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Savor SouthernLiterary Gumbo
Songs, stories and characters that flavor Alabama literature
May 5-7, 2011Monroeville, Alabama
www.writerssymposium.org
14th Annual Alabama
Writers Symposium
ALABAMAWRITERSSYMPOSIUMA project of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts
Alabama Southern Community CollegeP.O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461 (251) 575-8223www. writerssymposium.org
The Symposium is sponsored by: Alabama Southern Community College • George Landegger • Alabama Humanities Foundation
• Alabama State Council on the Arts • BankTrust • Alabama Power Foundation • United Bank •
Radley’s Fountain Grille
The Symposium is produced in cooperation with: The Alabama Writers’ Forum • The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama •
The Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities • Monroe County Heritage Museums
• Monroeville/Monroe County Area Chamber of Commerce
The Alabama Writers Symposium is a project of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts.
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MOBILE, AL
14th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium May 5-7, 2011 • Monroeville, Alabama
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Background: Mixed-media work by Kimberly Watson
Thursday, May 5, 2011 1-5 p.m. Registration & Exhibit of Alabama Artists1:00 p.m. Golf with President Sykes at Vanity Fair
Golf and Tennis Club1:00 p.m. Historical Downtown Walking Tours6:30-7:30 p.m. Hospitality Hour 7:30-9:30 p.m. Opening Reception with Mark
Childress
Friday, May 6, 2011 8 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration and Literary Coffee
House8:30-11:55 a.m. Morning Sessions8:30-9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Convocation 9:00- 9:30 a.m. Tom Franklin with moderator
Don Noble9:35- 10:05 a.m. Joshilyn Jackson with
moderator Anita Miller Garner10:10 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:30- 11:00 a.m. Poetry Panel with Jennifer Horne and Beth Ann Fennelly moderated by Jim Murphy
11:05-11:35 a.m. Watt Key with moderator Nancy Anderson
12:15-2:00 p.m. Awards Luncheon: Presenta-tion of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer 2011 and of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar 2011
2:30-4:30 p.m. Afternoon Sessions2:30-3:00 p.m. Harper Lee Award winner
Winston Groom with moderator Jeanie Thompson
3:15- 3:45 p.m. Book signing3:50-4:20 p.m. Bill Cobb with moderator
Alan Brown4:30-5:00 p.m. Wayne Greenhaw with
moderator Wayne Flynt5:00- 5:30 p.m. Frye Gaillard and Kathryn Scheldt
with moderator Jacqueline Trimble
5:35-6:50 p.m. Picnic on the Monroeville Courthouse lawn
Concurrent Sessions:7:00-9:00 p.m. Live performance of
To Kill A Mockingbird7:00-8:30 p.m. Reader’s Theatre at the Hole in
the Wall art studio8:30-11:00 p.m. “Light Jazz and Heavy
Conversation” at Beehive Coffee and Books
Saturday, May 7, 2011 8:30 -10:30 a.m. Light Refreshments and Morning
Sessions at the Old Courthouse8:45-9:15 a.m. Michael Knight with moderator
Jay Lamar9:30-10:30 a.m. Former Harper Lee Award Winner
Sena Jeter Naslund with moderator Roy Hoffman
10:45-12:30 p.m. Concluding Brunch featuring Sonny Brewer moderated by John Hafner at the Monroeville Community House
Events will be held on the campus of Alabama Southern Community College, at the Monroeville Community House and the Old Courthouse Museum in downtown Monroeville. Registration will take place Thursday afternoon and Friday morning at Alabama Southern. In addition to the events listed below, the schedule will include art exhibits, music and booksellers.
schedule of events
2011 Alabama Writers Symposium Registration FormRegistration Deadline Thursday, April 21, 2011 • Mail completed registration form to:
Alabama Writers Symposium • Alabama Southern Community College • P.O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461 Contact Donna Reed (251) 575-8223/ Fax: (251) 575-5356 • email: [email protected] • www.writerssymposium.org
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2011 REGISTRATION FEES Fees are listed per person
o Comprehensive Ticket • May 5-7 .................$155Includes all meals and events except To Kill a Mockingbird play on May 6
o Thursday Ticket • May 5 .......................... $50Includes reception and “An Evening withMark Childress”
o Golf with President Sykes • May 5 ........... $4018 holes and golf cart for one person o Golf with President Sykes • May 5 ...... $22.509 holes and golf cart for one person o Friday Ticket • May 6 ............................... $70Includes awards luncheon, picnic and more
o Saturday Ticket • May 7 .......................... $50Includes brunch
o To Kill a Mockingbird ticket ..................... $35Friday, May 6 only
o Discussions only...................................... FREE
PLEASE NOTE: To Kill a Mockingbird tickets are limited. First priority will be given to those who purchase comprehensive tickets. Please register early!
Total Registration .................... $ _______________
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. The schedule of events is subject to change without notice. Registration fees are non-refundable.
Kathryn Scheldt is a singer-songwriter and Nashville recording artist who lives in Fairhope, AL. Her fourth and latest CD, “Southern Wind,” was released in October, 2010 by Lamon Records. Scheldt has appeared at such legendary southern venues as the Bluebird Café in Nashville and Thacker Mountain Radio in Oxford, MS. Before
she began her recording career, she taught music at Queens University and the University of South Alabama.
Jeanie Thompson, a found-ing director of the Alabama Writers Forum, has published four collections of poetry. Thompson is a poetry faculty member in the Spalding Uni-versity brief-residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky. Her current project is a book-length persona poem sequence on the adult life of Helen Keller.
