Alabama Writers' Forum

Submit Your Writing to Salvation South
2023-05-09 - 2023-12-31
Salvation South is the new online magazine founded by former Bitter Southerner editor-in-chief Chuck Reece. We’re looking for narrative journalism, personal essays, fiction and poetry.

The Fitzgerald Museum's sixth annual Literary Contest: Submissions Period
2023-09-01 - 2023-12-31 | The Fitzgerald Museum, 919 Felder Avenue, Montgomery, AL, 36106, United States
F. Scott and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald were daring and revolutionary in their lives and in their art and writing. More than one hundred years after they met in Montgomery, Alabama, the Fitzgeralds’ literary and artistic works from the 1920s and 1930s are still regarded as groundbreaking, and The Fitzgerald Museum is seeking to identify and honor the daring and revolutionary young writers and artists of this generation.
Categories: Grades 9–10, Grades 11–12, Undergraduate
General Guidelines for 2023 – 2024:
The Fitzgerald Museum’s sixth annual Literary Contest is accepting submissions of short fiction, poetry, ten-minute plays, film scripts, and multi-genre works that exhibit the theme “The Best Postman in the World,” which comes from lines in Act III of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1923 stage play The Vegetable. This theme implies works about ambition, the pursuit of a goal, or excellence in one’s work. Works with traditional forms and styles will be accepted for judging, yet writers are encouraged to send works that utilize innovative forms and techniques. Literary works may include artwork, illustrations, font variations, and other graphic elements, with the caveat that these elements should enhance the work, not simply decorate the page.
The submissions period is open from September 1 until December 31, 2023. Works will be judged within three separate age categories, not by genre, so please be clear about the age category. Submissions should not exceed ten pages (with font sizes no smaller than 11 point). Each student may only enter once. Awards will be announced by March 15, 2024. Each age/grade category will have a single winner and possibly an honorable mention.
Works should be submitted through the web form available on the Fitzgerald Museum’s website. Due to issues of compatibility, works should be submitted as PDF to ensure that they appear as the author intends. Files should be named with the author’s first initial [dot] last name [underscore] title. For example, J.Smith_InnovativeStory.pdf. Questions about the contest or the entry process may be sent to contest coordinator Foster Dickson at fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com, with “Literary Contest Question” in the subject line.
This year’s judges are Zestlan Simmons for the undergraduate category and Jim Hilgartner for the high school categories. Zestlan Simmons is an alumni of the Carver Creative and Performing Arts Center’s creative writing component and has been a high school English teacher for more than twenty years. She was the 2018 Alabama Teacher of the Year. Jim Hilgartner is a fiction writer and teacher who has published work in ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, Greensboro Review, Mid-American Review, New Orleans Review, Vermont Literary Review, Xavier Review, and elsewhere. He has also served as fiction editor at Black Warrior Review, THAT Literary Review, and (currently) Thirteen Bridges Review. Hilgartner retired as Professor of English at Huntingdon College in 2023.
The Literary Contest’s annual themes honor and reflect upon the Fitzgeralds’ literary legacy. The inaugural contest had as its theme “What’s Old is New,” which encouraged students to look to tradition for inspiration. For the second year, the theme “Love + Marriage” celebrated the centennial of the couple’s courtship and marriage. In year three, “The Education of a Personage” centered on themes of growth and maturing aligned with the centennial of Scott’s debut novel This Side of Paradise. Year four harkened back to 1921’s The Beautiful and the Damned with the theme “The Radiant Hour.” Last year’s theme, “Unclassified Masterpieces,” honored the anniversary of the 1922 story collection Tales from the Jazz Age. While these themes do parallel the Fitzgerald’s literary and personal history, they are intended to guide students to consider and examine the present and the future as Scott and Zelda did in their day.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award: Submissions Period
2023-09-01 - 2023-12-31 | Fitzgerald Museum, 919 Felder Avenue, Montgomery, AL, 36106, United States
Montgomery, Alabama native Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was daring and revolutionary in her life, art, and writing, and The Fitzgerald Museum’s Young Writers Award that bears her name seeks to identify and honor Alabama’s high school students who share her talent and spirit. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame in spring 2020. This award, which was first given the following year, celebrates her life and legacy by recognizing the talents and abilities of young Alabama writers.
General Guidelines:
The Fitzgerald Museum’s fourth annual Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Young Writers Award is accepting submissions of portfolios from young writers who are currently attending high school (grades 9 – 12) in Alabama. Portfolios should contain literary works (stories, poems, plays or film scripts, multi-genre works) totaling 5 to 15 pages with font sizes no smaller than 11 point. Writers are encouraged to include works that are innovative in style, content, form, and/or technique. Literary works may include artwork, illustrations, font variations, and other graphic elements, but these elements should enhance the work, not simply decorate the page.
The submissions period is open from September 1 until December 31, 2023. Each student may only enter once.
Portfolios will be judged holistically, and only one award will be given each year. The recipient will be announced by March 15, 2024.
Portfolios should be submitted through the web form on the Fitzgerald Museum’s website. Due to issues of compatibility, works should be collected into one PDF named with the author’s first initial [dot] last name [underscore] ZeldaPortfolio (for example, J.Smith_ZeldaPortfolio.pdf). Questions about the award or the entry process may be sent to contest coordinator Foster Dickson at fitzgeraldliterarycontest@gmail.com, with “Zelda Fitzgerald Award Question” in the subject line.
This year’s judge for the award is Lenore Vickrey. Since 2012, Vickrey has been the editor of Alabama Living magazine, which is the largest circulation magazine in the state. She has been a journalist since high school and has more than forty-five years of experience as a newspaper reporter, editor, and corporate communicator.

