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View Comments In March, national critics traveled to Shreveport to review the collection of submitted works from literary, performing, and visual artists across northwest Louisiana.  On March 26, the critics announced the names of the artists to receive the Critic's Choice Award in each category, which came with a $2,000 commission to return in a year's time to present with a solo show of a new, original full body of work to present to the critic(s) and audience.  The competition is a part of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council's Critical Mass 9, a series designed for regional artists' de...

Bennett, an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, has published three books of poetry and literary criticism. Khoury, whose plays have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference,  just graduated from medical school. The awards are unique in that the nominees are not aware that they are being considered until the winners are actually announced. "It is absolutely surreal," said Bennett, a new father, upon learning he had won. "I was excited that we could finally fix the roof."...

The UH alum will read for his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, The Tradition, on April 26. By Margaret Carmel 4/23/2021 at 6:00am To many, Jericho Brown’s poetry speaks to this particular moment of civil rights activism condemning police brutality. But that’s not all there is to his work, though. Brown, 45, hit his literary zenith last year when he took home the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his third collection,  The Tradition, an earthquakingly masterful work that bends the traditional conventions of poetic form to confront many forms of evil in our society, fro...

2:39 Unlike previous years, where the event was held over one weekend on Stephens College’s campus, this year it started on January 19. Unbound has held livestreamed panels nearly every Tuesday and Thursday for the past three months since. More than 60 authors called in from across the world to talk about representation in publication, the changing world of young adult fiction and how authors got their debut novels published, among many other topics. These panels were held over Zoom and simultaneously livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook. Last year’s Unbound was cancelled due to the coron...

COLUMBIA - While on a book tour in 2013, Alex George, learned how much the Columbia community loves festivals. For example, thousands attend the annual True/False Festival. And that sparked an idea for George to create a book festival in Columbia.  "Writers spend most of their time at a desk, sort of staring at a computer screen and it was kind of nice being in front of a crowd and talking to people and engaging with them," George said, the founder of the Unbound Book Festival. George got a group of local educators, librarians, book-sellers and writers together as his starting festival com...