Jacqueline Allen Trimble is associate professor of English and the chairperson of Language and Literature at Huntingdon College. She has won several teaching and writing awards, including the Exemplary Teacher Award, the Todd Award for Outstanding Teaching, the Julia Lightfoot Sellers Award, and the University of Alabama’s Outstand-ing Dissertation of the Year Award.
Jim Murphy teaches creative writing at the University of Montevallo, where he also directs the Montevallo Literary Festival and chairs the Department of English and Foreign Languages. His chapbook, The Memphis Sun (Kent State UP), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award, and his first full-length collection, Heaven
Overland, is available from Kennesaw State UP.
Winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer (2001) and Birmingham native, Sena Jeter Naslund has just published a new work, Adam & Eve, a story set in the year 2020. Her earlier works include Ahab’s Wife and Four Spirits. She is currently writer in residence at the University of Louisville and is the Program Director of the brief-residency MFA in Writing at Spalding University, in Louisville. She is editor of the literary magazine The Louisville Review, which she founded in 1976.
Don Noble, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alabama, is the host of Alabama Public Television’s author interview program Bookmark and book reviewer for Alabama Public Radio’s Alabama Bound. He is the recipient of the 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award.
Watt Key lives in Mobile, Alabama, with his wife and three children. He grew up in Point Clear, Alabama where he spent his childhood fishing and hunting around Mobile Bay. His first novel, Alabama Moon, won the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award. His lat-est work, Dirt Road Home, continues the story begun in Alabama Moon.
In 2010, Mobile native and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Michael Knight released a new novel, The Typist, set in post World War II Japan. He has written two story collections, Dogfight and Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody, and two novellas included in The Holiday Season. His second book was the novel Divining Rod.
Jay Lamar serves as director of the Caroline Mar-shall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities for the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. As writer and editor, her latest works include The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers and Alabama Our State, a widely adopted fourth-grade Alabama history text.
The following hotels will hold a block of rooms: n Best Western (251) 575-9999$65.95 plus tax for king or two queens
n Days Inn (251) 743-3297$65.95 plus tax for king or two queens
n Monroeville Inn (251) 575-3312$40 plus tax for double rooms
n Holiday Inn Express (251) 743-3333$90.95 plus tax for king or two queens
AccommodationsMonroeville 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.Don’t miss the art displays
in the Alabama Southern Art
Gallery in Nettles Auditorium
and at the Monroeville
Community House. Regional
artists on display are all from
Best Friends Gallery in Bay Minette.
Artists include Best Friends Gallery
owners Judy Pimperl and Debbie
McMickle, as well as Brenda
Anderson, Claire McKenzie, James
Neal, Megan Scofield, Jane Sellier, Leslie Spradlin, Kimberly
Watson, Patti Wilson, Jo Vickery and Opal Smith.
Artists
Still life painting by Jane Sellier; Background: Painting by James Neal
photo credit David Stew
art
Nancy Anderson, associate professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery and author of numerous articles in scholarly journals, newspapers, and book reviews, serves on the Alabama Humani-ties Foundation Speakers’ Bureau and its summer workshops, AHF SUPER. She is the 2006 winner of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar.
Sonny Brewer is the author of the novels, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, A Sound Like Thunder, Cormac - The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing, and The Widow and the Tree. Brewer also edited the anthology series Stories from the Blue Moon Café and Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit. He
founded Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope and its annual literary conference, Southern Writers Reading. He is also founder of the non-profit Fairhope Center for Writing Arts.
Alan Brown, professor of English at the Univer-sity of West Alabama, has published and lectured extensively in the field of American literature, including articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright. Dr. Brown’s interest in Southern folklore has manifested itself in several collections of Southern ghost stories, including The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore, Shadows and Cypress, Haunted Places in the American South, Stories from the Haunted South, Ghost Hunters of the South, Haunted Georgia, Haunted Kentucky, Haunted Birmingham, Haunted Vicksburg, and Haunted Natchez.
Monroeville, Alabama’s own Mark Childress is the author of seven novels and the screenwriter for Crazy in Alabama, the Columbia Pictures’ film based on his best-seller Crazy in Alabama. His novel Tender was selected one of the Ten Best Novels of 1990 and was a national best-seller. Mark Childress has
also received a Distinguished Alumni Award and the Thomas Wolfe Award from the University of Alabama. His most recent work is Georgia Bottoms.
William Cobb has written several critically acclaimed novels: Coming of Age at the Y, The Hermit King, A Walk Through Fire, Harry Reunited, A Spring of Souls and Wings of Morning. His collection of short stories is Somewhere in All This Green. His latest work, Last Queen of the Gypsies, was released in November 2010. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Montevallo and was the 2007 winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Arkansas and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin, Beth Ann Fennelly is a professor in the English Department at the University of Mississippi. Her publications are Open House, Unmentionables, and Tender Hooks. Fennelly’s poems have also appeared in numerous anthologies including Best American Poetry, Best American Erotic Poems, and Contemporary American Poetry.
Wayne Flynt has received numerous awards and accolades in his literary and academic career. Two of his books have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes, and one book for the Lillian Smith Award for non-fiction. He is the author of the acclaimed Alabama in the Twentieth Century.
A native of Dickinson, Ala-bama, Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers: Stories, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. Currently he teaches in the University of Missis-sippi’s MFA program and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fen-nelly, and their children. His latest novel is Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.
Frye Gaillard’s, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, latest works are In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden and the Alabama Coast, which is currently being made into a documentary by Alabama Public Television, and With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions. He has also written a biography, Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy.
