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The $5000 prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Arkansas. (The non-profit organization also awards a lifetime achievement award every five years and an annual scholarship to a student in the University of Central Arkansas Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program.) The Porter Prize was founded in honor of Ben Drew Kimpel.
The University of Arkansas's M.F.A. program has graduated a number of notable writers, including Lewis Nordan, John Dufresne, Steve Yarbrough, and more. In 2004, the state held the first annual Arkansas Literary Festival in Little Rock, attracting famous writers from around the nation. The Porter Prize is the state's most prestigious literary ...
Shirley Jackson Award – for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic, since 2007. Lord Ruthven Award – for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature – since 1989
The University of Georgia Libraries' example is one where living author arwardees would be invited to campus to give a speech, and creators of the program hoped it would attract donors. [1] John D'Agata, in his book Halls of Fame: Essays (2001) commented on the phenomenon of halls of fame. Per a review of the book, "In these refreshingly bold ...
The Riots (U. of Georgia Press, 2011) [1] is a book of essays which won the 2010 the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction, judged by Luis Alberto Urrea. [6] It also won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. [7] Her 2023 collection Desire Museum was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual ...
She lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She was a professor of creative writing and contemporary fiction at the University of Arkansas. [2] Her work was noted for its focus on culture and society in the South. [2] Gilchrist was heard regularly as a commentator on National Public Radio's Morning Edition from 1984 to ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Essay awards (6 P) F. Fiction awards (7 C, 78 P) ... Young adult literature awards (2 C, 34 P)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay: For a book of original collected essays 1990 Active PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature: To honor an author of a major work of Paraguayan literature and the English translator. 2012 Active PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award