DISQUIET International Literary Program
2023-09-11 - 2023-12-01
Program applications are open until December 1 for the DISQUIET International Literary Program. Experience contemporary Portuguese literature and workshop your writing next summer with the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon. Faculty for 2024 will include Jessica Anthony, Chris Feliciano Arnold, Jamel Brinkley, Cyriaco Lopes, T Kira Madden, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Katherine Vaz, Terri Witek, and many more TBA.
Full tuition waivers are available through our writing contest; see our website for details or enter at disquietinternational.submittable.com

Call for Submissions: Heroines Anthology, Volume 5
2023-09-27 12:13 - 2023-12-17 10:13 (America/Chicago)
Women poets are invited to submit poetry that reimagines women in myth, fairy tale, folklore or legend, poems that tell women’s lost histories, or untold stories, to the Heroines Anthology and Women’s Writing Prize. This will be the Heroines Anthology’s fifth volume and it is a GLOBAL POETRY EDITION. Submissions close on the 18TH DECEMBER 2023. First prize is $500 and all short-listed entries will be published in the anthology. Find out more & submit your poetry here: https://www.theneoperennialpress.com/heroine anthology submissions

Kauai Writers Conference
2023-11-06 - 2023-11-13 | Royal Sonesta Kauai Resort, 3610 Rice Street, Lihue, HI, 96766, United States
The Kauai Writers Conference, now in its tenth year, has grown to be regarded as the premier writers gathering in the U.S. Each November a faculty of 40+ renowned authors and top literary agents come to the Royal Sonesta Kauai Resort for a week. Conference participants work on their craft in master classes, workshops, and discussions with these authors and present their work to the agents for representation and critique.
You can learn all about this event at kauaiwritersconference.com
AWF members are entitled to a 20% discount on their registration. To get this discount, enter WG789 when asked for a code on the registration page.

Julie Williams with Wings of Opportunity
2023-11-09 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Join us for a fun National Aviation Month presentation with award-winning historian Julie Hedgepeth Williams. Her book Wings of Opportunity describes a lesser-known chapter of the Wright brothers’ history, which began in 1910 when Wilbur and Orville moved to Montgomery, Alabama to open our nation’s first civilian flight school. Says one reviewer of her book: “Dr. Williams is a masterful storyteller. In Wings of Opportunity, Julie Williams vividly recreates the complex tale of civic pride, two aviation pioneers who had little interest in public image, local journalists who didn’t know what to make of them, and the fascination of ordinary citizens with the amazing invention of flight.” Take-off is at 5:30pm on November 9!

Readings from works in progress with Kent Quaney, Katherine Gaffney, and Garrett Ashley
2023-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Join us for an evening of readings from works in progress with Kent Quaney and friends. We celebrated the release of Quaney’s One Breath from Drowning last year. Come listen to a reading from his next writing project. An Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Creative Writing at AUM, Quaney will be joined by two other talents: poet Katherine Gaffney, whose new collection, Fool in a Blue House, was published by the University of Tampa Press last year, winning the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry; and Garrett Ashley, whose short story collection Before the Snakes Came won the 2022 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award. This will be a fun evening of listening and discussion of the best kind.

Foster Hirsch with "Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties"
2023-11-16 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
We are pleased to host Foster Hirsch for a talk and signing on the subject of his newest book, Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher — Television. The work offers a fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected these seismic shifts. Hirsch is the author of sixteen books on subjects related to theater and the movies. All the way from California, please join us in welcoming him.

