AWF News
Creative Writing Program, “Writing Our Stories” is helping troubled youth in Mobile County
Thank you to FOX10 News in Mobile for featuring Kate Duthu, Teaching Writer in our award-winning Writing Our Stories program, who shares about her experience teaching creative writing to incarcerated youth in the city. Read the full story here.
Alabama Writers’ Forum Recognizes 94 High School Writers Statewide
Each year, the Alabama Writers’ Forum recognizes outstanding young writers, their teachers and schools with the Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards. This year, more than 300 submissions were received from high schools across the state, from Anniston to Gulf Shores. Twenty-five top level awards were given, including four for literary magazines and four senior scholarships. Ninety-four winners were recognized in total. Dr. Susie Paul, former AUM English professor and chair of the AHSLAA judges, [...]
Writing Our Stories Pilots in Mobile
This spring, youth at Strickland Youth Center and POINTE Academy in Mobile have had the opportunity to participate in a 10-week creative writing program called Writing Our Stories. A condensed version of the Alabama Writers' Forum's well-established program serving middle school and high school students in the Montgomery, Birmingham and Shelby County areas, the spring program is a pilot for the Mobile County area. Writing Our Stories, established in 1997 as a partnership between AWF [...]
An Afternoon with Daniel Wallace held on 22 September 2019
The Alabama Writers’ Forum’s “An Afternoon with author Daniel Wallace,” a fundraiser to celebrate 25 years of service by the Alabama Writers’ Forum, was held on September 22, 2019 in the Dorothy Jemison Day Theater at the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA), Birmingham, AL. The event included special recognition of Alabama’s award-winning young authors through the Forum’s High School Literary Arts Awards, a 25-year-old program that recognizes young writers grades 9-12, their teachers, [...]
