{"id":1483,"date":"2018-03-23T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-blog.cah.ucf.edu\/?p=434"},"modified":"2018-03-23T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:27:05","slug":"florida-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/english\/2018\/03\/23\/florida-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Terry Thaxton &#039;s &#039;Mud Song&#039; wins Florida Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Ann Thaxton,\u00a0professor of English and M.F.A. program director, has won her second Florida Book Award for her\u00a0third book of poems,\u00a0<em>Mud Song<\/em>. Her first Florida Book Award was in 2014 for her second book of poems,\u00a0<em>The Terrible Wife.\u00a0<\/em><em>Mud Song\u00a0<\/em>won the silver and\u00a0<em>The Terrible Wife\u00a0<\/em>won the bronze, both in the poetry category,<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Book Awards, coordinated by the Florida State University Libraries, is the nation\u2019s most comprehensive state book awards program. It was established in 2006 to celebrate the best Florida literature. Authors must be full-time Florida residents, except in the Florida nonfiction and visual arts categories, where the subject matter must focus on Florida.\u00a0More than 200 eligible publications were submitted across the 11 categories of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/floridabookawards.lib.fsu.edu\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/english\/highlights.php?id=287\">English Professor\u2019s Prize Winning Book of \u2018Harrowing\u2019 Poems<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terry Ann Thaxton,\u00a0professor of English and M.F.A. program director, has won her second Florida Book Award for her\u00a0third book of poems,\u00a0Mud Song. 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