VCFA Alumnus Jim McGarrah Wins Literary Prize

Congratulations to Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus Jim McGarrah whose book, A Temporary Sort of Peace: A Memoir of Vietnam, has won the Legacy Nonfiction Prize for 2010 from the Eric Hoffer Award for Short Prose and Independent Books. In honoring McGarrah's work, the Hoffer Award noted the following: "McGarrah paints a remarkable canvas in a true-life account of his time in the Vietnam War...It is an honest and memorable story."
 

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