2022 Annual Convention - "Welcome Back"

The 2022 Annual Convention will be held July 31 - August 2 at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa.

Alabama Author Awards Program and Award Winners

Each year, the Authors Awards Committee selects Alabama authors to receive awards in the following categories:

• Nonfiction
• Fiction
• Juvenile
• Young Adult
• Poetry

Lifetime Achievement Award

There are many prolific Alabama authors who are deserving of special recognition beyond the standard annual Alabama Author Award.  These authors produce works that, while they might not be the most literary titles of their award period, are important and reflect the richness of Alabama’s literary landscape. For these authors, the Committee may honor them with a Lifetime Achievement Award. This award will be bestowed upon an author when the committee has deemed him/her to have produced enough literary works to merit this recognition (i.e. not necessarily annually).

2022 Winners

• Nonfiction: Allison Moorer for Blood: A Memoir
• Fiction: Brandon Taylor for Real Life
• Juvenile: Irene Latham and Karim Shamsi-Basha for The Cat Man of Aleppo
• Young Adult: Randi Pink for Girls Like Us
• Poetry: Tina Mozzelle-Braziel for Known By Salt
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Aileen Kilgore Henderson

Congratulations to our winners!

Contact Paige Crumbley , 2022 Convention Chair, at [email protected] for more information.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2022 ALLA Convention!

Paige Crumbley
Access Services Librarian
Houghton Memorial LibraryHuntingdon College
1500 E Fairview Ave
Montgomery, AL 36106
Phone: 334.833.4422
Email: [email protected]