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Alabama17th annual Writers Symposium & Sinners SaintsApril 24-26, 2014 • Monroeville, Alabama www.WritersSymposium.org Alabama17th annual Writers Symposium Saints & Sinners Join Us In Beautiful Monroeville, Alabama, April 24-26, 2014 with Koethi Zan, Charles McNair, Sena Jeter Naslund and more! Explore the theme “Saints and Sinners” – to challenge your preconceived ideas of good and evil, of real and imagined places, and of where you believe stories begin and end. The lively weekend of literary offerings features readings, signings, an award-winning production of To Kill a Mockingbird, the renowned Readers’ Theatre performed by Alabama’s best and presentation of the 2014 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer and the 2014 Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar. From Koethi Zan’s timely and explosive tale of women trapped in a torturer’s basement to Charles McNair’s centenarian runaway, we explore survival, salvation, and the need to seek revenge and redemption. Saints and sinners are familiar themes in Alabama’s stories and songs, but this year’s artists find modern perspectives through poetry, personal history, fiction, and film. You’ll be held captive by Sandra Jaffe’s documentary about racially divided schools performingTo Kill a Mockingbird fifty years after its publication, and wonder if it’s okay to laugh when Andrew Hudgins admits that he simply cannot stop telling bad, old jokes. Widows and Wallace-era politics resurface in Robert Inman’s The Governor’s Lady, and Glenn Feldman looks at The Irony of the Solid South. Sena Jeter Naslund and Roy Hoffman share the stories of those we love and those left behind. We’ll celebrate the discovery of secrets, long hidden, when May Lamar shares Sidney Lanier’s struggles and Bobby Horton brings his authentic Civil War-era instruments and songs along with his warm and entertaining style. AccommodAtIons Monroeville is easily accessible from Interstate 65 and Highway 84. The hotels listed are conveniently located on Highway 21. For reservations, please call the hotels directly. The following hotels will hold a block of rooms: n The Mockingbird Inn & Suites n Monroeville Inn n The Country Inn & Suites (251) 743-3297 (251) 575-3312 (251) 743-3333 $65.95 plus tax for king $40 plus tax for double rooms $85.95 plus tax for king or two queens or two queens For UpdAteS vISIt www.wrIterssyMposium.org Look for Alabama Writers Symposium ® and Alabama Southern on Facebook WRITERS & SCHOlaRS richard Anderson is Professor wayne Flynt is Professor Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship and has been Emeritus of English, Huntingdon Emeritus of History at Auburn a Seaside Institute “Escape to Create” artist in residence. College. He lives in Montgomery, University and author or coau- She currently teaches in the University of Alabama Honors Alabama, where in retirement he thor of eleven books, including College and is at work on a biography of Sara Mayfield. continues to pursue his interest in Alabama in the Twentieth Cen- Her article on Mayfield, “Sara Mayfield: A Woman of American fiction, especially that tury; Alabama Baptists: Southern Her Times,” has recently been accepted for publication in of the American South. Baptists in the Heart of Dixie; Alabama Heritage magazine. A graduate of the Universities Poor But Proud: Alabama’s Poor of Washington and Lee, Virginia, and South Carolina, Whites; Alabama: The History of Bobby Horton was born and he taught for thirty years at Huntingdon. In his first years a Deep South State; and Taking raised in Birmingham, Alabama. there, he was privileged to encounter a student named Christianity to China: Alabama His life long passion for music Andrew Hudgins, who has been his friend ever since. Missionaries in the Middle King- and history began at an early age. Dr. Anderson is best known in Alabama literary circles dom, 1850-1950. He has been recognized with numerous With a trumpet playing father as the spouse of Nancy Grisham Anderson of Auburn awards and honors, including the Lillian Smith Book and a banjo-playing grandfather, University Montgomery. Award, the Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing, he was exposed to a varied menu the James F. Sulzby Book Award (twice), and the Alabama of music – from the sound of Mark Childress was born in Monro- Library Association Award for nonfiction (twice). Flynt is the big bands, jazz combos and eville, Alabama, and grew up in Ohio, the 2014 recipient of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award classical to the old time sounds of Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar. Southern gospel, sacred harp, and Alabama. He is the author of seven “hillbilly” music. A seasoned performer, Horton is a multi- novels: A World Made of Fire, V For Anita Miller garner, Professor instrumentalist, composer, producer, and music historian. Victor, Tender, Crazy in Alabama, of English and Creative Writing, He has performed with the musical- comedy trio Three Gone for Good, One Mississippi, and is the