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Porter Prize
The Porter Prize, established in 1984 by the non-profit organization known as the Porter Fund Literary Prize, is awarded annually to a writer who has created a substantial body of work and has a significant connection with Arkansas. 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. Recipients * 2022 Mark Barr Fiction * 2021 Jen Fawkes Fiction * 2020 Geffrey Davis Poetry * 2019 Qui Nguyen Playwriting * 2018 Tyrone Jaeger Fiction * 2017 Padma Viswanathan Fiction * 2016 Sandy Longhorn Poetry * 2015 Davis McCombs Poetry * 2014 Mara Leveritt Non-Fiction * 2013 Pat Carr Fiction * 2012 Margaret Jones Bolsterli Non-Fiction * 2011 Bill Harrison Fiction * 2010 Bob Ford Playwriting * 2009 Roy Reed N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta. Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 34th most populous state, with a population of just over 3 million at the 2020 census. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, in the central part of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, including the Fayetteville� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Merritt
Constance Merritt is an American poet. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1966, and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock. She is also the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award. In 2001, Merritt received the and a fellowship from the at |
Leon Stokesbury
Leon Stokesbury (1945 Oklahoma City- November 13, 2018) was an American poet. Life He graduated from the University of Arkansas with an MFA, and earned his Ph.D. at Florida State University. He taught creative writing at Georgia State University Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is also the largest institution of hig .... Awards * 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Grant * 1998 Poets' Prize * 1990 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry from the Breadloaf Writers Conference * 1992 Distinguished Georgia Poet of the Year Award * 1985 Porter Prize Works"Unsent Letter to My Brother in His Pain", ''Good Times Santa Cruz''* * * * * * * Anthologies * * Editor * * 2nd edition. *The Light the Dead See: The Selected Poems of Frank Stanford. Ed. Leon Stokesbury. University of Arkansas Press 1991. References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Nordan
Lewis Nordan (August 23, 1939 – April 13, 2012) was an American writer. Nordan was born to Lemuel and Sara Bayles in Forest, Mississippi and grew up in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He received his B.A. at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, his M.A. in 1966 from Mississippi State University, and his PhD in 1973 from Auburn University in Alabama. After holding faculty positions at the University of Georgia and the University of Arkansas, he became in 1983 an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1983, at age forty-five, Nordan published his first collection of stories, ''Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair''. The collection established him as a writer in the Southern tradition of William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, and Flannery O'Connor. It also established a place for Nordan's fiction, the fictional Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta based loosely on Nordan's hometown of Itta Bena. After the short-story collection ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Harington (writer)
Donald Douglas Harington (December 22, 1935 – November 7, 2009) was an American author and visual artist. All but the first of his novels either take place in or have an important connection to "Stay More," a fictional Ozark Mountains town based somewhat on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent summers as a child. Biography Harington was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He lost nearly all of his hearing at age 12 due to meningitis. This did not prevent him from picking up and remembering the vocabulary and modes of expression among the Ozark denizens, nor in conducting his teaching career as an adult. Though he intended to be a novelist from a very early age, his course of study and his teaching career were in art and art history. He taught art history in Millbrook, New York, Putney, Vermont, and South Dakota before returning to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, his alma mater, where he taught for 22 years before his retirement on May 1, 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lake (poet)
Paul Lake (1951-2022) was an American poet, essayist, and professor at Arkansas Tech University. ''Another Kind of Travel'' won the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence. In addition, he won the Richard Wilbur Award for poetry in 2006. He graduated from Towson University with a B.A. and from Stanford University with an M.A. He had served as the poetry editor for ''First Things''. Works * * ''Walking Backward'', Story Line Press, 1999, *Cry Wolf: A Political Fable.' BenBella Books, 2008, ISBN The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency. An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition an ... 1-933771-42-9. Awards * ''Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence'' (1988) *''Richard Wilbur Award'' (2006) Novel * ''Among the Immortals,'' Story Line Press, 1994, References External links"Only Connect: A Conversation W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crescent Dragonwagon
