The Alabama Writers’ Forum
The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, works to cultivate our state’s literary culture. We do that through supporting writers at all stages. We encourage our young writers to find their creative voice through the Father Goose Poetry Festival for Kids!–and through our Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards. We support the work of our state’s literary community through our Alabama Authors Directory, First Draft magazine, and other programming and opportunities for writers across the state. And we celebrate our state’s rich literary legacy through the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. We are, above all, a community of writers united by our desire to advance the literary arts in Alabama. If that describes you — join us! There are many ways to get involved.
We Don’t Push in Fairhope
We Don’t Push in Fairhope By Leslie Anne Tarabella Liberty Blue Press, 2024 Hardcover: $29.99 Genre: Nonfiction, Travel Reviewed by Suzanne Hudson If election season left you pessimistic and deflated by so much snark, name-calling, us-against-them angst, and mean spiritedness; if seemingly hopeless division has you considering anti-depressants—or maybe even electroshock therapy; if you have the urge to put your fingers in your ears to “la-la-la-la-la-la” away all the noise, then look no further than Leslie Anne Tarabella’s delightfully Southern-Comforty confection We Don’t Push in Fairhope, her nonfictional love note to her favorite place on the planet: Fairhope, Alabama. There’s lots of heart blessing, heartwarming, and heart affirming packed into this short-chaptered, fast-paced read as Tarabella dishes up vignettes about the denizens and doings in the once-upon-a-founding Utopia on Mobile Bay. Sure, she acknowledges that, like any place, there are some dark corners within and not-so-nice things about Fairhope, but this simply ain’t the time or place to get into any of that. This here catalog of tales and tellings is all about looking on the uplifting [...]
