Patricia Spears Jones named recipient of Porter Fund's Lifetime Achievement Award

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Patricia Spears Jones named recipient of Porter Fund's Lifetime Achievement Award

Patricia Spears Jones Forrest City native Patricia Spears Jones is soon to receive the Porter Fund’s Lifetime Achievement Award, a distinction handed out every five years to an Arkansas writer with a “substantial and recognized body of work.” Past recipients of the award, which comes with a $5,000 prize, include Donald Harington in 2004, Miller Williams in 2009, Charles Portis in 2014 and Jo McDougall in 2019, making Spears Jones the first perso…