Alabama Writers' Forum

Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop for Aspiring Teen Writers
2024-06-10 08:00 - 2024-06-28 17:00 (America/Chicago) | UAB’s Spencer Honors House, 1190 10th Ave. S., Birmingham, AL, 35205, United States
UAB’s Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop offers an exciting creative writing opportunity for your student this summer, June 10-28th. Please encourage them to apply and/or invite the Director, Tina Braziel, to talk with your students about it and/or provide creative writing instruction.
Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop is an exciting and rewarding day camp for aspiring teen writers! They will work with published authors to draft, edit and publish stories, screenplays, podcast, poetry and more. They will find inspiration from Birmingham’s rich culture and history during field trips and special activities!
Dates: 9 am – 3 pm, M-F, June 10-28th, 2024
Location: UAB’s Spencer Honors House (1190 10th Ave S. Birmingham, AL)
Telephone: (205) 934-8573 office 205-276-1818 cell
Scholarships: Full and partial scholarships for anyone who finds the workshop fee cost prohibitive.
Email: tmharris@uab.edu
More information, pictures, examples of student work and application information can be found at: https://www.uab.edu/cas/english/events/ada-long-workshop?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2a6wBhCVARIsABPeH1vL-6KOYLoI-lRt5WR1PwredgzcVRGM5RwJrQ-yviMiJ6T4CupoLTsaAi0pEALw_wcB
Tina Mozelle Braziel, Director
Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop
https://www.uab.edu/cas/english/events/ada-long-workshop

An Evening with Constance Fay: Fiasco
2024-06-08 17:30 - 21:00 | The Haunted Book Shop, 9 S JOACHIM ST, MOBILE, AL, 36602-2707, United States
Join us for “An Evening with Constance Fay” on June 8th at The Haunted Book Shop. Sci-fi romance author, Constance Fay, will discuss her latest page-turning intergalactic saga, “FIASCO”. Known for her ability to blend steamy romance with space-age adventure, Constance Fay is turning heads in the genre.
WHAT’S IN STORE
In-Conversation: Constance Fay will have a Q&A with a fellow author (author TBA)
Book Signing: Constance Fay will be signing copies of FIASCO. Only books purchased from The Haunted Book Shop may be personalized by the author.
Specialty Cocktails: Next door at The Alchemy, enjoy a Constance Fay-themed cocktail menu.
Purchase of the FIASCO equals your ticket to the event.
Mark your calendars, invite fellow book enthusiasts, and anticipate an evening filled with laughter and romance.
Only books purchased from us can be personalized. We will also have her first book CALAMITY available.
About FIASCO
Equal parts steamy interstellar romance and sci-fi adventure, Constance Fay’s FIASCO is a perfect wild romp amidst the stars.
Cynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She’s Generosity, a cultist who never quite fit in. She’s Bella, the daughter who failed to save her cousin’s life. And then there’s Cyn, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers.
She’s exhausted, lonely, and on her very last legs—but then a new client offers her a job she can’t refuse: a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin. All Cyn has to do is partner with the crew of the Calamity, a scouting vessel she encountered when she was living under a previous alias. One tiny little issue, she’s been given an additional bounty: deliver the oh-so-compelling medic, Micah Arora, to the treacherous Pierce Family or all her identities will be revealed, putting her estranged family in danger.
Hunting a kidnapper doesn’t usually mean accidentally taking your sexy new target to dinner at your parent’s house, a local mystic predicting you’ll have an increasingly large number of children, or being accompanied by a small flying lizard with a penchant for eating metal, but, as they field investigative hurdles both dangerous and preposterous, Cyn and Micah grow ever closer. When a violent confrontation reveals that everything Cyn thought about her past is wrong, she realizes that she has the power to change her future. The first part of that is making sure that Micah Arora is around to be a part of it.
About Constance Fay
Constance Fay writes space romance novels and genre fiction short stories. Her short fiction can be found in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Catscast podcast, and other publications. She has a background in medical device R&D and lives in Colorado with a cat who edits all her work first.

Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder at The NewSouth Bookstore Saturday, June 8 at 3pm!
2024-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Join us at The NewSouth Bookstore for a special program arranged in partnership with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF): Playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder will talk about her semi autobiographical Southern story of love, loss and restoration. When Libby returns to her father’s home, she learns that he’s left her with the remains of an old Rolls Royce Phantom, which she names Zelda, and a surprising discovery to be made about his life. The talented playwright, a 2024 Tennessee Arts Commission Fellow with a dozen plays to her name, will share insights about the writing of “Zelda in the Backyard” and her inspirations for it. Thanks to ASF for co-hosting!

