From VQR:
McFadden’s Hardscrabble Wins Poetry Award
By Kevin Morrissey
June 30th, 2008
Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble, one of the inaugural titles in the VQR Poetry Series, published by the University of Georgia Press, has just been awarded 2008 Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry. The award, which recognizes work by emerging poets living in and writing on the South, will be presented in April 2009 at the Arts & Education Council Conference on Southern Literature in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Past winners include Charlotte Matthews and Thorpe Moeckel.
Nice! McFadden and Angie Hogan will be reading from their work on August 20 at 7p.m. at WriterHouse. The public is invited.
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