Tuck Wins AWP’s James Alan McPherson prize

Dean Marshall Tuck’s novel Twinless Twin was selected as the recipient of the James Alan McPherson prize for the novel by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. The AWP recently announced that National Book Award Winner Jason Mott chose Tuck’s book among several hundred novels submitted for the prize. Tuck is an  ECU Creative Writing alumnus and former English faculty member,

The University of Nebraska Press will be publishing Twinless Twin in 2025, and Tuck is invited to read from his novel at the 2026 AWP conference.

Tuck has also had recent publications in other literary journals this year. A chapter from his novel, “Before Crossing the Desert,” was published in Alaska Quarterly Review. His poems “Parking Meter” and “Grandaddy, a Mystery” were published by Rattle, and his short story “Cicatrix” was published by Ohio State University’s literary journal, The Journal. The first chapter of Twinless Twin and more of Tuck’s writing can be found at www.deanmarsalltuck.com. Tuck regularly teaches creative writing at WCC and co-edits the college’s creative writing and art magazine, Renaissance. He also serves on the editorial board of ECU’s North Carolina Literary Review.