An Evening with Poet Katherine Gaffney
2023-11-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Theatre AUM – Taylor Center, 7041 Senators Dr, Montgomery, AL, 36117, United States
Award winning poet Katherine Gaffney will be reading and discussing her work on Thursday, November 16, at 6:30 pm at Theatre AUM in the Taylor Center on AUM campus.
Gaffney is a graduate of the University of Illinois MFA program and the University of Southern Mississippi Center for Writers PhD program.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals, and her most recent collection, Fool in a Blue House, won the 2022 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.

Mike Turner - “Songs to Poems (and Vice Versa!)”
2023-11-18 10:00 - 11:30 | Fairhope Museum of History, 24 N. Section St, Fairhope, AL, 36532, United States
Fairhope songwriter and poet Mike Turner gives a presentation on adapting poems to song (and vice versa), with examples from his catalog of original songs and poems. Includes readings and song performances. Hosted by The Pensters (A Fairhope Writing Group)
Location: Fairhope Museum of History, 24 N. Section St, Fairhope, AL 36532
Free; open to public; accessible

Southern Writers Reading Reunion
2023-11-18 13:00 - 19:30
Reunion anthology The Best of the Shortest available a block away at Page & Palette! Panels begin at 1:00 pm at Centennial Hall on the campus of Coastal Community College / 450 Fairhope Avenue / 36532. Panel I from 1:00-2:15; Panel II from 3:00-4:15; Rick Bragg and Sonny Brewer from 6:00-7:15. Donations to the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in lieu of admission. Pictured here: Yours truly (with the anthology), Beth Ann Fennelly (Mississippi), Marlin Barton, Dayne Sherman (Louisiana), James Whorton, Jr. (New York), Patricia Foster (Iowa), and Rick Bragg.

Book Signing and Gathering with Michael Diaz-Griffith
2023-11-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Frank Lloyd Wright’s Rosenbaum House, 601 Riverview Drive, Florence, United States
Florence Arts and Museums is hosting a book signing and gathering with author Michael Diaz-Griffith on Sunday, November 19th, 2023, from 2:00-4:00pm at the Frank Lloyd Wright- Rosenbaum House, 601 Riverview Drive, Florence, AL. Michael will be discussing and signing his latest book, The New Antiquarians: At Home with Young Collectors (Monacelli Press, 2023). The book is available for purchase locally or online. Refreshments and drinks will be available.
Michael Diaz-Griffith is a native of Florence, Alabama. He is a writer, designer, art-world leader, and Executive Director of the Design Leadership Network. Prior to joining DLN, Diaz-Griffith served as Executive Director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation and as Associate Executive Director of The Winter Show, America’s most prestigious and longest-running art and antiques fair.
The program is free and is sponsored by the City of Florence Department of Arts and Museums and Books-A-Million. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Rosenbaum House is located at 601 Riverview Drive, Florence, AL and is open, Tuesday – Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Call (256) 760-6379 or visit our Florence Arts and Museums website to RSVP.

Alabama State Poetry Society Online Open Mic
2023-11-27 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-12-25 18:30 - 19:30, 2024-01-22 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
Join us for online poetry open mics the 4th Monday of each month!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85693609367
Meeting ID: 856 9360 9367

Open calls for writers and artists
2023-11-28 - 2023-12-31 | Online, NC
Sunspot Lit welcomes art and fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, and graphic novels. The journal accepts genre, commercial, mainstream and literary pieces. Final open calls for 2024 ending soon. Submit at https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit today!

Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center Holiday Market at Auburn University's Pebble Hill
2023-12-02 09:00 - 15:00 | Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, 101 S. Debardeleben St., Auburn, AL, 36849-5637, United States
Make plans to join us now on Saturday, December 2, 2023 at our Annual Holiday Market at Pebble Hill on Auburn University’s campus. Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Pebble Hill
Sponsored by Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities
Date: December 2nd, 2023
Time: 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM
Join the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities and Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center for a special holiday event at Pebble Hill.
The day will include a holiday market, live music, artist demonstrations, and refreshments. The free event is sponsored by Black Belt Treasures Cultural Art Center and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.
Featured artists:
Andrew McCall
Sarah Cole (Abadir’s)
Betty Anderson
Laura Spencer (Simply Making It)
Claudia Pettway Charley
Mary Virginia Pettway
Lisa Lemler, Carole Bandy Carson
Bud Rogers
Kristin Law
Laura Murray Creative.
About Black Belt Treasures:
Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center is a non-profit organization based in Camden, Alabama. The organization was started with the objective to stimulate the economy in Alabama’s Black Belt region through the sale and promotion of fine arts and heritage crafts, as well as the provision of arts education opportunities

