Alabama Wild “In Literature, it is only the wild that attracts us. Dulness is but another name for tameness.” Thoreau

Eighth Annual ALABAMA WRITERS SYMPOSIUM

May 5-7, 2005 Monroeville, Alabama The Literary Capital of Alabama Join us for the eighth annual Alabama Writers Symposium May 5-7, 2005, in Monroeville, Alabama

M.A. Battilana Explore “Alabama Wild” at the The wildlife photographs featured in this brochure are the work of wildlife 2005 Alabama Writers Symposium photographer M.A. Battilana. Battilana The eighth annual Alabama Writers boisterous, extravagant language of Inman Symposium will continue its recognition and Majors‘ first-person protagonist in Wonderdog has spent untold hours waist deep celebration of Alabama writers and scholars to the nonconformist social acuity of Pulitzer in the Alabama River swamp to bring May 5-7, 2005, in Monroeville. The symposium Prize winner Shirley Ann Grau; from Charles will provide a venue for writers, scholars and Gaines’ wide and wild spectrum of topics and back images of what few people readers to probe deep into wild territory, genres to Edward O. Wilson’s twenty books (and will ever see in the wild. He also surveying the length, breadth, and diversity two Pulitzers) on natural history, evolutionary specializes in portrait and landscape encompassed by the notion of this year’s biology, and the diversity of life; from Barbara theme, “Alabama Wild.” Robinette Moss’ fierce determination to break photography. M.A. Battilana currently Alabama literature runs wild in every sense the dysfunctional family patterns defining and lives near Monroeville in Southwest of the word, and the eighth annual Alabama confining her life to The Reverend Fred Writers Symposium sets out to explore and Shuttlesworth’s lifelong struggle for civil rights Alabama. celebrate that wildness in all its diversity of and social justice, the wild nature of Alabama’s meanings and manifestations. From the contemporary literature is open to investigation. Writers & Scholars

