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Each year the Porter Fund awards a $5,000 Porter Scholarship to a student enrolled in the University of Central Arkansas MFA Writing Program. The 2025 Porter Fund Scholarship recipient is Hex Brown. ​​​

Poet Carolyn Guinzio “I was absolutely thrilled to learn that I am this year's Porter Prize recipient,” said Guinzio. “To be welcomed into the literary community in this way is truly an honor, particularly considering how much I admire the work of the previous winners.” The Porter Fund Literary Prize is presented annually to an Arkansas writer with a substantial and impressive body of work that merits enhanced recognition. Past winners of the Porter Prize include Mara Lever

by Jack Butler (a brief remembrance of the early days of The Porter Fund) Ben Kimpel died in 1983, at the age of 67. He was the greatest teacher I had ever known, and had become a dear friend as well—in company with Johnny Wink on a first trip, and after that with Johnny's wife (and brilliant scholar and lover of literature, grammarian, and teacher) Dr. Susan Wink, we traveled parts of the western United States on journeys which seemed to us, at the time, to have the heft an