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Book News
2003 SEBA Book Award Winners
Announced
Book Award winners are in bold
followed by the other finalists.
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Fiction |
Non Fiction |
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue
Monk Kidd
- The Half-Mammals of Dixie by
George Singleton
- Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson
- The Last Girls by Lee Smith
- Little Friend by Donna Tartt
- A Parchment of Leaves: A Novel by
Silas House
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- My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
- Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and
Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon
- My Father's People by Louis Rubin
- No Heroes by Chris Offut
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Children |
Poetry |
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- Epossumondus written by
Colleen Salley, illustrated by Janet Stevens
- This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
- Turtle Saver by Laurie Parker
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- Catching Light by Kathryn
Stripling Byer
- Bellocq's Ophelia by
Natasha Tethewey
- Ecstasy of Regret by Dannye
Romine Powell
- Quartet for Three Voices by James
Applewhite
- Song and Dance by Alan Shapiro
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Cookbook |
- Foster's Market by Sara Foster
- I'm Just Here for the Food: Food +
Heat = Cooking by Alton Brown
- Lady and Sons Just Desserts by
Paula Deen
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The Southeast Booksellers Association Book Award Dinner will take place
April 4, 2003 at the Park Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. For ticket
information, visit the SEBA web site.
Southern Fellowship of Writers
to Induct Eight
 The
theme for the 12th Biennial Conference on
Southern Literature is
"Southern Legends: From Eudora to Elvis". The event will be held in
Chattanooga, Tennessee April 24-26, 2003. This year's conference will present
the world premiere staged readings of two one-act plays by Tennessee Williams -
"The Palooka" and "Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily?"
The Convocation of the Fellowship of Southern
Writers program will be "Remembering Eudora Welty" featuring Ellen Douglas,
Louis Rubin and Elizabeth Spencer.
To be inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers:
Madison Smartt Bell
Kaye Gibbons
Barry Hannah
Yusef Komunyakaa |
Jill McCorkle
John Shelton Reed
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Allen Wier |
Delta Burke to Star in
WB's Sweet Potato Queens
Delta Burke has signed to play the
lead role in the half-hour WB pilot "Sweet Potato Queens." The project is
a multi-generational comedy from writer-exec producer Pamela Eells ("Mad About
You") in association with Warner Bros. TV.
The character Burke will portray
is based on real-life Southern Belle and author Jill Conner Browne, the original
"Sweet Potato Queen." The Jackson, Mississippi native has written three
humorous guides for spirited Belles over the age of 40 (though those young
Tammys can learn something, too). Browne's latest book is The Sweet
Potato Queen's Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner).
Delta Burke, known for her role as
Suzanne Sugarbaker on CBS's "Designing Women," had a recurring role of Cherry
Cherry on WB's "Popular," a part written specifically for Delta, Cherry was a
former Miss Texas 1974.
Call for Papers
Southern Writers Symposium
(Deadline: March 15, 2003)
"The Problem of Displacement in Flannery O’Connor’s Works and Life”
(Deadline: March 28, 2003
Southern Literary
Journal
(Deadline: August
1, 2003)
Contests
Appalachian
Writers Association Contests (Deadline: June 1, 2003)
EAA
"Countdown to Kitty Hawk' Writing Contest (deadline: June 4, 2003)
Fred Bonnie
First Novel Contest 2003 (Deadline: June 15, 2003)
Tennessee Writers Alliance
Contests (Deadline: July 1, 2003)
News from
Past Issues
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2002:
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2001:
12
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06 05
04 03
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2000: 12
11 10
09 08
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