HILLSDALE AWARD FOR FICTION
Wiley Cash, 2020 Recipient

Wiley Cash is a New York Times Bestselling author for his debut novel A Land More Kind Than Home. His latest novel, The Last Ballad is the winner of the Southern Book Prize for Literary Fiction, named a best book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library, and the American Library Association. He is the founder of the Open Canon Book Club and co-founder of the Land More Kind Appalachian Artists Residency. He is the Writer-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina-Ashville.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:
Rion Amilcar Scott, 2017
Jennine Capo Crucet, 2015
Holly Goddard Jones, 2013
George Singleton, 2011
Michelle Richmond, 2009
Denise Giardina, 2007
Robert Bausch, 2005
Mary Ward Brown, 2001
Percival Everett, 1999
Bobbie Ann Mason, 1999
Lewis Nordan, 1997
William Hoffman, 1995
Josephine Humphreys, 1993
Richard Bausch, 1991
Ellen Douglas, 1989