birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
louisiana 240px american 1948 dixon hearne
 dixon hearne writer , educator
dixon hearne

dixon hearne -lrb- born 1948 -rrb- is an american educator and writer of fiction , nonfiction , and poetry .
he has published an education text -lrb- `` teaching second-language learning with learning disabilities '' -rrb- , three short story collections : `` plantatia : high-toned and lowdown stories of the south '' ; `` native voices , native lands '' ; and `` when christmas was real , '' and edited several anthologies .
his novella , `` from tickfaw to shongaloo '' is forthcoming from southeast missouri state university press .
it was previously named the sole runner-up in the international creative writing competition sponsored by the pirates alley faulkner society in new orleans .
the contest was judged by moira crone .
after writing for professional magazines and journals , he began to write in a `` different voice . ''
in 2003 , his first short story won an award and was subsequently published in a literary journal .
his short fiction , poetry , and nonfiction have received numerous awards and appear widely in magazines , journals , and anthologies .
