Alabama Authors Directory

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Marlin Barton

Hometown: Forkland, Alabama Lives in: MONTGOMERY, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: marlinawf@gmail.com

Address:

    • 2140 River Ridge Parkway
      MONTGOMERY, AL 36108
      United States
  • Phone: (334) 294-1172

 

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About Marlin Barton

Genres: Fiction

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

Bio: Marlin Barton is from the Black Belt region of Alabama. His most recent book is a novel, Children of Dust, which was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He’s published two earlier novels, The Cross Garden and A Broken Thing, and three collections of short stories: The Dry Well, Dancing by the River, and Pasture Art. His stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. He’s also been …Read More awarded the Truman Capote Prize for short fiction by an Alabama Writer. He teaches in, and helps direct, the Writing Our Stories project, a program for juvenile offenders created by the Alabama Writers’ Forum, and he’s been teaching in the low-residency MFA program at Converse University since 2010.

Works: Children of Dust (A Novel), Regal House Publishing, Raleigh, NC 2021
Pasture Art (Short Stories), Hub City Press, Spartanburg, SC 2015
The Cross Garden (A Novel), Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, Savannah, GA 2011
Dancing by the River (Short Stories), …Read More Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, Savannah, GA 2005
A Broken Thing (A Novel), Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, Savannah, GA 2003
The Dry Well (Short Stories), Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, Savannah, GA 2001

Awards: Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for 2022 in the category of General Fiction (over 100,000 words)
Awarded the 2016 Truman Capote Prize for short fiction (first recipient)
Short story listed in the Distinguished Stories section of …Read More Best American Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
Short story listed in the Distinguished Stories section of Best American Short Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
Short story listed in the Distinguished Mystery Stories section of Best American Mystery Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

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