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Gabriel Bump (MFA '17) has been awarded the 2020 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. This prestigious award honors Louisiana’s revered storyteller, Ernest J. Gaines, and serves to inspire and recognize rising African-American fiction writers of excellence at a national level. 

Bump's novel, Everywhere You Don’t Belong (Algonquin Books), was also recently selected as one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2020.

Watch the Ernest J. Gaines Award Ceremony