MLF 2010 includes two keynote readers/workshop leaders (Mitchell L. H. Douglas, and Lorraine Lopez) as well as a lineup of six invited creative writers (Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton, Kevin Wilson, Jennifer Horne, Lynnell Edwards, Graeme Harper, and Bryn Chancellor).  All will give readings.  The two featured writers are nationally recognized creative writers as well as humanities scholars in their own right. 

Lorraine Lopez is the author of several books including Soy la Avon Lady (2002) and Call Me Henri (2006) as well as the winner of the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction and the Latino Book Award for Short Stories. 

Mitchell L. H. Douglas, whose poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, is assistant professor of creative writing at Indiana University – Purdue.  Douglas is a founding member of Affrilachian Poets and is the editor of PLUCK!: the Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture. 

Other readers include: Alabama historian Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton, author of Teddy’s Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars and Hugo Black: The Alabama Years; Kevin Wilson, recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the KHN Center for the Arts and author of the collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth; Jennifer Horne, poet and professor at the University of Alabama whose publications include Working the Dirt, All Out of Faith, and the upcoming poetry collection Bottle Tree; and Lynnell Edwards, Pushcart Prize nominee, editor of The Georgia Review, professor at the University of Kentucky and author of two books of poetry, The Highway Man’s Wife and The Farmer’s Daughter; Graeme Harper, a University of Montevallo Vacca Chair candidate and a creative writing member of Great Britain’s Arts and Humanities Research Council; and Bryn Chancellor, creative writing professor of fiction at the University of Montevallo, finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize, whose publications include The Yalobusha Review and Colorado Review.        

 

 

MLF 2009

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Featuring: Janisse Ray

Readings and Workshops
by:
 Rebecca Gilman, Anthony Grooms, Maurice Manning, and
Mary Ward Brown
 

Also Featuring...

Daniel Anderson, Emma Bolden, Christopher Chambers,
Hartford Gongaware, The EatingAlabama Bloggers,
 Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, and Michael Morris

 

Bios:

 

	Daniel Anderson’s poetry collections include January Rain and Drunk in Sunlight. He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
	Emma Bolden is the author of three chapbooks of poetry: How to Recognize a Lady, The Mariner's Wife, and The Sad Epistles.  A Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets 2008 nominee, she was the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the 2008 Sewanee Writers' Conference and is a finalist for a 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.
	Mary Ward Brown's first collection of short stories, Tongues of Flame, won a PEN/Hemingway Award.  The University of Alabama Press published Brown's second collection of short stories, It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories.  She has won the Harper Lee Award the Hillsdale Fiction Prize, and a Lillian Smith Book Award.
	Christopher Chambers has received four Pushcart Prize nominations, is anthologized widely, received a NEA Fellowship for creative writing in 2008, and is editor of New Orleans Review.
	Award-winning playwright Rebecca Gilman’s plays include The Glory of Living, Boy Gets Girl, and Spinning Into Butter.
	Hartford Gongaware has published short stories in journals such as Ontario Review.
	Andrew Grace and the eatingalabama.org “locavores” have embarked on a culinary odyssey to eat and blog exclusively in Alabama bioregions.
	Anthony Grooms is the author of Bombingham, Ice Poems and Trouble No More: Stories and was winner of the 1996 Lillian Smith Award.
	Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis is the author of Intaglio: Poems and has published widely in major journals.
	Maurice Manning’s third book of poetry, Bucolics, has just been released in paperback; his first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, was selected for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets.
1	Michael Morris is the author of two novels: A Place Called Wiregrass and Slow Way Home.
	Award-winning writer, naturalist and activist Janisse Ray is author of three books of literary nonfiction: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home, and Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land.

 

 

 

This project has been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Alabama Humanities Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the Friends of MLF and the University of Montevallo.  Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web site do not necessarily represent our sponsors.

 

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