Condray Chosen as 2021 Worthen Literary Prize Recipient
Das Arkansas Echo: A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South now available.
A Theory of Birds Named Finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Winners of the Tufts Awards will be announced in April.
Fugitivism Wins 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize
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...
A Theory of Birds Wins Arab American Book Award
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...
Danielle Badra Wins 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
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...