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.

Authors directly submit their entries via this form, including publications, availability for programs and workshops, and contact information. Easily searchable and updated, the directory will grow and become more valuable with each entry.

Alabama authors are writing in every genre, for every age and interest, and in just about every corner of the world. From the new and emerging to the underknown to the best known, the Alabama Authors Directory is a resource to discover writers and works that reflect our rich, lively literary culture.

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Candice Conner

Hometown: Geneva, AL Lives in: Mobile, AL

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  • Email: cmconner10@gmail.com

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About Candice Conner

Genres: Children and Young Adults

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

Bio: Growing up between swamps, a river, and the Gulf Coast, Candice Marley Conner’s stories come from gnarled cypress knees, muddy water, and salty air. She is the kidlit haint at The Haunted Bookshop in downtown Mobile, a Local Liaison for SCBWI, and an officer for the Mobile Writers Guild. Her short stories and poems are in various anthologies and magazines including Woolgathering, Smarty Pants Magazine for Kids, Highlights Hello, Babybug, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and more. She is the author of …Read More the picture books, M IS FOR MOON PIE: ABCs IN THE BIRTHPLACE OF MARDI GRAS, CHOMPSEY CHOMPS BOOKS and SASSAFRAS AND HER TEENY TINY TAIL, as well as the YA Southern mystery, THE EXISTENCE OF BEA PEARL. She lives in Alabama with her husband and two children (one of whom is possibly feral, and definitely a velociraptor).
Candice is represented by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management.

Works: “With the Bees” WILD POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Hey Hey Books, Nov 2023)
“Sula and the Light” CLASSIC PIECES RETOLD ANTHOLOGY (Mobile Writers Guild, April 2023)
M IS FOR MOON PIE (Derby Press, Jan 2023)
CHOMPSEY CHOMPS BOOKS (MCP, Oct 2021)
THE EXISTENCE OF …Read More BEA PEARL (Owl Hollow Press, June 2021)
SASSAFRAS AND HER TEENY TINY TAIL (MCP, June 2021)

Awards:

2023 Story Monster Health and Wellness Award for CHOMPSEY
2022 Females of Fiction Award Best Overall YA for BEA PEARL

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