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40th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award Dr. Bettie M. Sellers
Creative Nonfiction Final Judge: Dr. Blake Leland
Top Creative Nonfiction Winners, a Tie Valerie Boyd - Wrapped in Rainbows Evelyn Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee - And if I Perish
Essay Division Division Judge: Jennifer Wheelock
Division Winner Amy Blackmarr - Above the Fall Line
Biography Division Division Judge: Piper Huguley-Riggins
Division Winner Valerie Boyd - Wrapped in Rainbows
Memoir Division Division Judge: Jeremy Eisenberg
Division Winner Melissa Walker - Living on Wilderness Time
History Division Division Judge: Robert Giannetti
Division Winner Evelyn Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee - And if I Perish
Self-Help Division Division Judge: Maria Engberg
Division Winner Edna Lewis & Scott Peacock - The Gift of Southern Cooking
Inspirational/Religious Division Division Judge: Opal Moore
Division Winner Barbara Allen - Still Christian After All These Years
Poetry Judge: Dr. Lee Passarella
Winner Cecilia Woloch - Late
Fiction Judge: David Fulmer
Winner Terry Kay - The Valley of Light
Anthologies/Short Stories Judge: Beau Cutts
Winner Dr. Hugh Ruppersburg, Editor - After O'Connor
First Novel Judge: John Williams
Winner Jack Riggs - When the Finch Rises
Children's/Young Adult Literature Judge: Sara Harrell Banks
Winner David Bryant & George Davidson - Georgia's Amazing Coast
The Barry L. and Robert S. Taran Memorial Award Carly Heyman - My eXtra Special Brother
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