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Arkansas non-fiction writer Jay Jennings is the recipient of the 2023 Porter Fund Literary Prize. The Porter 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 Leveritt, Morris Arnold, Kevin Brockmeier and Jo McDougall, the former Poet Laureate of Arkansas. The $5,000 prize makes it one of the state’s most lucrative as well as prestigious literary awar

2022 PORTER FUND LITERARY PRIZE AWARDED TO MARK BARR Arkansas fiction writer Mark Barr is the recipient of the 2022 Porter Fund Literary Prize. The Porter 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 Leveritt, Morris Arnold, Kevin Brockmeier and Jo McDougall, the former Poet Laureate of Arkansas. The $5,000 prize makes it one of the state’s most