Featured Alabama Writers National Book Award, was made into a major Saints and Strangers, and a collection of literary motion picture starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, essays, The Glass Anvil. Saints and Strangers PHILIP BEIDLER, who received the 1999 for which Gaines wrote the screenplay. His was one of three finalists for the 1985 Pulitzer Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s second book, the nonfiction Pumping Iron, was Prize in Poetry; After the Lost War received the Distinguished Literary Scholar, is Professor of an international bestseller and was also made Poets’ Prize in 1989, and The Never-Ending was English at the University of Alabama, where he into a film which he scripted and narrated. His one of five finalists for the National Book Award has taught American literature since receiving other titles include Survival Games, A Family in 1991. Hudgins’ other awards and honors his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1974. Place, Dangler, Staying Hard, Pumping Iron II: include fellowships from the National His recent books include The Good War’s The Unprecedented Woman, and Yours in Perfect Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Greatest Hits: World War II and American Manhood; other honors include a nomination Foundation, the Hanes Prize for poetry from The Remembering and First Books: The Printed Word for the Writer’s Guild of America Annual Award Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Witter and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama. for film writing, two Cine Gold Eagle Awards Bynner Prize from the American Academy and A memoir, Late Thoughts on an Old War: The for television writing, and a National Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. He is the winner Legacy of Vietnam, was published in May 2004. Television Arts and Sciences Emmy for Television of the 2005 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Writing. He lives with his wife, Patricia, in Distinguished Writer. DIANN BLAKELY’s third book, Cities of Flesh Monastery, Nova Scotia, and Argo, Alabama. and the Dead, to be published by Zoo Press this INMAN MAJORS holds spring, won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, SHIRLEY ANN GRAU’s novel The Keeper of an MFA in creative writing given for a work-in-progress by the Poetry the House won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for from the University of Society of America. Currently serving as a poetry Fiction. The author of four collections of stories Alabama. His poems editor of Antioch Review, Blakely works as an and five novels, including The House on have appeared in literary arts reviewer for the Village Voice Media Group. Coliseum Street, The Hard Blue Sky, and journals including Antioch Roadwalkers, Grau lives in Metairie, Louisiana, Review, The Connecticut LORETTA COBB is Founder and Director and on Martha’s Vineyard. Her Selected Stories Review, Texas Review, Emerita of The Harbert Writing Center at the (July 2003) was a Paterson Fiction Prize Finalist. Crazyhorse, and the Laurel University of Montevallo. She graduated with Review. He is the author honors at the University of Montevallo and Bread ANTHONY GROOMS is a professor of creative of two novels: Swimming in Sky and Wonderdog Loaf School of English in Vermont. “Seeing it writing at Kennesaw State University. A poet (September 2004). He teaches creative writing Through,” in Belles Letters, was her first pub- and fiction writer, Grooms has published several at Hollins University. lished fiction. A collection of her short stories, books, including Trouble No More: Stories and The Ocean Was Salt, was published by Livingston Ice Poems. His novel Bombingham won the BARBARA ROBINETTE Press in 2004. One of the stories, “Feeling 2002 Lillian Smith Award for Fiction, was a finalist MOSS, winner of the Salty,” was short-listed in the international Fish for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, and was a 1996 Gold Medal for Publishing Contest, 2000, based in Bantry, Washington Post Most Notable Book of the Year. Personal Essay in the Ireland. Cobb has published academic essays William Faulkner Creative and poetry, as well as frequent articles for The ROY HOFFMAN is author Writing Contest, turned Birmingham News. She is currently at work on of the novel Chicken her winning essay into the her first novel, How Can I Keep from Singing? Dreaming Corn, an October widely acclaimed memoir She lives in Montevallo with her novelist 2004 BookSense Pick, Change Me into Zeus’s husband William Cobb. inspired by his grandparents Daughter. Her second book sojourn from Eastern of creative non-fiction is Marion Ettlinger JOHN COTTLE’s first book, Europe to Alabama in the Fierce: A Memoir (October 2004). Moss lives in The Blessings of Hard-Used early 1900s. He is also New York City and Iowa City, Iowa. Angels (August 2004) won author of the novel Almost the 2003 George Garret Family, recipient of the LINDA BUSBY PARKER earned a PhD from