current Laura Harrison On a String, throughout the United States and Canada for Georgia Bottoms. His articles and re- Professor of English at the 35 plus years. He has also produced and performed music views have appeared in The New York University of North Alabama scores for thirteen PBS films by Ken Burns including “The Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times of Dutkowski Photo by Richard where she teaches courses in Civil War” and “Baseball,” two films for The A&E network, London, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday Review, Chicago literature, creative writing, and and sixteen films for The National Park Service. His series Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and Leisure, and literary editing. She is the author of recordings of authentic period music has been acclaimed other national and international publications. After gradu- of two collections of short fiction, by historical organizations and publications through ation from the University of Alabama in 1978, Childress Undeniable Truths (2009) and America and Europe. was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor Southland (forthcoming 2014). She blogs about Southern of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of culture at www.amgarner.blogspot.com. Her website is Andrew Hudgins was born The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. He has been writing www.amgarner.com. in Killeen, Texas, in 1951 and fiction full-time since 1987. Childress is the 2014 recipient educated at Huntingdon College of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished roy Hoffman’s new novel, Come and the University of Alabama. Writer. Landfall, is about three women He earned his M.F.A. from the on the Mississippi coast, the University of Iowa in 1983. His Kirk Curnutt is the author of men they love, and the wars that volumes of poetry include Ecstatic thirteen books of fiction and shape them. He is also author of in the Poison; Babylon in a Jar; criticism, including two novels, the novels Almost Family, winner The Glass Hammer: A Southern Breathing Out the Ghost and of the Lillian Smith Award for Childhood; The Never-Ending: Dixie Noir, along with several fiction, andChicken Dreaming New Poems, a finalist for the studies of Ernest Hemingway, Corn, endorsed by Harper Lee, National Book Awards; After the Lost War: A Narrative, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude and the nonfiction collections, which received the Poetry Prize; and Saints and Strangers, Stein. As professor and chair Back Home, and Alabama After- which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the au- of English at Troy University’s noons. His articles and reviews have appeared in the New thor of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil. Hudgins’s awards Montgomery Campus, he cur- York Times, Fortune, Southern Living, and his hometown and honors include the Witter Bynner Award for Poetry, rently serves as president of the newspaper in Mobile, the Press-Register, where he was a the Hanes Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Bread Alabama Writers’ Forum. His long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane who worked Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, most recent book is Brian Wilson, a critical introduction to as a journalist and speechwriter in New York City before and the National Endowment for the Arts. the Beach Boys’ mastermind in Equinox Publishing’s Icons moving back south to Fairhope, he received the Clarence of Pop Music series. Cason Award in career nonfiction from the University of robert Inman is the author of Alabama, and is on the faculty of the Spalding University five novels:The Governor’s Lady glenn Feldman is the author or Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program in Louisville, KY. (2013), Home Fires Burning, Old editor of nine books of original, Dogs and Children, Dairy Queen blind, peer-reviewed scholar- Jennifer Horne is the author of Days and Captain Saturday. He ship. He has also published 150 a collection of poems, Bottle Tree is also the author of Coming articles and reviews, including (2010), a short story collection, Home: Life, Love and All Things 37 blind, peer-reviewed journal Tell the World You’re a Wildflower Southern and The Christmas Bus. articles and book chapters. His (forthcoming from UA Press in Inman has written screenplays for work has been nominated for 2014), the editor of Working the six motion pictures for television, the Bancroft Prize in American Dirt: An Anthology of Southern two of which have been “Hall- history. He sits on a National Poets (2003), and co-editor, mark Hall of Fame” presentations. His script for Endowment for the Humani- with Wendy Reed, of All Out The Summer of Ben Tyler, a Hallmark production, won ties (NEH) board on “Thinking of Faith: Southern Women on the Writers’ Guild of America Award as the best original About Race Critically” project and co-edits The Modern Spirituality (2006) and Circling television screenplay of 1997.

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