The Best of the Shortest group talk and signing
2023-12-02 15:00 - 16:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Contributors to a fabulous new anthology of Southern writers, titled The Best of the Shortest, will be our guests at a program celebrating the recent release of that book. Suzanne Hudson, co-editor of the volume, along with Marlin “Bart” Barton, Joe Taylor, Jim Gilbert, and others will be our guests, reading from their work. Michael Knight is right about the book when he says, “This collection is quite positively on fire with humor and heartache, darkness and light, and countless blazing turns of phrase.” Come meet the artists and fall in love with short fiction all over again, as we did in shaping this program.

Reading of Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner
2023-12-03 15:00 - 17:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
The best event of Montgomery’s 2023 holiday season may be our one-afternoon-only reading of The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder, which John Martello kindly agreed to take on as a project for The NewSouth Bookstore. The little-performed play, short in running length, showcases the lives of several generations of the Bayard family, and some of their Christmas dinners, over a period of nine decades. Wilder breaks the boundaries of time as we measure it, and invites us to partake of “one long, happy Christmas dinner” — past, present and future. As generations appear, have children, wither and depart, only the audience appreciates what changes and what remains the same. This is a masterpiece of twentieth-century theater — a little gem. The reading is directed by John Martello, with Judith Broadway, Rodney Clark, Greta Lambert, Maire Martello, and Greg Thornton in the cast.

The NewSouth Bookstore hosting Ed George with Starlight and Other Stories
2023-12-12 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Author Ed George closes out our 2023 bookstore events season with a reading and talk about his newest book, Starlight and Other Stories. We know George as a poet (and artist/musician). His new book of stories is one of wry reflection, not without gentle humor and surprise. Read aloud, these are most enjoyable. Come congratulate Ed on publication of his latest writing project and hear what he’s been up to, and also meet artist Donna Pate, whose lovely oil painting graces the cover of George’s new book. She will be bringing the original painting, along with some of her other works.

Geminga 2024: $500 for Tiny Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Graphic Novel or Art
2024-01-01 - 2024-02-03 | Online, NC
Sunspot’s Geminga contest offers $500 for Tiny Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, or Art. No restrictions on theme or category. Submissions may be excerpts from longer works. Opening January 1- 31. Entry fee: $12.50. Enter through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/280341/geminga-24-500-for-tiny-fiction-nonfiction-poetry-graphic-novel-or-art or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/sunspot-literary-journal-LIXJW.

Susan Willis with Shakespeare's First Folio
2024-01-14 15:00 - 17:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
The Bard and his book: The First Folio collected thirty-six of William Shakespeare’s plays, including eighteen that had never been printed before, seven years after his death. Come celebrate the 400th anniversary of its making with Susan Willis, Shakespeare scholar and former resident dramaturg for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF). Willis will make a lively presentation about the iconic work — called the most important secular book of the Western world, typos and all — for your education and merriment. This program has been arranged by The NewSouth Bookstore in collaboration with ASF. Thanks, Layne Holley! Again, that’s Sunday, January 14 at 3pm.

Alexander Heffner Book Talk: "A Documentary History of the United States."
2024-01-17 17:30 - 18:30 | Barnes & Noble at the Summit, 201 Summit Boulevard Suite 100, Birmingham, AL, 35243, United States
Join Alabama Humanities Alliance on January 17 for a book talk and book-signing event with journalist and civic educator Alexander Heffner. Presented by the Alabama Humanities Alliance in partnership with our friends at the David Mathews Center for Civic Life.
Heffner is the host of PBS’ “The Open Mind” and “Breaking Bread with Alexander,” seen on Bloomberg TV. He is also co-editor of “A Documentary History of the United States,” a fascinating collection, and interpretation, of documents that have forged American history.
The book — first published in 1952 by Heffner’s grandfather, the late historian Richard D. Heffner — has been updated by Alexander to include more recent history. The book includes everything from America’s founding documents, Supreme Court decisions, and inaugural addresses to era-defining speeches, letters, poems, debates, and even…tweets.

