INTRODUCING J.B. HOGAN
White County Creative Writers and the Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame committee are proud to announce the 2025 Hall of Fame inductee is Mr. J.B. Hogan of Fayetteville.
Mr. Hogan will be presented the award at the White County Creative Writers Conference in Searcy, AR on June 14, 2025.
J.B. Hogan is a poet, novelist, and local historian with over one dozen books published.
Among his books are Angels in the Ozarks, a history of 1930s professional baseball in the NW Arkansas and SW Missouri area and Forgotten Fayetteville and Washington County, a series of articles about lesser-known local history.
He is a recipient of the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Washington County Historical Society and the Secretary of State’s Arkansas Diamond Award.
Hi, Jerry,
I’m glad to know of your writing career. I sponsored a college literary magazine from the 1970’s to 1990’s and sometimes wrote “filler” poems, mostly haiku. Then I did faculty opinion pieces for our local newspaper, one of which made “Colorado Review” and struck a chord with readers because it spoke of watching less TV and reading more. That was before cell phones took over.
If we both make it to Fayetteville in June we’ll talk more.
I’m the one with salt & pepper hair and glasses. Oh, wait….
Hope to see you in Fayetteville.