Award Winners and Nominees
Folk Music and Song in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives
WINNER OF THE 2025 WAYLAND D. HAND BOOK PRIZE and INAUGURAL SPECIAL AWARD WINNER FOR SCHOLARLY EXCELLENCE AND CULTURAL IMPACT from the HISTORY and FOLKLORE SECTION of the AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
Between ...
All the Things We Didn't Say
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing
In this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired ...
Wichita Blues
NAMED A 2025 KANSAS NOTABLE BOOK BY THE STATE LIBRARY OF KANSAS
In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, ...
Larry Brown
Winner of the 2011 Eudora Welty Prize
Larry Brown (1951–2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them—his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Ric ...
Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History
2025 Winner of Best History in the category of Best Historical Research in Record Labels or General Recording Topics from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Featuring the first extensive Hanna-Barbera ...
Watershed
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing
The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, ...
What Became of Dr. Smith
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Visual Arts
Artist Noah Saterstrom (b. 1974) grew up aware of a mystery in his family’s story. No living relatives knew what had h ...
Maverick Feminist
Winner of the 2024 Eudora Welty Prize
Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Nonfiction
Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied ...
Out of the Blue
VOTED BEST BLUES BOOK OF 2024 IN THE LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE READERS’ POLL
Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician’s dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist b ...
Bayou Harvest
Winner of the 2025 James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society
To inhabitants of the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana, food is much more than nourishment. The acts of gathering, preparing, ...