2011
Alex Beard, Monkey See, Monkey Draw (children's)
Daniel Black, Perfect Peace (fiction) - www.danielblack.org
Melissa Blackburn, Cameo (poetry) - www.newplainspress.com/New_Featured_Authors.html
Jane Bradley, You Believers (fiction) - www.janebradley.net
Rick Bragg, The Most They Ever Had (memoir)
Jim Buford, The House Across the Road (fiction)
Natalie Chanin, Alabama Stitch Book (nonfiction) - alabamachanin.com
Mark Childress, Georgia Bottoms (fiction) - www.crazyinalabama.com
William Cobb, The Last Queen of the Gypsies (fiction)
Hunter Cole, The Legs Murder Scandal (nonfiction)
Tony Crunk, New Covenant Bound (poetry) - www.tonycrunk.com
Miles DeMott, Family Meeting (fiction) - http://familymeetingnovel.com/Home.html
Penn Dilworth, book appraiser
Ted Dunagan, Secret of the Satilfa (young adult fiction) - www.teddunagan.com
Ron Ellis, In That Sweet Country: Uncollected Writings of Harry Middleton (essays) - www.ron-ellis.com
Dan Farmer, Black Crow (singer/songwriter) - www.danfarmersongs.com
Linda Fisher, Runaway Will (young adult) - http://rfwp.com/7208.htm
Richard Goodman, A New York Memoir (memoir) - www.richardgoodman.org
Wayne Greenhaw, Fighting the Devil in Dixie (nonfiction) - www.waynegreenhaw.com
David Haynes, Motorcycling Alabama: Fifty Ride Loops Through the Heart of Dixie (nonfiction)
Roy Hoffman, Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations (essays)
Richard Horan, Seeds (non fiction) - http://literaryseeds.typepad.com/
Randall Horton, The Definition of Place (poetry) - www.randallhorton.com
Richie Jean Jackson, The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement (memoir)
Les Johnson, Back to the Moon (science fiction) - www.lesjohnsonauthor.com
Christy Jordan, Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family (cookbook)
Eric Litwin, Pete the Cat (children’s) - www.ericlitwin.com
Michael Knight, The Typist (fiction) - www.michaelknightfiction.com
P.T. Paul, To Live and Write in Dixie (poetry) negativecapabilitypress.squarespace.com
Roger Reid, Time (young adult fiction) - rogerreidbooks.com
Art Roche, Art for Kids: Cartooning (children's)
Sonia Sanchez, Morning Haiku (poetry) - soniasanchez.net
Janet Simpson, We Are Not Lovers (with Delicate Cutters) (musician)
Marc Smirnoff, The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing (nonfiction)
Erica Spindler, Blood Vines (fiction) - www.ericaspindler.com
Patricia Sprinkle, Friday's Daughter (fiction)
Chandra Sparks Taylor, The Promise (young adult fiction) - chandrasparkstaylor.com
Keith Thomson, Twice a Spy (fiction) - keiththomsonbooks.com
E. E. Wade, eyestodewhurld (poetry) - eewadethewriter.com
Dean Faulkner Wells, Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi (nonfiction)
Jake Adam York, Persons Unknown (poetry) - www.jakeadamyork.com
2010
Ace Atkins
Elise Blackwell
Rick Bragg
Pearl Cleage
Kirk Curnutt
DeLana R. A. Dameron
Sharon L. Davis
Foster Dickson
Frye Gaillard
A. M. Garner
Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna
Virginia Gilbert
Susan Gregg Gilmore
Robert Gray
Carolyn Haines
Wade Hall
Martha Hawkins
Rachel Hawkins
Patti Callahan Henry
Robert Hicks
Sean Hill
Ron Hogan
Suzanne Hudson
Jennifer Horne
Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Mary Kaiser
Irene Lathan
Hank Lazer
Eric Litwin and James Dean
Charlie Lucas
David Magee
Mindy Merrell and R. B. Quinn
Mary Carol Moran
Mary Ann Neely
Don Noble
James L. Noles Sr.
Kathy L. Patrick
Wendy Reed
Ginger Rue
Pat Boyd Rumore
Julie Schoerke
Karin Slaughter
Kathleen Thompson
Melinda Rainey Thompson
Sue Brannan Walker
Daniel Wallace
Karen Spears Zacharias
Carol Prejean Zippert