
- House Dreams by Janean Justham
2006
- The Coming of Elijah by Arianne CopeArianne CopeArianne Cope is a Latter-day Saint novelist.Cope has written many articles for such LDS Church publications as the New Era.Cope has been a recipient of the Marilyn Brown Novel Award from the Association for Mormon Letters for her novel The Coming of Elijah...
- Honorable Mention: Seeker by Donald Marshall
2008
- Rift by Todd Robert PetersenTodd Robert PetersenTodd Robert Petersen was born in Moses Lake, Washington on August 17, 1969. He is a fiction writer and an academic currently based at Southern Utah University. He and his wife Alisa have two children....
- Honorable Mention: Voices at the Crossroads by Helynne Hollstein Hansen
- Honorable Mention: Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys by Janet Kay Jensen
2009
- Avenging Saints by John Bennion
2010
- Across a Harvested Field by Robert GobleRobert GobleRobert Goble was an English harpsichord builder.The son of Harriet and John Goble, a wheelwright, he grew up in Thursley, Surrey. He first encountered pioneering early-instrument-maker Arnold Dolmetsch and his family in the autumn of 1917, when they took refuge from London air raids by renting a...
2011
- Putting up Stars by Susan Auten