Crescent Dragonwagon (née Ellen Zolotow, November 25, 1952, New York City) is a multigenre writer. She has written fifty books, including two novels, seven cookbooks and culinary memoirs, more than twenty children's books, a biography, and a collection of poetry. In addition, she has written for magazines including '' The New York Times Book Review'', ''Lear's'', '' Cosmopolitan'', '' McCall's'', and ''The Horn Book''. Dragonwagon and her late husband, Ned Shank, owned Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in the Ozark Mountain community of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Dragonwagon later co-founded the non-profit Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow, and was active in the cultural and literary life of Arkansas throughout the 31 years she lived in the state full-time. After Shank's death in 2000, Dragonwagon moved to her family's summer home in Vermont. Since the 2014 death of her subsequent partner, filmmaker-activist David R. Koff, with whom she lived in Vermont for a decad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Hollander Budy
Andrea Hollander (born April 28, 1947 in Berlin, Germany) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is ''Blue Mistaken for Sky'' (Autumn House Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in ''New Ohio Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Georgia Review'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''New Letters'', ''FIELD'', ''Five Points'', ''Shenandoah'', and ''Creative Nonfiction''. She was raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado. From 1991 till 2013, Hollander was writer-in-residence at Lyon College. She was married from 1976 to 2011. Hollander lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops at The Attic Institute for Arts and Letters and at Mountain Writers Series. Awards * 2014 Oregon Literary Fellowship * 2008 Subiaco Award for Literary Merit for Excellence in the Writing and Teaching of Poetry. * 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * 1993 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, for ''House Withou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleda Brown
Fleda Brown (born 1944 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American poet and author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson. Biography Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1978 she joined the University of Delaware English Department. There she founded the Poets in the Schools Program, which she directed for more than twelve years. She served as poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007, when she retired from the University of Delaware and moved to Traverse City, Michigan. She currently teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Her husband, Jerry Beasley, is also a retired English professor. One of Brown's poems, "If I Were a Swan", has been set for choir by Kevin Puts Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera, ''Silent Night''. Early life and education P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris S
Morris may refer to: Places Australia *St Morris, South Australia, place in South Australia Canada * Morris Township, Ontario, now part of the municipality of Morris-Turnberry * Rural Municipality of Morris, Manitoba ** Morris, Manitoba, a town mostly surrounded by the municipality * Morris (electoral district), Manitoba (defunct) * Rural Municipality of Morris No. 312, Saskatchewan United States ;Communities * Morris, Alabama, a town * Morris, Connecticut, a town * Morris, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Morris, Illinois, a city * Morris, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Morris, Minnesota, a city * Morristown, New Jersey, a town * Morris (town), New York ** Morris (village), New York * Morris, Oklahoma, a city * Morris, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Morris, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Morris, Kanawha County, West Virginia, a ghost town * Morris, Wisconsin, a town * Morris Township (other) ;Counties a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin John Brockmeier (born December 6, 1972) is an American writer of fantasy and literary fiction. Life and career Brockmeier was born in Hialeah, Florida and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991) and Southwest Missouri State University (1995). He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received his MFA in 1997, and lives in Little Rock. His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children's novels, and two fantasy novels. Brockmeier has won three O. Henry Prizes, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, the Booker Worthen Literary Prize, and the Porter Fund Literary Prize. Published works Story collections * '' Things That Fall from the Sky'' (New York City: Pantheon Books, 2002, ) * '' The View From The Seventh Layer'' (New York: Pantheon Books, 2008, ) * '' The Ghost Var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Abbott (author)
Shirley Jean Abbott Tomkievicz (November 16, 1934, Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S. – April 8, 2019, Portland, Oregon, U.S.) was a magazine editor, writer, journalist, and historian. Biography Shirley Abbott graduated in 1952 from high school in Hot Springs, Arkansas as class valedictorian and in 1956 with a bachelor's degree (''cum laude'') in English and French from Texas State College for Women (renamed in 1957 Texas Woman’s University). In 1956 she, as one of the winners of an essay contest, was one of twenty young women that ''Mademoiselle'' magazine's editors selected as paid guest editors in New York City for their College Issue. For a brief time from 1956 to 1957 she worked in New York City as an editorial assistant for Henry Holt and Company. She was for the academic year 1957–1958 a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Grenoble and for the academic year 1958–1959 a scholarship graduate student in the French department of Columbia University. She decided she did want t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