Fiction Prize: Short Fiction. ohn Sledge Lillian Smith Award for J the University of Michigan and an MFA from Cottle lives on Lake Martin Fiction, and the non-fiction Back Home, a collec- Spalding University. While at Spalding, she was in central Alabama. tion of essays and profiles published in the a student editor of The Louisville Review. She Mobile Register, where he is a staff writer, and has taught at Eastern Michigan University, Iowa in Preservation, Southern Living, and the New State University, and the University of South York Times. He lives with his wife and daughter Alabama; has served as publisher and editor KIRK CURNUTT is a in Fairhope, AL, and periodically visits Louisville, of Mobile Bay Monthly; and is a frequent book professor of English at Troy KY, where he teaches in the Brief Residency reviewer for the Mobile Register. Her fiction University Montgomery. MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University. and non-fiction have appeared in literary journals The short story collection including Provincetown Arts, Big Muddy, and Baby, Let’s Make a Baby ANDREW HUDGINS The Literary Trunk, and in the anthology Literary (April 2003) is his first attended Huntingdon Mobile. Her novel Seven Laurels (April 2004) book-length work of fiction. College and the University won the James Jones First Novel Award. In He recently completed a of Alabama, and earned the summer of 2004, she served as a novel, Aphrodite and Dad. an MFA from the University Tennessee Williams Scholar in fiction at the of Iowa. Hudgins has pub- Sewanee Writers Conference, the University CHARLES GAINES, a native of Birmingham, lished six books of poetry: of the South. She lives in Mobile with her is one of the nation’s premiere outdoors writers. Ecstatic in the Poison, husband and daughters. A graduate of Birmingham Southern College, Babylon in a Jar, The Glass he writes fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays. Hammer, The Never-Ending, His first novel, Stay Hungry, nominated for the After the Lost War, and DOUG PHILLIPS is McCullers, and has HARVEY H. JACKSON III Coordinator for Environ- authored and edited a is a professor and Chair of mental Information and number of scholarly the Department of History Education with the works. She is currently and Foreign Languages at Alabama Museum of at work on a book on Jacksonville State Univer- Natural History. He also the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. sity. A leading expert on produces the award- Since 1981, she has Southern history and winning series Discovering worked as editor/publisher culture, he has written, Alabama for Alabama for Negative Capability co-authored, and co-edited Public Television. He is Press. eleven books, including the author of Discovering Putting “Loafing Streams” Alabama Wetlands, which features photo- Featured Alabama Scholars to Work: The Building of Lay, Mitchell, Martin graphs by Robert P. Falls Sr. and a foreword & Jordan Dams, 1910-1929; Rivers of History: MIRIAM MARTY CLARK is an associate pro- by Edward O. Wilson. Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and fessor of English at Auburn University specializ- Alabama; and Inside Alabama: A Personal ing in twentieth-century American literature, THE REVEREND FRED History of My State. He is currently at work poetry, and the short story. Her publications SHUTTLESWORTH on a book to be called The Rise and Decline include articles in Narrative, Contemporary graduated from Selma of the Redneck Riviera. Jackson serves on the Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth University and Alabama editorial boards of The Alabama Review and Century Literature, Mosaic, and other journals State College. A Baptist The Gulf Coast Historical Review. and in the Dictionary of Literary Biography; minister, he founded she served as guest editor for a special issue the Alabama Christian DERRYN MOTEN is a Humanities professor of Narrative devoted to the short story. Her Movement for Human at Alabama State University, board member current project, a study of Kenneth Burke’s Rights in 1956 and of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, and history influence on American poets and poetry, was served as its president book review editor for First Draft. He has supported by a 1998 NEH Summer Stipend. until 1969. In 1958, with served as facilitator for audience discussions Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s WAYNE GREENHAW Abernathy, he established the Southern Theatre in the Mind workshops, and has pre- studied writing in San Christian Leadership Conference. A tireless sented programs on the civil rights movement Miguel de Allende in campaigner for racial and social justice, he with the Montgomery and the Tuscaloosa Mexico, and at the participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and mass Public Libraries. University of Alabama protests. In 1988, he created the Shuttles- under Hudson Strode. worth Housing Foundation to help low-income DON NOBLE is Professor of English, Emeritus, He has published sixteen families buy their own homes. The Reverend at the University of Alabama, recipient of the books of fiction and non- Shuttlesworth is pastor of the Greater New 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award for fiction, worked on prize- Light Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar, book winning television produc- reviewer for Alabama Public Radio, and host of tions, worked as editor and publisher of the EDWARD O. WILSON, Alabama Public Television’s interview program, Alabama magazine, taught journalism and Honorary Curator in Bookmark. He won an Emmy for Outstanding creative writing, and written two plays that Entomology of the Collabor-ative Achievement in Writing from the were produced. Awarded a Nieman Fellowship Museum of Comparative Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of from Harvard University, he has been honored Zoology and Pellegrino Television Arts and Sciences, with Brent Davis, by the Associated Press and Sigma Delta Chi, University Research for an hour-long documentary film on Alabama and serves as a director for the Alabama Professor Emeritus at writer William Bradford Huie. He serves on the Humanities Foundation. Greenhaw was the Harvard University, is boards of the Alabama Writers’ Forum and the first journalist to write about Lieutenant William one of the world’s most Jim Harrison Alabama Humanities Foundation. Calley and the My Lai massacre, first in The renowned living scientists. Twice awarded Alabama Journal and later in his 1971 book the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-fiction, for JEANIE THOMPSON is Executive Director The Making of a Hero: The Story of Lieutenant On Human Nature (1979) and The Ants (1991), of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, co-editor William Calley Jr. Greenhaw lives with his wife Dr. Wilson has authored some twenty books (with Jay Lamar) of The Remembered Gate: Sally in Montgomery, Alabama, and San Miguel. and received over 100 awards in science and Memoirs by Alabama Writers, and author of His latest book, a non-fiction account of the letters, including the National Medal of Science, three collections of poetry: White for Harvest: bus boycott of the mid-1950s, will be published the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish New and Selected Poems, Witness, and How by Lawrence Hill Books from Chicago Review Academy of Sciences, the International Prize to Enter the River. She serves on the faculty of Press later in 2005. for Biology from the Government of Japan, the Spalding University MFA Brief Residency and the AAAS Award for Public Understanding Program. In 2003, The University of Alabama JENNIFER HORNE, a poet of Science and Technology from the American College of Arts and Sciences Fine Arts and editor, earned an MFA Association for the Advancement of Science. Leadership Board recognized her with the in Creative Writing at the Dr. Wilson’s latest book is The Future of Life Alumni Arts Award for her work as a writer University of Alabama. (January 2002). and arts education advocate. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in SUE WALKER, the Poet Laureate of Alabama, DAN WATERMAN, Acquisitions Editor for journals including Carolina is Chair of the English Department at the Humanities at the University of Alabama Press, Quarterly and the Birming- University of South Alabama. She is the author holds an MFA in creative writing from the ham Poetry Review. She is of six books of poetry, including Traveling My University of Alabama. He lives in Tuscaloosa the editor of Working the Shadow, Shorings, Blood Will Bear Your Name, with his wife Jeanette. Dirt (2003), an anthology of poems about The Appearance of Green, and It’s Good farming and gardening in the South. Weather for Fudge: Conversations with Carson Schedule of Events

