Hobson Prize Recipient
2023
Hobson
Prize
Chowan University is pleased to announce that David Sanchez is the recipient of the 2023 Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters. In making the announcement, the Hobson Prize Selection Committee noted, “David Sanchez’s All Day Is A Long Time, which is a lyrical, engaging, and hauntingly beautiful first novel reminds us that the past is never beyond language’s redemption.”
A native of Florida, David Sanchez is the recipient of a James A. Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, a PEN America Writing
for Justice Fellowship, and a Tin House Workshop Summer Scholarship. A graduate of the University of Miami’s M.F.A. program in fiction, his poetry and fiction have been published in Thread Literary Inquiry, and
Momma Tried.
Photo by Bethany Hamer
