Articles/Essays
First Prize: Richard Sears: The Days of Darkness (Spring)
Second Prize: Eileen McCullough Johnson: More Than Blarney (Winter)
Third Prize: Vivian Watts: Not as Sweet as Apple Dumplings... (Winter)
Fiction
First Prize: Sharyn McCrumb: Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Fall)
Second Prize: Laura Weddle: One Man's Treasure (Winter)
Third Prize: Agnes Scott Stevens: Bringing Eulene Home (Winter)
Poetry
First Prize: James Still: Mine is a Wide Estate, and Aunt Carrie (Spring)
Second Prize: Jim Minick: The Brier's Last Days (for Jim Wayne Miller) (Spring)
Third Prize: Billy C. Clark: Spiders' Way, Run Me a River, Elegy in a Mountain Graveyeard, Hound, Horn and Popping Wood (Spring)
Judges
Sandra Ballard
Bruce Lawson
Danny Miller
Dorothy Schnare