An Evening with Stacy Willingham: Unveiling Secrets, Twists, and Thrills!
2024-01-18 17:30 - 20:00 | The Haunted Book Shop, 9 S JOACHIM ST, MOBILE, AL, 36602-2707, United States
Prepare for an evening you won’t forget! The Haunted Book Shop is thrilled to host New York Times Bestselling author Stacy Willingham for an in-conversation and to sign her upcoming thriller “Only If You’re Lucky.” If you’ve been captivated by “A Flicker in the Dark” or been on the edge of your seat with “All the Dangerous Things,” you won’t want to miss this!
What’s In Store?
In-conversation: Stacy Willingham will dish with bestselling author Manda Collins about creating and writing the twisty plots, suspenseful scenes, and wicked characters we all love. Limited seating.
Book Signing: Stacy Willingham will be signing copies of her latest thriller, which delves deep into the complexities of female friendship and the dark places envy and loyalty can take you.
Specialty Cocktails: Next door at The Alchemy, enjoy a Stacy Willingham-themed cocktail menu.
Ease Your Wait!
We’ll be using a timed-entry system for the book signing. So instead of tiring while you wait, you’ll have more time to explore and sip on those delicious cocktails!
Purchase of the book equals your ticket to the event.
About the Author
STACY WILLINGHAM is the New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark, All the Dangerous Things and Only If You’re Lucky. Her debut, A Flicker in the Dark, was a 2022 finalist for the Book of the Month’s Book of the Year award, Goodreads Choice Best Debut award, Goodreads Choice Best Mystery & Thriller award, and ITW’s Best First Novel award. Her work has been translated in more than thirty languages. Before turning to fiction, she was a copywriter and brand strategist for various marketing agencies. She earned her B.A. in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia and M.F.A. in writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Britt, and Labradoodle, Mako.
Tickets are limited. Purchase your book (and your ticket!) now to secure your spot in an evening of mystery, suspense, and literary delight!
Looking forward to seeing you there!

Third Thursday Poetry Series featuring Virginia Poet Jim Peterson
2024-01-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, 101 S. Debardeleben St., Auburn, AL, 36849-5637, United States
The next Third Thursday Poetry reading, featuring Virginia poet Jim Peterson, will be at 6:30 p.m., on January 18, at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities on Debardeleben Street in Auburn (Pebble Hill). Open bar and hors d’oeuvres available beginning at 6 p.m. Prior to Jim’s reading, there will be a brief open mic session for local poets.
The Third Thursday Poetry Series is supported by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center, the Auburn University Department of English, OLLI at Auburn University, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Burgin Mathews with Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America
2024-01-21 15:00 - 17:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Burgin Mathews is our special guest on Sunday, January 21 at 3pm with his new book, Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America. Mathews is a multitalented writer, educator, and creator of the popular radio show, The Lost Child, which showcases a wide range of downhome roots music: rhythm and blues, classic country, Southern soul, gospel, and rockabilly, to name just a few. It’s no surprise then that his new book authoritatively and engagingly recounts Birmingham’s distinctive jazz heritage. Tune in to his talk about it at The NewSouth Bookstore.

Howell Raines and Silent Cavalry at Alabama Booksmith
2024-01-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Alabama Booksmith, 2626 19th Pl S Homewood, AL, 35209, 2626 19th Pl S, Homewood, AL, 35209, United States
SILENT CAVALRY: HOW UNION SOLDIERS FROM ALABAMA HELPED SHERMAN BURN ATLANTA AND THEN GOT WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY finally sets the record straight after Lost Cause historians distorted what really happened. This veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former executive editor of The New York Times has written an epic story that took him six decades.
You may purchase signed first editions of SILENT CAVALRY (36.00) to pick up at the event, at the store later, or have them carefully wrapped and mailed worldwide from the Alabama Booksmith website.

Dr. Lee Farrow's Third Talk On Great 19th-Century Russian Writers
2024-01-25 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Lee Farrow returns for the last talk in her series about the great nineteenth-century Russian writers — and, friends, hasn’t it been fabulous? The work of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky is the subject of this next program, as Dr. Farrow leads us on another quick dive into the heart and soul of old Russia, looking at the political and cultural forces that shaped its greatest writers. Mark your calendar to be at The NewSouth Bookstore on Thursday, January 25 at 5:30pm. A toast to Dr. Farrow for her generosity in presenting!

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, and the Power of Knowing Our Roots
2024-01-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Pratt City Branch, Birmingham Public Library
Explore how we’re all connected to (and separated from) each other in ways that go further back than most of us imagine. The sort of ways that Huntsville native Yaa Gyasi examined to craft her vital and epic novel, Homegoing.
With Zanice Bond, Apart Dwivedi, Anamaria Santiago, and Francine Taylor.
