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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 ...
Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, to Ernest Burdette and Ann Jeanette Miller Williams.He was educated in Arkansas, first enrolling at Hendrix College in Conway and eventually transferring to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where he published his first collection of poems, Et Cetera, while getting his bachelor's degree in biology.
The "Academy Awards model" was introduced in 1980 under the name TABA, The American Book Awards. The program expanded from seven literary awards to 28 literary and 6 graphics awards. After 1983, with 19 literary and 8 graphics awards, the Awards practically went out of business, to be restored in 1984 with a program of three literary awards.
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Horne was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... She has also been the recipient of the Tuscaloosa Arts Council's Druid City Literary Arts Award. [11]
In 2005, the OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology recognized Rivers as an Arkansas Peace and Justice Hero. Rivers founded the Goddess Festival in Fayetteville in 2008. It is a week-long event held annually in March. In 2012, she won the Golden Crown Literary Award in speculative fiction for the novel, The Smuggler, the Spy and the Spider. [1]
Unlike the Pulitzer Prizes for literature or journalism, or the Newbery Medal for children's literature, these awards are not focused upon a single work published. Unlike, say the Academy Awards, the writers nominated might not be present at an awards ceremony for many of these. The award is an honor that may be appreciated, but nominees might ...