• How the Sun Shines on Noise, by Matthew Deshe Cashion
• Portisville, by Steve Cushman
• Bulletproof Girl, by Quinn Dalton
• The Stone Carver, by Julia Nunnally Duncan
• Early Leaving, by Judy Goldman
• Another Son of Man, by Tim McLaurin
• Shuffletown, USA, by Judy Rozzelle
• Drives Like a Dream, by Porter Shreve
• Change Baby, by June Spence

• Second Sunday, by Michelle Andrea Bowen
• Girls with Hammers, by Cynn Chadwick
• Family Lines, by Gwendoline Y. Fortune
• Jilted by Death, by Lynette Hall Hampton
• Poe & Fanny, by John May
• Bloodlines of Shackleford Banks, by B.J. Mountford
• Virginia Lovers, by Michael Parker
• Where the Water-Dogs Laughed: The Story of the Great Bear, by Charles F. Price
• The Pink Institution, by Selah Saterstrom
• The Past is Never Dead, by David Schulman
• Cassandra Lost, by Joanna Catherine Scott
• The Anchor: P. Moore Proprietor, by Blonnie Bunn Wyche
• Roger Maris Died Yesterday, by Jon M. Young

• Mariah of the Spirits, by Sherry Austin
• Mr. Lincoln's Wars, by Adam Braver
• High Strung, by Quinn Dalton
• Mitchell's Peak, by Robert Dellinger
• Blue Ridge Shadows, by Julia Nunnally Duncan
• The Trellis and the Seed, by Jan Karon
• Costly Habits, by Peter Makuck
• Slow Dollar, by Margaret Maron
• The Last Girls, by Lee Smith
• The Guardian, by Nicholas Sparks
• Ghosts of Salem, by Richard W. Starbuck
• 101 Borden Street, by Susan Eileen Walker

The Practical Heart, by Allan Gurganus

Body of a Girl, by Leah Stewart

The Slow Way Back, by Judy Goldman

Freedom's Altar, by Charles F. Price

Where Trouble Sleeps, by Clyde Edgerton

Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier

What the Deaf-Mute Heard, by G. Dan Gearino

Cured by Fire, by Tim McLaurin

The Geographical Cure: Novellas and Stories, by Michael Parker

Favorite Sons, by John Russell

Forms of Shelter, by Anglea Davis-Gardner

(Tie) A Cure for Dreams, by Kaye Gibbons and Magician, by Peter Turchi

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, by Allan Gurganus

Fair and Tender Ladies, by Lee Smith

The Magic We Do Here, by Lawrence Rudner

Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit, by Marianne Gingher

Kate Vaiden, by Reynolds Price

Last One Home, by John Ehle

Private Contentment, by Reynolds Price

Oral History, by Lee Smith

Lessons, by Lee Zacharias

The Source of Light, by Reynolds Price

The Flim-Flam Man and Other Stories, by Guy Owen

Cora, by Daphne Athas

All Angels Cry, by Mary Sheppard

Shadow of the Mountain, by Sylvia Wilkinson

The Surface of Earth, by Reynolds Price

The Changing of the Guard, by John Ehle

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories, by Doris Betts

The Gaudy Place, by Fred Chappell

Entering Ephesus, by Daphne Athas

Time of Drums, by John Ehle

Journey for Joedel, by Guy Owen

The Nazi Hunter, by Bynum Shaw

A Killing Frost, by Sylvia Wilkinson

The Road, John Ehle

Tenants of the House, by Heather Ross Miller

The Scarlet Thread, by Doris Betts

The Land Breakers, by John Ehle

The Sand Pebbles, by Richard McKenna

A Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price

The Fleet Rabble, by Frank Borden Hanes

On a Lonesome Porch, by Ovid Williams Pierce

Band of Brothers, by Ernest Frankel

Maggie-Now, by Betty Smith

Tall Houses in Winter, by Doris Betts

A Piece of Luck, by Frances Gray Patton

Good Morning, Miss Dove, by Frances Gray Patton

The Plantation, by Ovid Williams Pierce

The Finer Things of Life, by Frances Gray Patton

Inglis Fletcher (for Outstanding Literary Achievement)
Paul Green (for Outstanding Literary Achievement)