In 1980 Sunstone inaugurated a contest to provide consistent, quality fiction. Later, the children of D. K. and Brookie Brown began underwriting the awards in memory of their parents.

Sunstone Fiction Contest--Awards by Year

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994

1980

Bruce Jorgensen. "Born of the Water." 5:1/20; also published in Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992.

Linda Sillitoe. "The Long Walk." 5:2/30.

Patricia Hart Molen. "Miracle Pageant."

Rebecca Cornwall. "Drowning." 5:2/15.

Dean Hughes. "Eulogy."

Bela Petsco. "Blackness of the Darkness."

1981

Eileen Gibbons Kump."The Ladder." 6:1/50.

Marla Zollinger Russell. "What Wondering Brings." 6:1/53.

Donald R. Marshall. "Lavender Blue," 6:2/45; also published in Greening Wheat: Fifteen Mormon Short Stories. SLC: Orion Books, 1983.

Ann Edwards Cannon. "Separate Prayers." 6:6/32.

Patricia Hart Molen. "The Growler and Sandra House." 6:2/11.

Linda Sillitoe. "Demons," 6:3/40.

1982

Award in Fiction--First Place

Joseph Peterson. "The Genealogy of Della B. Paulsen." 7:1/7.

Lynne Larsen. "Bawdy and Soul." 7:2/25.

Alison Booth. "Aunt Teo." 7:3/56.

Carolyn Campbell. "Waiting to Be Amazed."

Ann Edwards Cannon. "Merlin."

Myrna Marler. "The White House Next Door."

Linda Sillitoe. "Borderland," 7:6/34.

1983

Dian Saderup. "Out There." 8:1&2/18.

Phyllis Barber. "Ida's Sabbath."8:3/39.

Karen Rosenbaum. "After the Flood, Me." 8:4/7.

Cheryl Sharp. "The Halfway Girl." 8:6/34.

Dick Beeson. "Unstrung Amber Beads." 8:1&2/42.

Pauline Mortensen. "This Sure As Hell Ain't No Zion."

Joseph Peterson. "The Sure Word.'' 9:1/27.

1984

Michael Ray Solomon. "The Sheet of Our True Lord Jesus.'' 10:1/28.

Dale Bjork. "Conversion.'' 10:4/28.

Linda Sillitoe. "Bishop Ted.'' 10:2/23; also published in Windows on the Sea and Other Stories. SLC: Signature Books, 1989.

Phyllis Barber. "Windows.'' 10:11/24.

Patricia Hart. "Don't Call Me Dolores; Call Me Lola.'' 10:6/27.

Margaret R. Munk. "A Proposal.'' 10:9/24.

1985

Levi Peterson. "Sunswath.'' 10:12/13; also in Night Soil: New Stories. SLC: Signature Books, 1990.

Craig Witham. "Love Daddy Love.'' 11:2/19.

Michael Fillerup. "Visions.'' 11:3/12; also published in Visions and Other Stories. SLC: Signature Books, 1990.

John Bennion. "A Court of Love.'' 12:2/30; also published in Breeding Leah and Other Stories. SLC: Signature Books, 1991.

Joan Shaw. "Grief.''

Linda Sillitoe. "The Spiral Stair.''11:4/21; also published in Windows on the Sea and Other Stories.

1986

Stewart A. Shelline. ``When the Rains Came Down the River.'' 12:1/27.

Michael Fillerup. ``A Game of Inches.''12:5/23;also published in Visions and Other Stories.

Helen Walker Jones. "Going through the List." 13:2/33

Paris Anderson. ``You--A Missionary Story.'' 11:5/18.

Margot Cheney. ``What Comfort This Sweet Sentence . . . '' 14:1/34.

Craig Witham.``Leap of Faith.''

1987

Michael Fillerup. ``Family Plantation Day.'' 14:2/26;also published in Visions and Other Stories.

Kira Pratt Davis. ``The Dedication.'' 13:5/22.

Harlow S. Clark. ``The Covenant Breaker.''

Julie J. Nichols. ``Pennyroyal, Cohosh, Rue.'' 12:3/13.

1988

Award in Fiction--First Place

Susan Howe. ``Getting to Disneyland.'' 14:4/31.

Lewis Horne. ``Mona's Family.'' 13:3/34.

Michael Fillerup. ``Daddy-Daughter Date;'' also published in Visions and Other Stories.

1989

Michael Fillerup. ``Things of This World.'' 16:7/45.

Hodgson Van Wagoner. ``Reflections of the Lost and Found.'' 15:2/42.

J. R. Rodriguez. ``Manhattan.'' 15:1/28.

1990

Kristen Smart Rogers. ``Birth of the Blues.'' 16:3/24.

Larene Rowley Blaine. ``Nightwatch.''

Kristen Smart Rogers.``Looking for God.'' 15:5/26.

Margaret Young.``In Search of Spilled Rootbeer.'' 16:4/30.

Hodgson Van Wagoner.``Our Palace of Green & Gold.'' (short short story) 15:6/17.

1991

Lisa Bolin Hawkins.``Muddy, Rising Waters.'' 16:6/54.

Rae Andrus. ``Not Getting Pregnant.'' 16:8/40.

Afton Pettigrew. ``In a Summer Sky.'' 16:5/28.

Penny Allen. ``Representation.'' 15:5/15.

1992

Michael Fillerup. ``How We Do Death.''

Deborah Rossiter. ``A Mormon Story.''

Angela Wood. ``Snake Man.''

Penny Allen. ``Mission Rules.'' (short short story) 16:7/29.

Michael Fillerup. ``Prodigy.'' (short short story) 16:2/32.

1993

Michael Fillerup. ``Missionary Farewell'' (short short story).

Brady Udall. ``Beautiful Places.''

Phyllis Barber. ``The Fiddler and the Wolf.''

Pauline Mortenson. ``The Gledhill Foot and the Reflexologist.''

Carol Quist. ``By Their Fruits.''

Margaret Blair Young. ``Project'' (short short story).

Margaret Blair Young. ``Zoo Sounds''.

1994

Julie Nichols. ``The Fifth Element.''

Joanna Brooks. ``Things I Imagined; Things I Seen.''

Julie Nichols. ``Jesus Laughing.''

Lara Candland. ``Venesuela.''