J.W. Corrington Award Ceremony & Reading

Name: J.W. Corrington Award Ceremony & Reading
Start: 2025-10-27T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-27T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Schedule

Mon Oct 27 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Marjorie Lyons Playhouse | Shreveport, LA

The John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence is presented annually by the English Department on behalf of the Centenary student body and faculty to an established writer who has earned the critical esteem of readers who distinguish artistic accomplishment from commercial success.
Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems, and three works of fiction—The Birds of Opulence,Water Street, and Blackberries, Blackberries. She was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame in 2025. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Bush-Holbrook Professor in Creative Writing
The event will be livestreamed on the Centenary Facebook page. Learn more at centenary.edu/corrington.