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MFA Faculty is Finalist for Next Generation Indie Book Award

Marlin Barton MFA Converse faculty

MFA faculty member Marlin Barton’s book Children of Dust was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in their General Fiction category. The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the largest international awards program for indie authors and independent publishers.

Barton, who teaches in our low-residency MFA program, is the winner of the Andrew Lytle Award from The Sewanee Review and the first Truman Capote Prize for short fiction by an Alabama writer.

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