AWF News
Winners of the 2025 Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards Announced!
Since 1994, the Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards have recognized young writers, their teachers, and schools each year for their work in creative writing. The annual program focuses on nurturing talent in high schools across Alabama. Competition categories are: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Senior Portfolio and Literary Magazine. The judging panel is comprised of leading writers and educators from across the state. The competition is funded in part by the Alabama State [...]
Alabama Writers’ Forum and Mobile Poet Laureate Charlotte Pence awarded Grant
The Alabama Writers' Forum and Mobile Poet Laureate Charlotte Pence have been awarded a grant from the American Academy of Poets. From the American Academy of Poets: "The Academy of American Poets, a leading champion of poets and poetry for ninety years, announced today that it will award $50,000 each to twenty-two poets serving as poets laureate in cities and states across the United States. In addition, the Academy will provide $90,944 total in matching [...]
The Alabama Writers’ Forum welcomes Tina Mozelle Braziel to our Board of Directors
The Alabama Writers' Forum is proud to welcome poet Tina Mozelle Braziel to our Board of Directors. Tina Mozelle Braziel won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for Known by Salt (Anhinga Press). She co-authored Glass Cabin (Pulley Press) with her husband, writer James Braziel. An Alabama Poetry Delegate, she has been awarded a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, an artist residency at Hot Springs National Park, and the first Eco-Poetry [...]
Alabama Writers Hall of Fame Class of 2025 Announced
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The Alabama Center for the Book and the Alabama Writers' Forum are excited to announce the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame Class of 2025! Eight distinguished authors will be inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame at The University of Alabama’s Bryant Conference Center on Friday, March 7th , 2025. The 2025 class inductees include Ace Atkins, Frye Gaillard, Joy Harjo, Janice Harrington, Robert McCammon, and Dr. Sue Walker. Authors C. [...]
Five Favorites with Robert Bailey
We asked Robert Bailey, bestselling author of the Jason Rich series and the Bocephus Haynes series, for his five favorite legal thrillers. Robert Bailey is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Jason Rich series, the McMurtrie and Drake legal thrillers series, the Bocephus Haynes series, and the inspirational novel, The Golfer's Carol. Robert was born in Huntsville, Alabama, the son of a builder and a schoolteacher. From the time he could walk, he's [...]
Five Favorites with Charlotte Pence
We asked Dr. Charlotte Pence, the Poet Laureate of Mobile, for her five favorite books set in Mobile. Charlotte Pence is Mobile, Alabama’s inaugural poet laureate. Author of two full-length poetry books, two award-winning chapbooks, a composition handbook, and editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics, Dr. Charlotte Pence is the director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama. Recent honors include a Patterson Fellowship from Vanderbilt [...]
