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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