Poetry
1st - "medea" - Chad Trainer
2nd - "Friends" - Pat Dunlap
Finalists:
"Sands of Time" - Joe Nunnelee
"precision instrument" - Chad Trainer

Nonfiction Article
1st - "The Longest Hour in Television" - Art Holliday
2nd - "Breaker Boys" - Mara Lou Hawse""
Finalists:
 "Our Friend Notch" - Pat Dunlap
 "Soviet Union, Impressions" - Joan Spencer

Book-Length Nonfiction
1st -  "Last Will & Testament" - Walter R. Gouin
1st (tie) -  "Proof Text of the Gospels" - Walter R. Gouin
2nd - "Sugar Hill:  The Way It Was" - Theresa Baker Mulligan
Finalist:
"Rising Stars & Ozark Constellations" - Vicki Cox

Screenplay
1st - "Highlander: First Time" - Teleplay by Connie Bennett,
Story by Connie Bennett & Jacquelyn Close
2nd - "Maryland" - Jennifer Mattingly
Finalists:
"Mending Hearts"  -  Brad Lemonds
"Playing by the Rules"  - Connie Bennett

Genre Fiction
1st - "The Remnant"  - Michael LaMarche
2nd - "The Canal"  - William Cannady
Finalists:
"Dresden Chronicles" - Jim Butcher
"Thanksgiving Mystery" - Ellen Gray Massey

Short Story
1st - "Queen of the Copy Machine" - Jeanie Stewart
2nd - "Reach for the Golden Ring" - Jan Fellers
Finalists:
"Little Chief" - James C. Bird
"Touchstone" - Edward R. Close

Romance
1st - "She's A Lady" - J.P. Whatley
2nd - "Prairie Promises" - Lana Kelley
Finalists:
"Bringing Elizabeth Home" - Linda Cope
"Peace Will Come" - Linda Cope
Children's

Children's Picture Book
1st - "Gilly, the Seasick Fish" - Susann Batson
2nd - "A Duck at the Dog Pound" - Susann Batson
Finalists:
"Harry & Molly in: 'A Pailful of Trouble' " - Jacquelyn Close
"Oscar, the Pink Caterpillar" - Mara Lou Hawse

Mystery/Suspense
1st - "Doppleganger" - Trudy Coleman
2nd - "Deadly Relations" - Denise Swanson Stybr
Finalists:
"The Crow Won't Tell" - Milana Dietrich
"Chokeberry Days Murder" - Denise Swanson Stybr

Mainstream Fiction
1st - "The Blood Flag" - Milana Dietrich
2nd - "No Greater Love" - Linda Cope & Don Clair
Finalists:
"Devil's Breath" - John V. Harness
"Four Covers" - Joan Spencer