AI and Creativity
2024-06-08 - 2024-06-30 | Online, NC
Sunspot Lit is exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and creativity in prose, poetry, and art. Submissions will be considered for publication in the quarterly digital and annual print editions. Submit here https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/281493/ai-and-creativity-2024 before June 30th.

Garrett Ashley and Ken Autrey reading from new works at The NewSouth Bookstore!
2024-06-06 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Two local writing talents read from their new work at The NewSouth Bookstore on Thursday, June 6 at 5:30pm. Garrett Ashley’s short story collection, Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions, introduces a rare tableau of characters that collectively define our humanity. Circulation by Ken Autrey is a gorgeous set of elegies that shows an attentiveness to the power of the past with its riches and sorrows. Come enjoy the pleasures of listening to and discussion about good writing with these emerging voices.

Join us to celebrate the release of Old Enough: Southern Women On Creativity And Aging at The NewSouth Bookstore Sunday, June 2 at 3:00pm!
2024-06-02 15:00 - 16:30 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
We are excited to welcome a half dozen contributors to Old Enough: Southern Women on Creativity and Aging to The NewSouth Bookstore on Sunday, June 2 at 3pm. Join us for readings and lively discussion about the topic of this important new book, published by NewSouth Books, a really fine project led by Jay Lamar and Jennifer Horne with Katie Lamar Jackson and Wendy Reed, and featuring essays from Jacqueline Allen Trimble, Jeanie Thomspon and others. Meet these contributors and enjoy a stimulating program focused on what it means to age creatively tied to the release of this beautiful new book, a volume NPR correspondent Debbie Elliott calls “a gift, one which confronts cliched thinking about ‘women of a certain age’ with grace, humor, and candor.” It’s not soon enough for Old Enough!

The Louisville Review's National Poetry Book Contest
2024-06-01 - 2024-08-31 | Online Submissions only, The Louisvilel Review, 1436 St. James Court, Louisville, KY, 40213, United States
The Louisville Review is thrilled to announce that Jeanie Thompson will serve as distinguished judge for our 2024 National Poetry Book Contest!
This first-book contest invites poets living in the United States who have not yet published a full-length book of poetry to submit manuscripts of 48-70 pages.
Winner will receive $1,000 and Publication through The Louisville Review’s Fleur-de-Lis Press, 25 author copies, and distribution through Barnes & Nobel and Amazon.
The winning book will be reviewed online in North American Review, the longest running literary magazine in the nation.
Finalists will receive publication of a selected, previously unpublished poem in The Louisville Review, and we will hold an online reading for the winner and finalists.
The reading fee of $25 includes a 1-year print subscription to The Louisville Review.
Full details here: https://louisvillereview.org

Alabama State Poetry Society Online Open Mic
2024-05-27 18:30 - 19:30, 2024-04-22 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

A Carolyn Haines Launch Party!
2024-05-23 17:30 - 19:30 | The Haunted Book Shop, 9 S JOACHIM ST, MOBILE, AL, 36602-2707, United States
Join us for a launch party in honor of Mobile mystery novel phenom Carolyn Haines on May 23, as we celebrate her latest novel, “Lights, Camera, Bones.” We’re rolling out all the frills for Carolyn with a specialty cocktail menu at Happy Hour pricing, putting Carolyn on the hot seat for an audience Q&A, book signing line, and, most certainly when Carolyn is involved, unknown hijinks and hilarity.
In “Lights, Camera, Bones,” we step again into the shoes of the much-loved character Sarah Booth Delaney, a fiery and resourceful private investigator from the South famously described by Kirkus Reviews as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” The drama unfolds on a movie set in Greenville, right on the Mississippi River where Delaney Detective Agency faces a unique challenge with the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy political scion while filming a story about the 1927 flood that devastated Greenville. The subsequent discovery of a severed foot suggests a disastrous encounter with a bull shark, but as rumors circulate, the human element cannot be discounted. Delaney, along with her associates, must navigate a complex maze of evidence to solve this alarming mystery.
Make sure your funny bone and curious mind are intact for this event. It is one you won’t want to miss!
Book purchase from The Haunted Book Shop is required to enter the signing line.

