Seventh Annual Montevallo Literary Festival

16-17 April 2009

 

Jim Harrell Poetry Scholarships Award

Keynote Reader: Janisse Ray

 

Readings and Workshops: Maurice Manning, Tony Grooms, and  Rebecca Gilman

 

Also Featuring...

Daniel Anderson, Emma Bolden, Mary Ward Brown, Christopher Chambers, Hartford Gongaware, Andrew Grace, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, and Michael Morris

and the Eating Alabama Bloggers

 

 

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. 

Hartford Gongaware has published short stories in journals such as Ontario Review.

Award-winning playwright Rebecca Gilman’s plays include The Glory of Living, Boy Gets Girl, and Spinning Into Butter.

Tony Grooms is the author of Ice Poems and Trouble No More: Stories and was winner of the 1996 Lillian Smith Award. 

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.

Michael Morris is the author of two novels: A Place Called Wiregrass and Slow Way Home. 

Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis is the author of Intaglio: Poems and has published widely in major journals. 

Andrew Grace and the eatingalabama.org “locavores” have embarked on a culinary odyssey to eat and blog exclusively in Alabama bioregions.

 

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. 

 

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We are grateful for generous support from the Southern Progress Corp. and the Friends of the Montevallo Lit Fest.

 

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