[2] The 2024 winners include the following categories: nonfiction, fiction, debut, genre, poetry, young adult, middle grade, children's, and drama.

Honors were awarded to authors in the three main categories of national, regional, and emerging, with some years including recognition for lifetime achievement and general excellence.

The 2020 awards included books in eight categories and recognized the Indiana Writers Center as Literary Champion.

[3] Following is a subset of the awards granted, focusing just on top honors that are for authors' complete lifetime works.

These awards, for entire bodies of authors' complete work, are: (children’s picture books) (middle-grade fiction)