page_title: Mary Hood
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Hood / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of the 1984 edition of How Far She Went
context_page_description: Mary Hood is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored three short story collections – How Far She Went, And Venus is Blue and A Clear View of the Southern Sky – two novellas – And Venus is Blue and Seam Busters – and a novel, Familiar Heat. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines.
  Hood was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2014.
context_section_description: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1984) (How Far She Went)
  The Southern Review /Louisiana State University Short Fiction Award (1984)(How Far She Went)
  National Magazine Award in fiction (1986) "Something Good for Ginnie"
  Lillian Smith Book Award (1987) (And Venus is Blue)
  Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists Author-of-the-Year Award (1987)(And Venus is Blue)
  Townsend Prize for Fiction (1988)(And Venus is Blue)
  Whiting Award (1994)
  Robert Penn Warren Award (2001)
  Townsend Prize for Fiction (2016)(A Clear View of the Southern Sky)
caption: 1984 Edition Hardback of How Far She Went
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