Franklin and Fennelly are the first co-authors to receive the Hall-Waters Prize.
Award-winning novelist, Tom Franklin, and Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, received Troy University’s Hall-Waters Prize on Friday, April 17 at the Troy Campus.
The day began with Franklin and Fennelly meeting with Dr. Kirk Curnutt’s English senior seminar class for a discussion in the Lamar P. Higgins Ballrooms and responding to…
Beth Ann Fennelly served as the Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021 and Tom Franklin is an award-winning novelist.
Award-winning novelist, Tom Franklin, and Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, will both receive the Hall-Waters Prize from Troy University on Friday, April 17.
Franklin and Fennelly, who have been married since 2001, will discuss their individual and collaborative works at 9:30 a.m. in the Lamar P. Higgins Ballrooms in the Trojan…
Hall-Waters Prize winner Jennifer Horne and her husband, Don Noble, are shown with Dr. Kirk Curnutt and students from his English senior seminar class
Award-winning author and former Poet Laureate of Alabama Jennifer Horne received Troy University’s Hall-Waters Prize on April 25.
The poet and nonfiction author began the day reading some of her works and answering questions from students in Dr. Kirk Curnutt’s English senior seminar class during a presentation in the Lamar P. Higgins Ballrooms on the…
Horne, an award winning poet and nonfiction author, is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Award-winning poet and nonfiction author Jennifer Horne, a native of Little Rock, Ark., will receive Troy University’s Hall-Waters Prize on April 25.
Horne, who served as the Poet Laureate of Alabama from 2017 to 2021, will read selections from her recent biography, “Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author” (2023),…
