Xhenet Aliu wins 2020 Townsend Prize for fiction

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Xhenet Aliu wins 2020 Townsend Prize for fiction

Posted on June 4, 2020

Greensboro MFA faculty Xhenet Aliu has won this year’s Townsend Prize for her novel, Brass. The Townsend Prize for Fiction is the state of Georgia’s oldest and most prestigious literary award, awarded biennially by the Georgia Center for the Book in partnership with the Chattahoochee Review. Congrats, Xhenet!

https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/books–literature/xhenet-aliu-brass-wins-2020-townsend-prize-for-fiction/WXOCrzMBug7TtD5whvCsiP/