Anita Miller Garner, Associ-ate Professor of English at the University of North Alabama, publishes criticism about Southern women writers, and she writes about Southern culture at www.amgarner.blogspot.com and www.amgarner.com. Undeniable Truths is her most recent collection of short fiction.
Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama is the 22nd and latest book by Wayne Greenhaw, 2006 winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer. Other works include The Thunder of Angles: The
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow, King of Country, and Ghosts on the Road: Poems of Alabama, Mexico, and Beyond. Winston Groom took the publishing world by storm when his 1986 novel Forrest Gump flew to the top of the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for 21 weeks. It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the United States alone and was adapt-ed into a blockbuster movie starring Tom Hanks. This year’s winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer, Groom is the author of fourteen books including Better Times Than These, Gone the Sun, Only and the award-winning As Summers Die. Groom is also a renowned author of history and his most recent historical work, Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West 1846-1848, will be published this fall by Knopf. Groom was the 2006 recipient of the University of Alabama’s Clarence Cason Award for excellence in Journalism.
John Hafner is Professor Emeritus of English at Spring Hill College in Mobile whose publications include short stories, poems, travel articles, and re-views of contemporary fiction, as well as numerous scholarly articles. He is coeditor, with Sue Walker and Mary Riser, of Literary Mobile. He is the recipi-ent of the 2009 Eugene Current-Garcia Award.
Roy Hoffman is a novelist and journalist whose new book is Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations. He is also author of Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile, the novels Almost Family and Chicken Dreaming Corn, and personal essays reprinted in several anthologies, including More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times.
Jennifer Horne is the author of a collection of poems, Bottle Tree, the editor of Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, and coeditor, with Wendy Reed, of All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and About Faith: Southern Women on Spiri-tuality (forthcoming 2012). She currently teaches in the University of Alabama Honors College.
Joshilyn Jackson is the au-thor of the New York Times best-sellers Backseat Saints and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. Her first two novels, Gods in Alabama and Between, Georgia were #1 Book Sense Picks, making her the first author ever to receive that honor in back-to-back years. Her next novel, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty,
is forthcoming from GCP in January of 2012.For updates visit www.writerssymposium.org or look for Alabama Southern Community College on Facebook ®
We’re cooking up a great weekend in Alabama’s Literary
Capital for writers, scholars, songwriters, musicians and, of
course, people who love to read. We’ll be exploring the rich
variety of songs, stories and characters that flavor Alabama
literature. Don’t miss out on the savory Southern Literary
Gumbo! Visit www.writerssymposium.org for updates and
more information on our writers, scholars and artists.
Cook up some fun! Join us in Monroeville!14th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium
May 5-7, 2011
Tee Up for Golf with Dr. Sykes Vanity Fair Golf & Tennis Club
featured writers & scholars
Play nine or 18 holes on Monroeville’s beautiful course with
Alabama Southern’s President, Dr. Reginald Sykes. Price per person
includes golf cart: $40 for 18 holes or $22.50 for nine holes.
Sign up on the enclosed registration form.
photo credit Maude Schuyler C
lay
photo credit Kelly C
ampbell
photo credit Carolina G
room
New Events on Thursday, May 5 • 1 p.m.
Historical Walking Tours in Downtown MonroevilleSee Monroeville’s Historic Sites!
Details provided in your registration packet.
Kathryn Scheldt is a singer-songwriter and Nashville recording artist who lives in Fairhope, AL. Her fourth and latest CD, “Southern Wind,” was released in October, 2010 by Lamon Records. Scheldt has appeared at such legendary southern venues as the Bluebird Café in Nashville and Thacker Mountain Radio in Oxford, MS. Before
she began her recording career, she taught music at Queens University and the University of South Alabama.
Jeanie Thompson, a found-ing director of the Alabama Writers Forum, has published four collections of poetry. Thompson is a poetry faculty member in the Spalding Uni-versity brief-residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky. Her current project is a book-length persona poem sequence on the adult life of Helen Keller.
Jacqueline Allen Trimble is associate professor of English and the chairperson of Language and Literature at Huntingdon College. She has won several teaching and writing awards, including the Exemplary Teacher Award, the Todd Award for Outstanding Teaching, the Julia Lightfoot Sellers Award, and the University of Alabama’s Outstand-ing Dissertation of the Year Award.
Jim Murphy teaches creative writing at the University of Montevallo, where he also directs the Montevallo Literary Festival and chairs the Department of English and Foreign Languages. His chapbook, The Memphis Sun (Kent State UP), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award, and his first full-length collection, Heaven
Overland, is available from Kennesaw State UP.
Winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer (2001) and Birmingham native, Sena Jeter Naslund has just published a new work, Adam & Eve, a story set in the year 2020. Her earlier works include Ahab’s Wife and Four Spirits. She is currently writer in residence at the University of Louisville and is the Program Director of the brief-residency MFA in Writing at Spalding University, in Louisville. She is editor of the literary magazine The Louisville Review, which she founded in 1976.
Don Noble, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alabama, is the host of Alabama Public Television’s author interview program Bookmark and book reviewer for Alabama Public Radio’s Alabama Bound. He is the recipient of the 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award.
Watt Key lives in Mobile, Alabama, with his wife and three children. He grew up in Point Clear, Alabama where he spent his childhood fishing and hunting around Mobile Bay. His first novel, Alabama Moon, won the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award. His lat-est work, Dirt Road Home, continues the story begun in Alabama Moon.
In 2010, Mobile native and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Michael Knight released a new novel, The Typist, set in post World War II Japan. He has written two story collections, Dogfight and Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody, and two novellas included in The Holiday Season. His second book was the novel Divining Rod.