Del Shores Foundation Call for Submissions
2024-05-23 08:00 - 2024-07-31 17:00 | Del Shores Foundation
CALL FOR UNPRODUCED SCRIPTS BY LGBTQ+ SOUTHERN WRITERS
The third Del Shores Foundation Writers Search is now open for submissions from unproduced playwrights and screenwriters whoidentify as LGBTQ+ and currently live in the South. CASH AWARDS are given to the semifinalists, finalists and winners andPRODUCTION GRANTS accompany the winning scripts to move their work toward production. USE WAIVER CODE “DSFAL” for FREE SUBMISSION. Final submission deadline 7/31/24. For more information and submissions visit https://www.delshoresfoundation.org/

Austin Film Festival Extends Submission Deadline to May 31!
2024-05-23 08:00 - 2024-05-31 23:59
Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition takes all kinds of submissions, including screenplays, teleplays, stage plays, scripted digital series, and fiction podcasts. To submit, visit https://austinfilmfestival.com/submit/ and use the discount AFFWG24 for $5 off your submission fee.

We can’t wait to read your scripts so submit them today!

Christina Lauren Block Party: The Paradise Problem
2024-05-18 17:30 - 22:00 | The Haunted Book Shop, 9 S JOACHIM ST, MOBILE, AL, 36602-2707, United States
Christina Lauren is coming to town on May 18th, and we’re celebrating their 30th novel with a block party! We will have an in-conversation Q&A with the writing duo known as Christina Lauren, a curated vendor market, a special Christina Lauren cocktail menu at Alchemy Tavern, sangrias at Penton’s Bistro, and a photo station to capture the fun!
WHAT’S IN STORE
In-Conversation: Christina Lauren will have a Q&A with a fellow author (author TBA)
Block Party: Our section of Conti Street will be blocked off and will have curated vendors for your shopping pleasure
Photo Line: Timed-entry for the photo line to get your photo with Christina Lauren
Specialty Cocktails: Next door at The Alchemy, enjoy a Christina Lauren-themed cocktail menu or partake of sangrias at Penton’s Bistro
Purchase of the hardcover of THE PARADISE PROBLEM equals your ticket to the event.
Grab your tickets and books early – you won’t want to miss this!
Purchase of the hardcover of THE PARADISE PROBLEM from our bookstore is required for entry.
Important Information/Rules per Publisher – PLEASE READ
Your ticket will get you a pre-signed copy of THE PARADISE PROBLEM. Signature only. No personalizations per the request of the authors.
Additional backlist will be made available for purchase (see Add-Ons when selecting tickets). Backlist will also be pre-signed and have Christina Lauren’s signature only.
Personal backlist from home will not be permitted and will not be signed by Christina Lauren.
All attendees will receive an exclusive tour art print inspired by the book.
Christina Lauren will be posing for fan photos once the Q&A has concluded. They will not be signing or personalizing books in this line.
We’d like to thank the following sponsors and partners!
The Alchemy Tavern
Penton’s Bistro
Mobile Bay Magazine
Downtown Mobile Alliance
More details to come.
About THE PARADISE PROBLEM
Christina Lauren, the instant New York Times bestselling and “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar), returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.
Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.
Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There’s just one catch.
Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather’s will, Liam won’t see a penny until he’s been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he’s in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he’s afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents—his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife.
But in the presence of his family, Liam’s fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie.
About Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, The Unhoneymooners, Twice in a Blue Moon, The Soulmate Equation, Something Wilder, and The True Love Experiment. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com and @ChristinaLauren on Instagram or Twitter.

Third Thursday Poetry Reading at Auburn
2024-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, 101 S. Debardeleben St., Auburn, AL, 36849-5637, United States
Our final Third Thursday poetry reading of this season will take place at 6:30 on May 16 at Pebble Hill in Auburn. Wine and snacks will be served beginning at 6.

This month’s program will feature a series of brief readings by 12 writers living in the Auburn-Opelika area.

This series is supported by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, Department of English, and Southern Humanities Review in the college of Liberal arts at Auburn University; the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University; and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Dominic Erdozain at The NewSouth Bookstore Thursday, May 16 at 5:30pm!
2024-05-16 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Historian Dominic Erdozain’s “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (NYTimes) takedown of American gun culture is a new book and the subject of the talk he will give at The NewSouth Bookstore on Thursday, May 16 at 5:30pm. We are so fortunate to have Erdozain — a graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, currently a visiting professor at Emory University — stop at the store with his newly released One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy, which one critic says “goes wide and deep on the critical issues.” This is going to be a fascinating program. Don’t miss it.

Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones to Read at Auburn University Montgomery on May 8, 4:30 p.m.
2024-05-08 16:30 - 17:30 | AUM, 7400 East Drive, Montgomery, AL, United States
Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley Jones will discuss creativity and empathy during an open public session hosted by AUM’s Civil Rights & Civic Virtue Society as part of the May 8-9 “Out of the Box: Workshop on Teaching and Learning.”

