Awards & Nominations
2012 Independent Publisher Book Award
South - Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold: The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure
(University Press of Mississippi)
2012 San Francisco Book Festival Award
Biography / Autobiography
Winner: The Last Resort - Norma Watkins
Memoir
Honorable Mention: The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure,
Norma Watkins,
University Press of Mississippi
The Eric Hoffer Award Mission Statement
The Hoffer Award was founded at the start of the 21st century (with permission from the Eric Hoffer Estate) to honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit.
2012 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
Nonfiction
Nominated: Norma Watkins, Fort Bragg, CA
The Last Resort - Taking the Mississippi Cure