Jay Lamar serves as director of the Caroline Mar-shall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities for the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. As writer and editor, her latest works include The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers and Alabama Our State, a widely adopted fourth-grade Alabama history text.
The following hotels will hold a block of rooms: n Best Western (251) 575-9999$65.95 plus tax for king or two queens
n Days Inn (251) 743-3297$65.95 plus tax for king or two queens
n Monroeville Inn (251) 575-3312$40 plus tax for double rooms
n Holiday Inn Express (251) 743-3333$90.95 plus tax for king or two queens
AccommodationsMonroeville 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.Don’t miss the art displays
in the Alabama Southern Art
Gallery in Nettles Auditorium
and at the Monroeville
Community House. Regional
artists on display are all from
Best Friends Gallery in Bay Minette.
Artists include Best Friends Gallery
owners Judy Pimperl and Debbie
McMickle, as well as Brenda
Anderson, Claire McKenzie, James
Neal, Megan Scofield, Jane Sellier, Leslie Spradlin, Kimberly
Watson, Patti Wilson, Jo Vickery and Opal Smith.
Artists
Still life painting by Jane Sellier; Background: Painting by James Neal
photo credit David Stew
art
Nancy Anderson, associate professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery and author of numerous articles in scholarly journals, newspapers, and book reviews, serves on the Alabama Humani-ties Foundation Speakers’ Bureau and its summer workshops, AHF SUPER. She is the 2006 winner of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar.
Sonny Brewer is the author of the novels, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, A Sound Like Thunder, Cormac - The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing, and The Widow and the Tree. Brewer also edited the anthology series Stories from the Blue Moon Café and Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit. He
founded Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope and its annual literary conference, Southern Writers Reading. He is also founder of the non-profit Fairhope Center for Writing Arts.
Alan Brown, professor of English at the Univer-sity of West Alabama, has published and lectured extensively in the field of American literature, including articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright. Dr. Brown’s interest in Southern folklore has manifested itself in several collections of Southern ghost stories, including The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore, Shadows and Cypress, Haunted Places in the American South, Stories from the Haunted South, Ghost Hunters of the South, Haunted Georgia, Haunted Kentucky, Haunted Birmingham, Haunted Vicksburg, and Haunted Natchez.
Monroeville, Alabama’s own Mark Childress is the author of seven novels and the screenwriter for Crazy in Alabama, the Columbia Pictures’ film based on his best-seller Crazy in Alabama. His novel Tender was selected one of the Ten Best Novels of 1990 and was a national best-seller. Mark Childress has
also received a Distinguished Alumni Award and the Thomas Wolfe Award from the University of Alabama. His most recent work is Georgia Bottoms.
William Cobb has written several critically acclaimed novels: Coming of Age at the Y, The Hermit King, A Walk Through Fire, Harry Reunited, A Spring of Souls and Wings of Morning. His collection of short stories is Somewhere in All This Green. His latest work, Last Queen of the Gypsies, was released in November 2010. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Montevallo and was the 2007 winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Arkansas and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin, Beth Ann Fennelly is a professor in the English Department at the University of Mississippi. Her publications are Open House, Unmentionables, and Tender Hooks. Fennelly’s poems have also appeared in numerous anthologies including Best American Poetry, Best American Erotic Poems, and Contemporary American Poetry.
Wayne Flynt has received numerous awards and accolades in his literary and academic career. Two of his books have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes, and one book for the Lillian Smith Award for non-fiction. He is the author of the acclaimed Alabama in the Twentieth Century.
A native of Dickinson, Ala-bama, Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers: Stories, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. Currently he teaches in the University of Missis-sippi’s MFA program and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fen-nelly, and their children. His latest novel is Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.
Frye Gaillard’s, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, latest works are In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden and the Alabama Coast, which is currently being made into a documentary by Alabama Public Television, and With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions. He has also written a biography, Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy.
Anita Miller Garner, Associ-ate Professor of English at the University of North Alabama, publishes criticism about Southern women writers, and she writes about Southern culture at www.amgarner.blogspot.com and www.amgarner.com. Undeniable Truths is her most recent collection of short fiction.
Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama is the 22nd and latest book by Wayne Greenhaw, 2006 winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer. Other works include The Thunder of Angles: The
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow, King of Country, and Ghosts on the Road: Poems of Alabama, Mexico, and Beyond. Winston Groom took the publishing world by storm when his 1986 novel Forrest Gump flew to the top of the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for 21 weeks. It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the United States alone and was adapt-ed into a blockbuster movie starring Tom Hanks. This year’s winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer, Groom is the author of fourteen books including Better Times Than These, Gone the Sun, Only and the award-winning As Summers Die. Groom is also a renowned author of history and his most recent historical work, Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West 1846-1848, will be published this fall by Knopf. Groom was the 2006 recipient of the University of Alabama’s Clarence Cason Award for excellence in Journalism.
John Hafner is Professor Emeritus of English at Spring Hill College in Mobile whose publications include short stories, poems, travel articles, and re-views of contemporary fiction, as well as numerous scholarly articles. He is coeditor, with Sue Walker and Mary Riser, of Literary Mobile. He is the recipi-ent of the 2009 Eugene Current-Garcia Award.
Roy Hoffman is a novelist and journalist whose new book is Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations. He is also author of Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile, the novels Almost Family and Chicken Dreaming Corn, and personal essays reprinted in several anthologies, including More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times.
Jennifer Horne is the author of a collection of poems, Bottle Tree, the editor of Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, and coeditor, with Wendy Reed, of All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and About Faith: Southern Women on Spiri-tuality (forthcoming 2012). She currently teaches in the University of Alabama Honors College.