Members of the campus community are invited to attend Jones’ presentation, “Imagine Us In Love With The World: How Poetry and Empathy Can Save Us All,” on Wednesday, May 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Goodwyn Hall 109.

Jones, who serves as associate director of UAB’s Honors Program, received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 2022. She is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival and a board member of the Alabama Writers Cooperative and the Alabama Writers Forum.

Her debut poetry collection, “Magic City Gospel,” was published by Hub City Press in 2017 and earned a silver medal in poetry at the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her second book, “dark // thing,” won the 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press.

Jones’ third collection was published in 2021.

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Go and Write! Retreat to Kingsbrae, Spring or Autumn—St. Andrews by-the-Sea, New Brunswick (Canada)
2024-05-04 08:00 - 2024-05-11 17:00 | Kingsbrae Estate, St. Andrews by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, Canada, New Brunswick, Canada
May 4-11 or October 23-30, 2024. Small group retreats (only 5 rooms). Private, ensuite bedroom in historic mansion, private writing studio, workshops, written feedback, and dedicated writing time. All breakfasts and three suppers included.

Submissions Open for the James Baker Hall Book Award
2024-05-01 08:00 - 2024-06-30 17:00
Accents Publishing is honored to partner with the JamesBaker Hall Foundation to launch the James Baker Hall Book Award. The inaugural award will be given in poetry to an emerging author who hasn’t yet published a full-length collection.
In 2024, the award will recognize an unpublished manuscript of over 50 pages by a Kentucky author. The author of the winning manuscript will receive a $3000 award and the manuscript will be published the following year by Accents Publishing, with the standard Accents Publishing contract.
Manuscripts can be submitted between May 1st and June 30th.
There is no submission fee.
Acclaimed poet Greg Pape will be the final judge.
For more details, please visit https://www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html

Solar Flare contest offers $500 for Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Art, or Graphic Novel
2024-05-01 - 2024-05-31 | Online, NC
Sunspot Lit is looking for one work, including a novel or novella excerpt, that provides a flare of creative energy. Literary or genre accepted. First prize: $500 plus publication. Open May 1 to May 31. Entry fee: $10 Enter through Submittable: https://sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit/280392/solar-flare-2024-500-for-fiction-cnf-poetry-art-graphic-novel or Duotrope: https://duotrope.com/contest/sunspot-lit-solar-flare-contest-36652.

Poetry to the People: Historical Narratives of Poetry's Powerful Influence on Justice and the Legacy of Civil Rights in Birmingham
2024-04-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL, 35203, United States
Humanities scholar Salaam Green, Birmingham’s first poet laureate, will present a scholarly literature/history lecture and discussion: Poetry to the People: Historical Narratives of Poetry’s Powerful Influence on Justice and the Legacy of Civil Rights in Birmingham, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5-6 p.m. ⁠This poem is in partnership with the Alabama State Poetry Society.
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As part of this scholarly lecture, Salaam will read from recent works on the lecture theme. This open-to-the-public, free event will be presented in the first-floor space at the Birmingham Public Library located at 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, Alabama. Guests will receive eco-friendly pencils and thought journals to take notes and write questions—encouraging participation in the Question/Answer portion of the program.⁠
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Click the link below to register for the event!⁠
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https://www.magiccitypoetryfestival.org/…/poetry-to-the…

"The Hallelujah Girls" a James Hope Wooten Comedy
2024-04-28 14:00 - 15:30, 2024-04-27 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-04-26 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-04-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Millbrook Theatre, 5720 Main St., Millbrook, AL, 36054, United States
THE STORY: Hilarity abounds when the feisty females of Eden Falls, Georgia, decide to shake up their lives. The action in this rollicking Southern comedy takes place in SPA-DEE-DAH!, the abandoned church-turned-day-spa where this group of friends gathers every Friday afternoon. After the loss of a dear friend, the women realize time is precious, and if they’re going to change their lives and achieve their dreams, they have to get on it now! – Dramatists Play Service
Shows begin on April 18 and run through April 28. See website for shows and times.
For Tickets, please visit the Millbrook Players Website: https://www.millbrooktheater.com/2024-season.html

Please Read Carefully: NO refunds – You should receive a receipt from PayPal, but not from MCP. All you need to bring to the door is the name under which the ticket was purchased.
Directed by Cheryl Phillips

Magic City Poetry Festival: Poetry at the Monument
2024-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 | St. Paul UMC, 1500 6th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL, 35203, United States
Each year, MCPF brings poetry alive in unlikely places like public parks and national monuments, and this year we will reprise our popular Poetry at the Monument event, featuring poets Jermaine Thompson, Tania De’Shawn, and Lakisha Cargill on Saturday, April 27, 2-4 p.m., at the St. Paul’s UMC, 1500 6th Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama.
Poetry at the Monument, sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and hosted at the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, will feature these three local poets who will share work related to civil rights and social justice.

