West Virginia Fiction Competition Awards

On September 30, 2010, Bobbie Ann Mason, 2010 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University, presented Dawn with Third Prize in the West Virginia Fiction Competition Awards for her short story, "Sounds True."

Ms. Mason is a recipient of the Pen/Hemingway Award and a Guggenheim and NEA Fellowship. She was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Her award-winning short-story collections, including Shiloh and Other Stories, Love Life, and Nancy Culpepper as well as her novels In Country (adapted into a movie starring Bruce Willis and Joan Allen) and Feather Crowns, explore the the lives and loves of people in conflict with consumer culture and the environmental and social upheaval, the profound human disconnect that is the ultimate result of unfettered consumerism. A disconnect felt more acutely in a native cultural environment that values self-reliance above all else.

Dawn is thrilled and encouraged to receive this award.