Events will be held on the campus of Alabama Southern Community College, at the Monroeville Community House, and at the Monroe County Heritage Museum in downtown Monroeville. Registration will take place Thursday afternoon and Friday morning on the campus of Alabama Southern. In addition to the events listed below, the schedule will include art exhibits, music, and booksellers.

THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2005 11-11:30 a.m. Charles Gaines SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2005 1 p.m.-6 p.m. Registration & Exhibit with moderator Jeanie Thompson 8:30-11:30 a.m. Author Readings of Alabama Artists 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Book Signing 8:30-8:50 a.m. “State of the Literary Union,” 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Reception for Dinner Guests 12:15-2 p.m. Awards Luncheon reading by Sue Walker 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Opening Banquet Presentation of the Harper Lee Award for 9-11:50 a.m. Book Signing “An Evening With Edward O. Wilson” Alabama’s Distinguished Writer 2005 and 9-11 a.m. Refreshments on Old Courthouse introduced by Doug Phillips of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Lawn Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar 9-9:45 a.m. Reading by Andrew Hudgins, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2005 2005 Harper Lee Award winner, 2:30-4:15 p.m. Afternoon Sessions with moderator Jeanie Thompson 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Registration 2:30-3:30 p.m. “Writing Vietnam” 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Literary Coffee House 9:55-10:25 a.m. Barbara Robinette Moss Philip Beidler and Anthony Grooms with moderator Miriam Marty Clark & Exhibit of Alabama Artists & Music with moderator Wayne Greenhaw 8:30-9 a.m. Opening Convocation: 10:30-11 a.m. Inman Majors 3:45-4:45 p.m. Shirley Ann Grau with moderator Miriam Marty Clark “Alabama Wild,” Harvey H. Jackson III with moderator Don Noble 9-11:20 a.m. Author Readings 11:10-11:40 a.m. Roy Hoffman 4:15-5:15 p.m. Book Signing with moderator Derryn Moten 9-9:30 a.m. Diann Blakely 5:30-6:45 p.m. Picnic on the Monroeville with moderator Jennifer Horne 12:15-2 p.m. Luncheon with keynote speaker Courthouse Lawn The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth 9:35-10:55 a.m. “The Wild Ride from 7-9 p.m. Live performance of To Kill a Manuscript to First Book,” Loretta Cobb, introduced by Anthony Grooms Mockingbird 2 p.m. Meet the Authors/ Book Signing Linda Busby Parker, John Cottle, Kirk 7:30-9 p.m. Reader’s Theatre – Verbatim: Curnutt with moderator Dan Waterman Alabama Stories Dramatized 8:30-11 p.m. “Light Jazz and Heavy Conversation”

