Blackwood Wins AWP Award For Novel

Scott Blackwood has been awarded the prestigious 2007 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Prize for his novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here, which is set in Austin's Deep Eddy Neighborhood. The AWP Award competition is open to all authors writing original works in English regardless of nationality or residence, and receives approximately 500 submissions each year. As part of the AWP Prize, Blackwood's novel will be published by New Issues Press in January, 2009. An excerpt from the novel was published in spring 2007 in the Gettsyburg Review. Blackwood has won two Texas Commission on the Arts Fellowships and been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. He is the Program Coordinator of the Undergraduate Writing Center at The University of Texas at Austin and teaches fiction writing in UT's University Extension Program.