{"id":27183,"date":"2019-06-19T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=27183"},"modified":"2019-08-02T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:37:01","slug":"utc-english-professor-wins-inaugural-distinguished-writing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/utc-english-professor-wins-inaugural-distinguished-writing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC English professor wins inaugural distinguished writing award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-attachment-id=\"27185\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/utc-english-professor-wins-inaugural-distinguished-writing-award\/photo-richard-jackson\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S3 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1317579318&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Photo Richard Jackson\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27185\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson-610x458.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/06\/Photo-Richard-Jackson-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A UTC professor of English has been awarded the inaugural Barnett Prize for Local Distinguished Author from the Southern Lit Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Jackson, UT National Alumni Association Distinguished Service professor, says being chosen \u201cmeans a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes me realize how many really fine writers there are in Chattanooga and grateful that Southern Lit Alliance works through several programs to encourage this. It makes me thankful to be a part of it all,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The Barnett Prize\u00a0will be awarded annually to recognize the outstanding achievement of\u00a0authors in the Chattanooga area and to raise awareness of their talent, says Lynda LeVan, executive director of Southern Lit Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s many successful local authors that are unknown in this town and we wanted to bring light to the quality of the work,\u201d LeVan says.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, who has been at UTC since 1976, has published 25 books, including 15 books of poems, most recently\u00a0<em>Broken Horizons<\/em>\u00a0in 2018,\u00a0<em>Traversings<\/em> in 2016 and both <em>Retrievals<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Out of Place<\/em>\u00a0in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans of southeast Europe by the president of Slovenia for his work with the Slovene-based Peace and Sarajevo Committees of PEN International, a worldwide writers group. He also has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Education Association and National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>AT UTC, he directs the Meacham Writers&#8217; Workshop, a nationally recognized conference that offers advice and critiques for developing writers.<\/p>\n<p>The Barnett Award is funded by Warren Barnett, art philanthropist and president of the Barnett and Co. investment firm. The two other finalists for the award were UTC\u2019s Earl Braggs, Herman H. Battle professor of African American Studies in the English Department, and Jamie Quatro, a faculty member at Sewanee: University of the South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChattanooga has a great history of artists and writers from Bessie Smith and Ismael Reed to Raymond Usher, and contemporaries like the other two finalists, Earl Braggs and Jamie Quatro,\u201d Jackson says. \u201cI am humbled and proud to be mentioned among them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jackson, UT National Alumni Association Distinguished Service professor, says being chosen \u201cmeans a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/utc-english-professor-wins-inaugural-distinguished-writing-award\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":27307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3,98,7712,8244,64],"tags":[83536,12696],"class_list":{"0":"post-27183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","8":"category-community","9":"category-english","10":"category-faculty-and-staff","11":"category-honors-and-awards","12":"category-news","13":"tag-barnett-prize","14":"tag-richard-jackson","15":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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