Joshilyn Jackson is the au-thor of the New York Times best-sellers Backseat Saints and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. Her first two novels, Gods in Alabama and Between, Georgia were #1 Book Sense Picks, making her the first author ever to receive that honor in back-to-back years. Her next novel, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty,
is forthcoming from GCP in January of 2012.For updates visit www.writerssymposium.org or look for Alabama Southern Community College on Facebook ®
We’re cooking up a great weekend in Alabama’s Literary
Capital for writers, scholars, songwriters, musicians and, of
course, people who love to read. We’ll be exploring the rich
variety of songs, stories and characters that flavor Alabama
literature. Don’t miss out on the savory Southern Literary
Gumbo! Visit www.writerssymposium.org for updates and
more information on our writers, scholars and artists.
Cook up some fun! Join us in Monroeville!14th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium
May 5-7, 2011
Tee Up for Golf with Dr. Sykes Vanity Fair Golf & Tennis Club
featured writers & scholars
Play nine or 18 holes on Monroeville’s beautiful course with
Alabama Southern’s President, Dr. Reginald Sykes. Price per person
includes golf cart: $40 for 18 holes or $22.50 for nine holes.
Sign up on the enclosed registration form.
photo credit Maude Schuyler C
lay
photo credit Kelly C
ampbell
photo credit Carolina G
room
New Events on Thursday, May 5 • 1 p.m.
Historical Walking Tours in Downtown MonroevilleSee Monroeville’s Historic Sites!
Details provided in your registration packet.
Kathryn Scheldt is a singer-songwriter and Nashville recording artist who lives in Fairhope, AL. Her fourth and latest CD, “Southern Wind,” was released in October, 2010 by Lamon Records. Scheldt has appeared at such legendary southern venues as the Bluebird Café in Nashville and Thacker Mountain Radio in Oxford, MS. Before
she began her recording career, she taught music at Queens University and the University of South Alabama.
Jeanie Thompson, a found-ing director of the Alabama Writers Forum, has published four collections of poetry. Thompson is a poetry faculty member in the Spalding Uni-versity brief-residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky. Her current project is a book-length persona poem sequence on the adult life of Helen Keller.
Jacqueline Allen Trimble is associate professor of English and the chairperson of Language and Literature at Huntingdon College. She has won several teaching and writing awards, including the Exemplary Teacher Award, the Todd Award for Outstanding Teaching, the Julia Lightfoot Sellers Award, and the University of Alabama’s Outstand-ing Dissertation of the Year Award.
Jim Murphy teaches creative writing at the University of Montevallo, where he also directs the Montevallo Literary Festival and chairs the Department of English and Foreign Languages. His chapbook, The Memphis Sun (Kent State UP), won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award, and his first full-length collection, Heaven
Overland, is available from Kennesaw State UP.
Winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer (2001) and Birmingham native, Sena Jeter Naslund has just published a new work, Adam & Eve, a story set in the year 2020. Her earlier works include Ahab’s Wife and Four Spirits. She is currently writer in residence at the University of Louisville and is the Program Director of the brief-residency MFA in Writing at Spalding University, in Louisville. She is editor of the literary magazine The Louisville Review, which she founded in 1976.
Don Noble, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alabama, is the host of Alabama Public Television’s author interview program Bookmark and book reviewer for Alabama Public Radio’s Alabama Bound. He is the recipient of the 2000 Eugene Current-Garcia Award.
Watt Key lives in Mobile, Alabama, with his wife and three children. He grew up in Point Clear, Alabama where he spent his childhood fishing and hunting around Mobile Bay. His first novel, Alabama Moon, won the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award. His lat-est work, Dirt Road Home, continues the story begun in Alabama Moon.
In 2010, Mobile native and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Michael Knight released a new novel, The Typist, set in post World War II Japan. He has written two story collections, Dogfight and Other Stories and Goodnight, Nobody, and two novellas included in The Holiday Season. His second book was the novel Divining Rod.
Jay Lamar serves as director of the Caroline Mar-shall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities for the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. As writer and editor, her latest works include The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers and Alabama Our State, a widely adopted fourth-grade Alabama history text.
The following hotels will hold a block of rooms: n Best Western (251) 575-9999$65.95 plus tax for king or two queens
n Days Inn (251) 743-3297$65.95 plus tax for king or two queens
n Monroeville Inn (251) 575-3312$40 plus tax for double rooms
n Holiday Inn Express (251) 743-3333$90.95 plus tax for king or two queens
AccommodationsMonroeville 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.Don’t miss the art displays
in the Alabama Southern Art
Gallery in Nettles Auditorium
and at the Monroeville
Community House. Regional
artists on display are all from
Best Friends Gallery in Bay Minette.
Artists include Best Friends Gallery
owners Judy Pimperl and Debbie
McMickle, as well as Brenda
Anderson, Claire McKenzie, James
Neal, Megan Scofield, Jane Sellier, Leslie Spradlin, Kimberly
Watson, Patti Wilson, Jo Vickery and Opal Smith.
Artists
Still life painting by Jane Sellier; Background: Painting by James Neal
photo credit David Stew
art
Nancy Anderson, associate professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery and author of numerous articles in scholarly journals, newspapers, and book reviews, serves on the Alabama Humani-ties Foundation Speakers’ Bureau and its summer workshops, AHF SUPER. She is the 2006 winner of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar.
