Jan 28, 2021 | African American Studies, American History, Arkansas and the Region, Award, News
Fugitivism: Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820–1860 by S. Charles Bolton has won the 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or...
Aug 31, 2020 | Award, News, Poetry and Literature
A Theory of Birds: Poems by Zaina Alsous has won the 2020 George Ellenbogen Poetry Award from the Arab American National Museum, part of the Arab American Book Awards. The Arab American National Museum (AANM) is the first and only museum in the United States devoted...
Aug 10, 2020 | Award, Etel Adnan Poetry Series, News, Poetry and Literature
Danielle Badra has been named the winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her collection Like We Still Speak, which will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in the fall of 2021. Badra, who is of Syrian and Lebanese heritage, was born and raised in...
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...