2005 Alabama Writers Symposium Registration Form Registration Deadline Friday, April 15, 2005 • Mail completed registration form to: Alabama Writers Symposium • Alabama Southern Community College • P. O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461

2005 REGISTRATION FEES ❏ Comprehensive Ticket • May 5-7 ...... $150 Name ______Includes all meals and events except To Kill A Mockingbird play on May 6 Business Name ______❏ Thursday Ticket • May 5 ...... $50 Includes reception and “An Evening with Edward O. Wilson” Address ______❏ Friday Ticket • May 6 ...... $60 Includes awards luncheon, picnic and jazz quartet City ______State ______Zip ______❏ Saturday Ticket • May 7 ...... $50 Includes luncheon with The Reverend Fred Daytime Phone ______Shuttlesworth ❏ To Kill A Mockingbird ticket ...... $25 Friday, May 6 only Admission to discussion sessions is free to all registered participants; however, there ❏ is a charge for other events. You will receive registration confirmation in the mail. Discussion sessions only ...... FREE The schedule of events is subject to change without notice. Registration fees are PLEASE NOTE: To Kill A Mockingbird tickets are non-refundable. limited. First priority will be given to those who purchase comprehensive tickets. Please register early!

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Card # ______exp. date ______Signature of card holder ______For more information call Donna Reed, (251) 575-3156, ext. 223/ email: [email protected]. or Jim Hilgartner, (251) 575-3156, ext. 226/ email: [email protected] Visit our website at www.ascc.edu for symposium updates and registration information. Alabama Writers Accommodations Symposium Sponsors in Monroeville The Alabama Writers Symposium is a project Monroeville is easily accessible from of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts. Interstate 65 and Highway 84. The hotels listed below are conveniently located on Highway 21. The Symposium is sponsored by Each hotel will hold a block of rooms for sympo- ■ Alabama Southern Community College sium participants until April 22. Please call the ■ George Landegger, Alabama River Pulp Company, Inc. numbers listed below for reservations. ■ Alabama Humanities Foundation ■ Alabama State Council on the Arts Best Value Inn $35.95 plus tax for ■ Sybil H. Smith Charitable Trust double, queen, and ■ BankTrust king rooms ■ Alabama Power Foundation (251) 743-3154 ■ Vanity Fair, Inc. Best Western ■ United Bank $55 plus tax for ■ double, queen, NDI’s The Cracked Pot and king rooms ■ Radley’s Fountain Grille (251) 575-9999

The Symposium is produced in cooperation with Days Inn ■ The Alabama Writers’ Forum $55 plus tax ■ The Association of College English Teachers for single and double rooms of Alabama (251) 743-3297 ■ The Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities Holiday Inn Express ■ $55.95 plus tax for double, Alabama Center for the Book queen, and king rooms ■ Monroe County Heritage Museums (251) 743-3333 ■ Monroeville Area Chamber of Commerce Monroeville Inn $30 for single; $35 for king; $40 for double rooms (plus tax) (251) 575-3312

ALABAMA WRITERS SYMPOSIUM A project of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts

Alabama Southern Community College P. O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461 (251) 575-3156, ext. 223