Jun 16, 2020 | Award, News
The Georgia Writers Association (GWA) announced via Facebook Live the winners and finalists of the 56th annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards. Poet Leon Stokesbury was awarded posthumously awarded the lifetime achievement award. Leon Stokesbury was born in Oklahoma...
May 28, 2020 | Award, Food and Foodways, Food Studies, News
To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann, has won the 2020 book award for an edited volume from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. The ASFS Book Award recognizes an outstanding book about...
May 7, 2020 | Award, News, Poetry and Literature
Zaina Alsous has won the 2020 Norma Farber Award for her collection A Theory of Birds. The Norma Farber Book Award honors a first book of original poetry written by a living author and is given by the Poetry Society of America. The Judge was Matthew Shenoda. “In...