Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Julie Cantrell

Hometown: Daphne, AL Lives in: Daphne, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: julie@juliecantrell.com

Address:

    • Daphne, AL 36526
      United States
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email, Form on My Website

 

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About Julie Cantrell

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Film, Children and Young Adults, Inspirational

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Julie Cantrell is an award-winning, NYT, USA TODAY, and international bestselling author, editor, TEDx speaker, and ghostwriter. She served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review and received the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Rivendell Writer’s Colony Fellowship, the Fairhope Writers Residency, and the Pat Conroy Writer’s Residency Fellowship.
Her novels earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, were named book club picks by Target …Read More and Books-a-Million, and were featured as Top Reads by LitHub, Redbook, Southern Living, REAL SIMPLE, HuffPost, and more.
Julie currently writes, teaches, and edits fulltime from her home in Olde Towne Daphne, Alabama where she finds great pleasure in shepherding other people’s stories to shelves, particularly through her company, EMBER & VINE PRESS, a service provider that helps indie authors publish while ensuring the author maintains all rights and royalties.

Works: Creative Nonfiction:
Crescendo, HarperCollins, 2019
Contemporary Fiction:
Perennials, HarperCollins, 2017
The Feathered Bone, Harper Collins, 2016
Historical Fiction:
When Mountains Move, Harper Collins, 2015 (originally published 2014 by David C …Read More Cook)
Into the Free, Harper Collins, 2015 (originally published 2013 by David C Cook)
Children’s
Dog Saves Duck, BlueSpark Press, 2023
God is with Me through the Day, Zonderkidz, 2009
God is with Me through the Night, Zonderkidz, 2009
Short Story:
A Fun, Old Fashioned Family Christmas, BlueSpark Press, 2023
Anthologies Non-Fiction:
When You Pass Through the Waters: Words of Hope and Healing from Your Favorite Authors, Water Books, 2015
A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be, Mercer Univ Press, 2017
Southern Writers on Writing, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018
Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years, Brother Mockingbird, 2019
All Day, All Night: Life, Death, & Angels, Madville Publishing, 2023

Awards: Into the Free won the Mississippi Library Association Fiction Award (2013)
Into the Free took two Christy Awards for both Debut Novel of the Year and Book of the Year (2013)
When Mountains Move received the Carol Award for Historical Novel of the …Read More Year from American Christian Fiction Writers (2014)
The Pulpwood Queens International Bookclub named The Feathered Bone their Book of the Year (2016)
Perennials was chosen as an Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (2017)

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