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Magic City Poetry Festival: For Colored Girls with Joi Miner
2024-04-26 19:00 - 21:30 | Miles College, 5500 Myron Massey Blvd., Fairfield, AL, 35064, United States
America’s Next Great Author winner, poet and novelist Joi Miner will revive her production of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking choreopoem, for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow was enuf. This is MCPF’s first theatrical event, and we’re excited to share it with our community! Friday, April 26, 7 p.m. at Miles College, 5500 Myron Massey Blvd., Fairfield, AL 35064
Admission is FREE.
Help us continue our conversation by giving today with your registration.

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So You've Written a Book Manuscript...What's Next?
2024-04-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
The Alabama Writers’ Forum has put together an expert panel to give you advice on how to get published. Join us next Thursday, April 25th at 3pm for a live, free zoom workshop, featuring: Sue Brannan Walker, Publisher and Editor, Negative Capability Press; Daniel Waterman, Editor-in-Chief, University of Alabama Press; Kim Shackelford, Co-Owner, Beach Bards Publishing.

The link to register is on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alabamawritersforum
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCFlyJSkHlHChANYRd2Iw_mq9At3LxqlYCMni23K4cKq8ypg/viewform?pli=1

The NewSouth Bookstore celebrates Women's History Month with its first ever group read!
2024-04-23 17:30 - 19:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
March is Women’s History Month. This year, we’re organizing our first bookstore group read — think of it as a one-time, one-book book club — in recognition of it. Our selection for the group read is Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. The work by Jill Lepore — American historian and journalist on faculty at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker, and author of more than a dozen books — was published in 2013. It was a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book. It’s a tour-de-force that is simultaneously “a fascinating look at early America, a meditation on one remarkable mind by another, and, implicitly, a biography of all the other Janes—history’s anonymous and overlooked women” (New York Magazine).
With this post we are formally announcing the group read. We have a large stack of copies of the book at The NewSouth Bookstore awaiting purchase ($19). Those wishing to participate may take January through early April to read the book. We will gather for discussion in the bookstore on April 23 at 5:30pm. Sign-up is suggested: jessala.white@newsouthbookstore.com. All are invited, irrespective of sex/gender. Thank you for considering this announcement your personal invitation to be part of what will be an exciting Women’s History Month event!

Mary Dearborn at The NewSouth Bookstore Sunday, April 21 at 3pm!
2024-04-21 15:00 - 17:00 | The NewSouth Bookstore, 105 S. Court St, Montgomery, 36104, United States
Mary Dearborn is our guest at the bookstore on Sunday, April 21 at 3pm for a talk about her major new release, Carson McCullers: A Life. The first biography of McCullers in more than twenty years, Dearborn takes advantage in her writing of a cache of newly available journals and letters to craft an admiring but clear-eyed appraisal of McCullers art and enigmatic life. Her book is rich in insights. So too will be her talk. Mark your calendars to be with us for this special event.

Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel present GLASS CABIN
2024-04-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Thank You Books, 5502 Crestwood Blvd Unit B, Birmingham, AL, 35212, United States
Join Thank You Books for an afternoon with husband-and-wife authors and UAB professors Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel, and to celebrate their fascinating new book of poetry.
“GLASS CABIN chronicles the thirteen years Tina and James spent building their home out of second-hand tin, tornado-snapped power poles, and church glass on a waterless ridge in rural Alabama. Their alternating voices support one another like parts of their cabin—every board needs its nail, every window needs its frame. These poems explore the work it takes to measure cuts for stairs, to haul water—one ton at a time—up the side of the mountain, and to write. It is also a meditation on hope, on frustration, and their place in the wilder parts of the world.”
The event is free but registration is encouraged: please register here
James and Tina Mozelle Braziel are a husband-and-wife writing team. They have received fellowships from Hot Springs National Park and Alabama State Council on the Arts. James’s book, This Ditch-Walking Love, winner of the Tartt Fiction Award, tells the stories of people living on Alabama’s Cumberland Plateau. His novels Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam) and Snakeskin Road (Bantam) are about the survivors of an environmental disaster in the future South. James, an associate professor, teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Tina Mozelle Braziel is the author of Known by Salt (Anhinga), winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly). Her work has appeared in POETRY and other journals. Tina directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop for high school students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. James and Tina live and write in a glass cabin that they are building by hand on Hydrangea Ridge.
