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Larry Baker's novel about a
Florida man building the world's largest drive-in movie theater comes to the
small screen this month. The Flamingo Rising, the Hallmark Hall of
Fame special, airs February 4, 2001 on CBS (9-11 pm, ET/PT). The cast
includes William Hurt, Elizabeth McGovern and Brian Benben.
The Southeast Bookseller
Association will present the 2001 SEBA Book Awards on April 21, 2001 at
Vero Beach, Florida. For more information: http://www.sebaweb.org
The 2001 SEBA Book Award winners
are:
Fiction: Jim the Boy,
Tony Early, Little Brown & Co.
Non-Fiction: Somebody
Told Me, Rick Bragg, University of Alabama Press
Poetry: Zinc Fingers,
Peter Meinke, University of Pittsburgh Press
Children: Because of
Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo, Candlewick Press
37th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards
will be presented March 17, 2001 in Macon, Georgia. The event sponsored by
Georgia Writers, Inc. and hosted by Mercer University Press, will be held at
Connell Student Center at Mercer University.
For more information: http://www.mindspring.com/~gawriter/GAYAinvite.htm
Nominees for the Georgia Author of the Year Awards include:
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FIRST NOVEL |
FICTION |
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Cliff Chandler
- The Paragons
Jerry Lee Davis
- Twin City
Barbara Jones
- Moonlight Bowl Manifesto
Paul T. McHenry III
- Code Name: Antidote
Sylvia Sammons Spivey
- The Pocket Sack
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Beverly Connor
- Airtight Case
Nora DeLoach
- Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows
Pam Durban
- So Far Back
Joyce Rockwood Hudson
- Apalachee
Terry Kay
- Taking Lottie Home
Fred Willard
- Princess Naughty and The Voodoo Cadillac
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| SHORT
STORIES/ANTHOLOGIES |
HEALING/INSPIRATIONAL |
- Michael
Bishop
- Blue Kansas Sky
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Mark Ballard
- Colorful Comedies & Creative Celebrations
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Jimmy Jacobs
- Moonlight Through the Pines
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Frank Manley
- Among Prisoners
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Donna Ball, Sandra Chastain, Debra Dixon,
- Nancy
Knight, Deborah Smith
- Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
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- Marsha Maurer
- In the Garden
Mardeene Burr Mitchell
- Ten Secrets for Mind/Body Healing
Melonda Pace
- He Turned my Dung into Fertilizer
Crystaline Joi Prothro
- Happy On A Virgin's Island
Niki Collins Queen
- Earth, The Forgotten Temple
George Statham
- Science, Scripture and Truth
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|
MEMOIR |
ESSAY |
- Cornelia Walker Bailey with
Christena Bledsoe God, Dr Buzzard, and the Bolito Man
Celestine Sibley Fleming
- A Granddaughter's Reminiscence
Benjamin Hirsch
- Hearing a Different Drummer
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Grace Bryan Holmes
- Time to Reconcile
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Hamilton Jordan
- No Such Thing as a Bad Day
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Kathy Williams
- Thorns of Two Roses
C. Richard Yarbrough
- And They Call Them Games
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- Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Woman in Front of the Sun
Jackie K. Cooper
- Journey of a Gentle Southern Man
Kenny Fussell
- When Even Your Mama Can't Help
Steven Harvey
- Bound for Shady Grove
Paul Hemphill
- The Ballad of Little River
Tim Homan
- Hiking Trails of the Cohutta & Big Frog Wilderness
Hellyn Lackey Jordan
- Escape From the Little White Crosses
Terry Kay
- Special Kay
Terry L. Maple
- Saving the Giant Panda
Frank Young writing as Frank Writer
- Queen Bee
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| BIOGRAPHY |
HISTORICAL
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Constance Curry
- Aaron Henry
Sarah Gordon
- Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination
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Craig Lloyd
- Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris
Mary Padgelek
- In the Hand of the Holy Spirit
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Bill Boyd
- Blind Obedience
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William Harris Bragg
- Griswoldville
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Constance Curry, Editor
- Deep in Our Hearts
Andrew Manis
- Birmingham's Revolutionaries
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Jim Miles
- Weird Georgia
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John Poole
- Cracker Cavaliers
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Christian Warren
- Brush With Death
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SELF-HELP/HOW-TO
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POETRY |
-
Bob Alexander
-
Making It Happen
Bevelyn Blair
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Bevelyn Blair's Everyday Cakes
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Peter Bowerman
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The Well-Fed Writer
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Rex Bowlby
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Why Would I Want the Toy When I Can Have the Box?
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Michelle Casto
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Get Smart! About Modern Career Development
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Marshall P. & Sara B. Duke
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What Works With Children
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Cynthia Good
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Vaccinating Your Child
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Chris Hastings
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Southern Lawns
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Clark Howard & Mark Meltzer
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Get Clark Smart
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Homer Rice
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Lessons for Leaders
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Marilyn Segal & Carolyn Cohen
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Whose Illness Is It Anyway?
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Neca Stoller
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How to Write Haiki/Cinquain
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Johnnie Swanson
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Your Health is Your First Wealth
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- Georgianne Christian
Allen
- I Will Trust Him
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Barbara Sims Collier
- Snapshots of A Lifetime
Stephen Corey
- Greatest Hits
-
Gary Corseri
- Too Soon, As Always
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Charlie Holloway
- Ol' Saddles & Good Advice
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Anthony Kellman
- Wings of a Stranger
Florine Manson
- When My Heart Speaks
Neca Stoller
- Piedmont Stubble
M.J. Swaby
- Give God The Praises
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John White, Jr.
- Seeing In The Unseen
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Raóul White
- Honeysuckle Memories
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Lorenzo King Whitestone
- Intimate Thoughts
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Deborah A. Williams
- Journey of Love
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C. Denise Williams
- A Partaker of His Grace
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CHILDREN'S/YOUNG
ADULT LITERATURE
|
Evelyn Coleman
- Mystery of the Dark Tower
Carmen Agra Deedy
- The Yellow Star
Donna Grice
- You Decide, Volumes I, II, III
Brad Strickland
- When Mack Came Back
Velma Maia Thomas
- Freedom's Children
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Call for Papers
- The
Native American South: New Constellations (deadline: March 1, 2001)
Contests
- Southern
Playwrights Competition (deadline: February 15, 2001)
- O,
Georgia! and O' Georgia Too! Writing Competitions (deadline: March 15, 2001)
- Tennessee
Mountain Writers Writing Contest (deadline: March 11, 2001)
- Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (deadline: May 31, 2001)
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