R.H.W. Dillard Receives the 2007 AWP/ George Garrett Award For Outstanding Community Service in Literature

At the AWP Conference in Atlanta, Richard Dillard accepted the 2007 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. The AWP/George Garrett Award is given every year in order to recognize an individual who has made exceptional donations of care, time, labor, and support to help writers and their literary accomplishments. Candidates are nominated by professional writers and selected by AWP’s Board of Directors. The award includes a $1,000 honorarium in addition to travel, accommodations, and registration for AWP’s Annual Conference & Bookfair.

“I cannot imagine anyone more deserving of this award than Richard Dillard, whose entire valuable life has been spent supporting writers, literature, and cultural literacy,” said Lee Smith, AWP’s 2007 Keynote Speaker, and a former student of Mr. Dillard. 

Richard Dillard teaches at Hollins University. He is the editor of the Hollins Critic and author of The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele and Other Poems; News of the Nile; After Borges; The Greeting: New & Selected Poems; The Book of Changes; Horror Films; The First Man on the Sun; Understanding George Garrett; Just Here, Just Now; Omniphobia; Sallies; and many stories, poems, essays, and literary translations.

The AWP/George Garrett award is named after George Garrett, who made exceptional contributions to his fellow writers as a teacher, mentor, editor, friend, board member, and good spirit. 

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