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Academics: Hobson Lecture & Prize

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The annual Mary Frances Hobson Lecture and Prize The annual Mary Frances Hobson Lecture and Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters brings the college and surrounding community together each spring to celebrate the accomplishments of an author of note from the region.

Initiated in 1995 by the Hobson Family Foundation of San Francisco, the award serves as a memorial to Mary Frances Hobson (1912-1993), a journalist and poet, who was the first woman to receive the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award in journalism from the University of North Carolina.

Mrs. Hobson and her family have always treasured deep ties to the university and community. An aunt, Miss Lois Vann Wynn, a 1905 Chowan graduate, served on the faculty from 1905-1908, and for five generations the family has been connected to the Murfreesboro area.

Each year the university and community look forward to the events surrounding the conferral of the award. These events begin with a luncheon, held at the President's Home, to honor the writer, and to meet and mingle with the writer and Hobson family. Following the luncheon, the writer meets informally with students. The activities of the evening include the conferral dinner, lecture, and a book signing. During the conferral dinner, Charles Hobson, President of the Hobson Family Foundation, presents the recipient with a medallion that is inscribed with a likeness of Mary Frances Hobson on one side and historic McDowell Columns Building on the other.

Mr. Hobson also presents a monetary gift. Following the dinner, the recipient presents a lecture in Vaughan Auditorium. After a question and answer session, an outstanding English student and member of the Chowan University Alpha Zeta Rho charter of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society, presents a token of appreciation from the student body. The evening concludes with an informal reception in the lobby of Marks Hall. At that time books are available for purchase and signing.

The 2009 Hobson Prize winner is Darnell Arnoult

Darnell Arnoult - 2009 Hobson Prize Winner Darnell Arnoult has received notable success for her novel Sufficient Grace and her work of poetry What Travels With Us.

Sufficient Grace was a selection for the Book Sense annual book club list, a 2007 SIBA Fiction Book of the Year nominee, and a 2006 Weatherford Award nominee. What Travels With Us was named 2006 SIBA Poetry Book of the Year and won the 2005 Weatherford Award in Appalachian Literature, given by Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association. In 2007, Arnoult was named Tennessee Writer of the Year by the Tennessee Writers Alliance.

Arnoult’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of journals including Nantahala Review, Southern Cultures, Southwest Review, Southern Exposure, Asheville Poetry Review, Sandhills Review, Brightleaf, Now and Then Magazine, and she has been a featured author in Appalachian Heritage. Her poetry has been featured by Garrison Keillor on Writer’s Almanac.

The 15th Annual Hobson Prize will be conferred to Darnell Arnoult on April 6th.
For more information, contact Chowan University Provost Dr. Danny Moore at (252) 398-6211 or moored@chowan.edu.

Previously honored recipients are:
- Judy Goldman (2008)
- Josephine Humphreys (2007)
- Michael Parker (2006)
- Shelia P. Moses (2005)
- Chuck Sullivan (2004)
- Sheri Reynolds (2003)
- Padgett Powell (2002)
- Allan Gurganus (2001)
- Amy Hempel (2000)
- G.D. Gearino (1999)
- Randall Kenan (1998)
- Jill McCorkle (1997)
- Mark Richard (1996)
- Kaye Gibbons (1995)