Sonny Brewer is the author of the novels, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, A Sound Like Thunder, Cormac - The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing, and The Widow and the Tree. Brewer also edited the anthology series Stories from the Blue Moon Café and Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit. He
founded Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope and its annual literary conference, Southern Writers Reading. He is also founder of the non-profit Fairhope Center for Writing Arts.
Alan Brown, professor of English at the Univer-sity of West Alabama, has published and lectured extensively in the field of American literature, including articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright. Dr. Brown’s interest in Southern folklore has manifested itself in several collections of Southern ghost stories, including The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore, Shadows and Cypress, Haunted Places in the American South, Stories from the Haunted South, Ghost Hunters of the South, Haunted Georgia, Haunted Kentucky, Haunted Birmingham, Haunted Vicksburg, and Haunted Natchez.
Monroeville, Alabama’s own Mark Childress is the author of seven novels and the screenwriter for Crazy in Alabama, the Columbia Pictures’ film based on his best-seller Crazy in Alabama. His novel Tender was selected one of the Ten Best Novels of 1990 and was a national best-seller. Mark Childress has
also received a Distinguished Alumni Award and the Thomas Wolfe Award from the University of Alabama. His most recent work is Georgia Bottoms.
William Cobb has written several critically acclaimed novels: Coming of Age at the Y, The Hermit King, A Walk Through Fire, Harry Reunited, A Spring of Souls and Wings of Morning. His collection of short stories is Somewhere in All This Green. His latest work, Last Queen of the Gypsies, was released in November 2010. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Montevallo and was the 2007 winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer.
A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Arkansas and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin, Beth Ann Fennelly is a professor in the English Department at the University of Mississippi. Her publications are Open House, Unmentionables, and Tender Hooks. Fennelly’s poems have also appeared in numerous anthologies including Best American Poetry, Best American Erotic Poems, and Contemporary American Poetry.
Wayne Flynt has received numerous awards and accolades in his literary and academic career. Two of his books have been nominated for Pulitzer Prizes, and one book for the Lillian Smith Award for non-fiction. He is the author of the acclaimed Alabama in the Twentieth Century.
A native of Dickinson, Ala-bama, Tom Franklin is the author of Poachers: Stories, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. Currently he teaches in the University of Missis-sippi’s MFA program and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fen-nelly, and their children. His latest novel is Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.
Frye Gaillard’s, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, latest works are In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden and the Alabama Coast, which is currently being made into a documentary by Alabama Public Television, and With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions. He has also written a biography, Prophet from Plains: Jimmy Carter and His Legacy.
Anita Miller Garner, Associ-ate Professor of English at the University of North Alabama, publishes criticism about Southern women writers, and she writes about Southern culture at www.amgarner.blogspot.com and www.amgarner.com. Undeniable Truths is her most recent collection of short fiction.
Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama is the 22nd and latest book by Wayne Greenhaw, 2006 winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer. Other works include The Thunder of Angles: The
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow, King of Country, and Ghosts on the Road: Poems of Alabama, Mexico, and Beyond. Winston Groom took the publishing world by storm when his 1986 novel Forrest Gump flew to the top of the New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for 21 weeks. It has sold over 2.5 million copies in the United States alone and was adapt-ed into a blockbuster movie starring Tom Hanks. This year’s winner of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer, Groom is the author of fourteen books including Better Times Than These, Gone the Sun, Only and the award-winning As Summers Die. Groom is also a renowned author of history and his most recent historical work, Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West 1846-1848, will be published this fall by Knopf. Groom was the 2006 recipient of the University of Alabama’s Clarence Cason Award for excellence in Journalism.
John Hafner is Professor Emeritus of English at Spring Hill College in Mobile whose publications include short stories, poems, travel articles, and re-views of contemporary fiction, as well as numerous scholarly articles. He is coeditor, with Sue Walker and Mary Riser, of Literary Mobile. He is the recipi-ent of the 2009 Eugene Current-Garcia Award.
Roy Hoffman is a novelist and journalist whose new book is Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations. He is also author of Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile, the novels Almost Family and Chicken Dreaming Corn, and personal essays reprinted in several anthologies, including More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times.
Jennifer Horne is the author of a collection of poems, Bottle Tree, the editor of Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, and coeditor, with Wendy Reed, of All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and About Faith: Southern Women on Spiri-tuality (forthcoming 2012). She currently teaches in the University of Alabama Honors College.
Joshilyn Jackson is the au-thor of the New York Times best-sellers Backseat Saints and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. Her first two novels, Gods in Alabama and Between, Georgia were #1 Book Sense Picks, making her the first author ever to receive that honor in back-to-back years. Her next novel, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty,
is forthcoming from GCP in January of 2012.For updates visit www.writerssymposium.org or look for Alabama Southern Community College on Facebook ®
We’re cooking up a great weekend in Alabama’s Literary
Capital for writers, scholars, songwriters, musicians and, of
course, people who love to read. We’ll be exploring the rich
variety of songs, stories and characters that flavor Alabama
literature. Don’t miss out on the savory Southern Literary
Gumbo! Visit www.writerssymposium.org for updates and
more information on our writers, scholars and artists.
Cook up some fun! Join us in Monroeville!14th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium
May 5-7, 2011
Tee Up for Golf with Dr. Sykes Vanity Fair Golf & Tennis Club
featured writers & scholars
Play nine or 18 holes on Monroeville’s beautiful course with
Alabama Southern’s President, Dr. Reginald Sykes. Price per person
includes golf cart: $40 for 18 holes or $22.50 for nine holes.
Sign up on the enclosed registration form.
photo credit Maude Schuyler C
lay
photo credit Kelly C
ampbell
photo credit Carolina G
room
New Events on Thursday, May 5 • 1 p.m.
