![]() ![]() Jackson Scholarship for Writers of Color. In an effort to encourage others, like Mitchell Jackson, to follow their passion for writing, the NW Injury Law Center is pleased to announce the Mitchell S. As a well-regarded speaker, Jackson has been invited to speak, read, or lecture at places including the TED conference, Yale University, Brown University, Columbia University, Middlebury College, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Miami Book Fair, and the Sydney Writer’s Festival. He currently serves on the faculty of New York University and Columbia University. He has been the recipient of Fellowships from TED, The Lannan Foundation, The Center for Fiction, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the PEN Hemingway Award for first fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for best fiction by a writer of African descent. He recently published his novel The Residue Years to international acclaim and was awarded a 2016 Whiting Award. His novel also won the Earnest J. ![]() in Creative Writing from New York University. in writing from Portland State University and an M.F.A. Jackson is a Portland, Oregon native who received his M.A. ![]()
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