2014 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Mitchell S. Jackson, who won for his book, The Residue Years, with Mr. Gaines.

2014 winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, Mitchell S. Jackson, who won for his book, The Residue Years, with Mr. Gaines.

“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”
— A Lesson Before Dying

SAVE THE DATE

for the sixteenth annual

Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Doors open at 6:00pm; Ceremony begins at 6:30pm
Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts
100 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Seating is limited. Please RSVP here.