Historical Walking Tours in Downtown MonroevilleSee Monroeville’s Historic Sites!
Details provided in your registration packet.
Savor SouthernLiterary Gumbo
Songs, stories and characters that flavor Alabama literature
May 5-7, 2011Monroeville, Alabama
www.writerssymposium.org
14th Annual Alabama
Writers Symposium
ALABAMAWRITERSSYMPOSIUMA project of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts
Alabama Southern Community CollegeP.O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461 (251) 575-8223www. writerssymposium.org
The Symposium is sponsored by: Alabama Southern Community College • George Landegger • Alabama Humanities Foundation
• Alabama State Council on the Arts • BankTrust • Alabama Power Foundation • United Bank •
Radley’s Fountain Grille
The Symposium is produced in cooperation with: The Alabama Writers’ Forum • The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama •
The Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities • Monroe County Heritage Museums
• Monroeville/Monroe County Area Chamber of Commerce
The Alabama Writers Symposium is a project of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts.
PRST STDU.S. POSTAGE
P A I DPERMIT #1343
MOBILE, AL
14th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium May 5-7, 2011 • Monroeville, Alabama
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Background: Mixed-media work by Kimberly Watson
Thursday, May 5, 2011 1-5 p.m. Registration & Exhibit of Alabama Artists1:00 p.m. Golf with President Sykes at Vanity Fair
Golf and Tennis Club1:00 p.m. Historical Downtown Walking Tours6:30-7:30 p.m. Hospitality Hour 7:30-9:30 p.m. Opening Reception with Mark
Childress
Friday, May 6, 2011 8 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration and Literary Coffee
House8:30-11:55 a.m. Morning Sessions8:30-9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Convocation 9:00- 9:30 a.m. Tom Franklin with moderator
Don Noble9:35- 10:05 a.m. Joshilyn Jackson with
moderator Anita Miller Garner10:10 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:30- 11:00 a.m. Poetry Panel with Jennifer Horne and Beth Ann Fennelly moderated by Jim Murphy
11:05-11:35 a.m. Watt Key with moderator Nancy Anderson
12:15-2:00 p.m. Awards Luncheon: Presenta-tion of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer 2011 and of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar 2011
2:30-4:30 p.m. Afternoon Sessions2:30-3:00 p.m. Harper Lee Award winner
Winston Groom with moderator Jeanie Thompson
3:15- 3:45 p.m. Book signing3:50-4:20 p.m. Bill Cobb with moderator
Alan Brown4:30-5:00 p.m. Wayne Greenhaw with
moderator Wayne Flynt5:00- 5:30 p.m. Frye Gaillard and Kathryn Scheldt
with moderator Jacqueline Trimble
5:35-6:50 p.m. Picnic on the Monroeville Courthouse lawn
Concurrent Sessions:7:00-9:00 p.m. Live performance of
To Kill A Mockingbird7:00-8:30 p.m. Reader’s Theatre at the Hole in
the Wall art studio8:30-11:00 p.m. “Light Jazz and Heavy
Conversation” at Beehive Coffee and Books
Saturday, May 7, 2011 8:30 -10:30 a.m. Light Refreshments and Morning
Sessions at the Old Courthouse8:45-9:15 a.m. Michael Knight with moderator
Jay Lamar9:30-10:30 a.m. Former Harper Lee Award Winner
Sena Jeter Naslund with moderator Roy Hoffman
10:45-12:30 p.m. Concluding Brunch featuring Sonny Brewer moderated by John Hafner at the Monroeville Community House
Events will be held on the campus of Alabama Southern Community College, at the Monroeville Community House and the Old Courthouse Museum in downtown Monroeville. Registration will take place Thursday afternoon and Friday morning at Alabama Southern. In addition to the events listed below, the schedule will include art exhibits, music and booksellers.
schedule of events
2011 Alabama Writers Symposium Registration FormRegistration Deadline Thursday, April 21, 2011 • Mail completed registration form to:
Alabama Writers Symposium • Alabama Southern Community College • P.O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461 Contact Donna Reed (251) 575-8223/ Fax: (251) 575-5356 • email: [email protected] • www.writerssymposium.org
Name ___________________________________________________________________________________
Business Name ___________________________________________________________________________
Address _________________________________________________________________________________
City ____________________________________ State __________________ Zip ____________________
Daytime Phone ___________________________________________________________________________
Email ___________________________________________________________________________________
PAYMENT METHOD
o Check enclosed payable to Alabama Writers Symposium or
o Please bill my o VISA or o Mastercard
Card # __________________________________exp. date____________________________
Signature of card holder _______________________________________________________
2011 REGISTRATION FEES Fees are listed per person
o Comprehensive Ticket • May 5-7 .................$155Includes all meals and events except To Kill a Mockingbird play on May 6
o Thursday Ticket • May 5 .......................... $50Includes reception and “An Evening withMark Childress”
o Golf with President Sykes • May 5 ........... $4018 holes and golf cart for one person o Golf with President Sykes • May 5 ...... $22.509 holes and golf cart for one person o Friday Ticket • May 6 ............................... $70Includes awards luncheon, picnic and more
o Saturday Ticket • May 7 .......................... $50Includes brunch
o To Kill a Mockingbird ticket ..................... $35Friday, May 6 only
o Discussions only...................................... FREE
PLEASE NOTE: To Kill a Mockingbird tickets are limited. First priority will be given to those who purchase comprehensive tickets. Please register early!
Total Registration .................... $ _______________
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. The schedule of events is subject to change without notice. Registration fees are non-refundable.
