MLA LITERARY AWARD
The MLA Literary Award recognizes a Missouri writer or an individual who has written an outstanding book on some aspect of Missouri life. The Award may be given for a body of work or for an outstanding book written during a specific year.
NOMINATIONS: Electronic submission is required. The deadline for submissions for 2024 is 12/31/24.
Submissions for the 2026 award will be accepted starting July 1, 2025.
AWARD WINNERS
2024 - Nonfiction - Susan Croce Kelly, Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton
2021 - Curating Home: A Kansas City Poetry Anthology, Woodneath Press
2019 - The Literature of the Ozarks, Phillip Howerton
2012 - Kate Klise
2008 - Winter's Bone, Daniel Woodrell
2007 - David L. Harrison's body of work