Savor SouthernLiterary Gumbo
Songs, stories and characters that flavor Alabama literature
May 5-7, 2011Monroeville, Alabama
www.writerssymposium.org
14th Annual Alabama
Writers Symposium
ALABAMAWRITERSSYMPOSIUMA project of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts
Alabama Southern Community CollegeP.O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461 (251) 575-8223www. writerssymposium.org
The Symposium is sponsored by: Alabama Southern Community College • George Landegger • Alabama Humanities Foundation
• Alabama State Council on the Arts • BankTrust • Alabama Power Foundation • United Bank •
Radley’s Fountain Grille
The Symposium is produced in cooperation with: The Alabama Writers’ Forum • The Association of College English Teachers of Alabama •
The Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities • Monroe County Heritage Museums
• Monroeville/Monroe County Area Chamber of Commerce
The Alabama Writers Symposium is a project of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts.
PRST STDU.S. POSTAGE
P A I DPERMIT #1343
MOBILE, AL
14th Annual Alabama Writers Symposium May 5-7, 2011 • Monroeville, Alabama
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Background: Mixed-media work by Kimberly Watson
Thursday, May 5, 2011 1-5 p.m. Registration & Exhibit of Alabama Artists1:00 p.m. Golf with President Sykes at Vanity Fair
Golf and Tennis Club1:00 p.m. Historical Downtown Walking Tours6:30-7:30 p.m. Hospitality Hour 7:30-9:30 p.m. Opening Reception with Mark
Childress
Friday, May 6, 2011 8 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration and Literary Coffee
House8:30-11:55 a.m. Morning Sessions8:30-9:00 a.m. Welcome & Opening Convocation 9:00- 9:30 a.m. Tom Franklin with moderator
Don Noble9:35- 10:05 a.m. Joshilyn Jackson with
moderator Anita Miller Garner10:10 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:30- 11:00 a.m. Poetry Panel with Jennifer Horne and Beth Ann Fennelly moderated by Jim Murphy
11:05-11:35 a.m. Watt Key with moderator Nancy Anderson
12:15-2:00 p.m. Awards Luncheon: Presenta-tion of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer 2011 and of the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar 2011
2:30-4:30 p.m. Afternoon Sessions2:30-3:00 p.m. Harper Lee Award winner
Winston Groom with moderator Jeanie Thompson
3:15- 3:45 p.m. Book signing3:50-4:20 p.m. Bill Cobb with moderator
Alan Brown4:30-5:00 p.m. Wayne Greenhaw with
moderator Wayne Flynt5:00- 5:30 p.m. Frye Gaillard and Kathryn Scheldt
with moderator Jacqueline Trimble
5:35-6:50 p.m. Picnic on the Monroeville Courthouse lawn
Concurrent Sessions:7:00-9:00 p.m. Live performance of
To Kill A Mockingbird7:00-8:30 p.m. Reader’s Theatre at the Hole in
the Wall art studio8:30-11:00 p.m. “Light Jazz and Heavy
Conversation” at Beehive Coffee and Books
Saturday, May 7, 2011 8:30 -10:30 a.m. Light Refreshments and Morning
Sessions at the Old Courthouse8:45-9:15 a.m. Michael Knight with moderator
Jay Lamar9:30-10:30 a.m. Former Harper Lee Award Winner
Sena Jeter Naslund with moderator Roy Hoffman
10:45-12:30 p.m. Concluding Brunch featuring Sonny Brewer moderated by John Hafner at the Monroeville Community House
Events will be held on the campus of Alabama Southern Community College, at the Monroeville Community House and the Old Courthouse Museum in downtown Monroeville. Registration will take place Thursday afternoon and Friday morning at Alabama Southern. In addition to the events listed below, the schedule will include art exhibits, music and booksellers.
schedule of events
2011 Alabama Writers Symposium Registration FormRegistration Deadline Thursday, April 21, 2011 • Mail completed registration form to:
Alabama Writers Symposium • Alabama Southern Community College • P.O. Box 2000 • Monroeville, AL 36461 Contact Donna Reed (251) 575-8223/ Fax: (251) 575-5356 • email: [email protected] • www.writerssymposium.org
Name ___________________________________________________________________________________
Business Name ___________________________________________________________________________
Address _________________________________________________________________________________
City ____________________________________ State __________________ Zip ____________________
Daytime Phone ___________________________________________________________________________
Email ___________________________________________________________________________________
PAYMENT METHOD
o Check enclosed payable to Alabama Writers Symposium or
o Please bill my o VISA or o Mastercard
Card # __________________________________exp. date____________________________
Signature of card holder _______________________________________________________
2011 REGISTRATION FEES Fees are listed per person
o Comprehensive Ticket • May 5-7 .................$155Includes all meals and events except To Kill a Mockingbird play on May 6
o Thursday Ticket • May 5 .......................... $50Includes reception and “An Evening withMark Childress”
o Golf with President Sykes • May 5 ........... $4018 holes and golf cart for one person o Golf with President Sykes • May 5 ...... $22.509 holes and golf cart for one person o Friday Ticket • May 6 ............................... $70Includes awards luncheon, picnic and more
o Saturday Ticket • May 7 .......................... $50Includes brunch
o To Kill a Mockingbird ticket ..................... $35Friday, May 6 only
o Discussions only...................................... FREE
PLEASE NOTE: To Kill a Mockingbird tickets are limited. First priority will be given to those who purchase comprehensive tickets. Please register early!
Total Registration .................... $ _______________
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. The schedule of events is subject to change without notice. Registration fees are non-refundable.