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Book News
World Premiere of The
Adventures of Ociee Nash
The world premiere of The
Adventures of Ociee Nash opened the
Coke Film Series at the Fox
Theatre in Atlanta on June 1, 2003. Written and produced by Atlanta
sisters Amy McGary and Kristen McGray, the film is based on the novel A
Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street by Atlanta author Milam McGraw Propst.
The cast includes Keith Carradine, Mare Winningham, Skyler Day as "Ociee Nash."
Trading Spaces Ty Pennington makes a special appearance as the Wright brother
"Wilbur." The production was filmed in Orchard Hill, Georgia, Atlanta's
Inman Park and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The Adventures of Ociee
Nash tells the story of nine year old Ociee Nash in the year 1898 who is
sent from her father and brothers in rural Mississippi to live with her refined
aunt in Asheville, North Carolina.
Ociee's story continues in
Ociee on Her Own, a new novel by Milam McGraw Propst.
Valerie Martin is Awarded
the Orange Prize for Fiction by Women
Valerie Martin's Property,
a novel about a plantation owner's wife in the American South, was selected for
London's Orange Prize for Fiction by Women. The award carries a cash prize of
$49,000.
Martin is a native of New Orleans, and now
lives in upstate New York.
Lillie D. Chaffin Literary
Award Presented to Silas House
What a month
Silas House is
having! In a recent
poll, readers of Kentucky Monthly magazine voted House Kentucky's
Favorite Writer.
Silas House was presented
the Lillie D. Chaffin Literary Award on June 4, 2003 at the
Bluegrass 'n' More at Morehead
State University. The Chaffin award is in memory of the late Lillie D.
Chaffin, a Pikeville native and an associate poet laureate of Kentucky.
House's Clay's Quilt
has been selected as the Morehead State University "One Town, One Book" program.
The 2001 novel was House's literary debut and was a finalist in the ForeWord
Book of the year and the Southeastern Booksellers Association Book Award.
Silas House is a recipient of
the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Kentucky
Literary Award for Excellence in Fiction.
Theresa Williams selected
as a Paterson Fiction Prize Finalist
The Secret of Hurricanes by Theresa Williams has been named a finalist
for the Paterson Fiction Prize.
The Paterson Fiction Prize
is award annually by the Poetry Center at Passiac County Community College.
Theresa Williams has degrees in art and English from East Carolina
University and an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University in Ohio where
she currently teaches.
Georgia Authors of the
Year Awards
The 39th Annual Georgia
Author of the Year Awards was held Saturday, June 7, 2003 at The Robert Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech. Harriette M. Austin
received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Georgia Writers, Inc. sponsors the
awards which are given to books published in 2002.
The winners (in bold) and nominees are:
[Note: Only one award was presented in creative non-fiction, which grouped
essay, memoir, history, biography, self-help, and inspirational.]
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Fiction (Novel) |
Short Story Collections |
- Jim Grimsley - Boulevard
- Mary Andrews - Savannah Blues
Deeva Denez - The Bearer of the Sign
Paul Hemphill - Nobody’s Hero
Jana Oliver - The Summoning Stone
Karin Slaughter - Kisscut
Jeannie Sutton Hogue - Kudzu Murders
Augusta Trobaugh - Swan Place
Bill York - Fatal Ambition
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- Janet Walker McDaniel -
By Train at Night
- Kenneth R. Fussell - Chico's Monkey Farm; and
other Southern Tales
Cappy Hall Rearick - Simply Southern
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First Novel |
Children's Literature |
- John Williams - Lake Moon
- Valerie Clark - Tormented Without a Trace
Dani Dubre & Rod Mauck - The Pale Horse Cometh
Madeliene Farrell & Commodore Stone III - When I Wasn’t Looking
Cornell Graham - Prophet, Priest and King
Thomas Green - One Last Love
Kevin Hazzard - Sleeping Dogs
Sheri Joseph - Bear Me Safely Over
Jerry Moore - Weekend Warriors
Ernest Moss - Momma at the Crazy House
Maryanne Stahl - Forgive the Moon
Natasha Usher - Fairy Tale Wedding
Jane Walker - Widow of Sighing Pines
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- Steve Tiller - Boat & Wind, Rainbow’s Landing, and Born to Fly
(three books)
- Ginette B. Altema - Children of the Future Numbers Book
Brad Strickland & Thomas E. Fuller - Pirate Hunter: Mutiny!
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Poetry |
Essay |
- Sandra Meek - Nomadic Foundations
- R. Cary Bynum - The Chinaberry Tree &
Other Poems
Kevin Cantwell - Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye
Agnes M. Cowan - The Poet’s Eye
R.J. McCaffery - The Hymnal Week
Lee Passarella - Swallowed Up In Victory
Bill York - Reflections of the Great Spirit
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R. Harold Brown - The Greening of Georgia:
The Improvement of The Environment in the Twentieth Century
Sybil Fletcher Lash - Supreme Deception
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Biography |
Memoir |
- Deborah Scroggins - Emma’s War
- C.L. Bragg - Distinction in Every Service
R. Alan Culpepper - Eternity as a Sunrise: The Life of Hugo H. Culpepper
Kathryn W. Kemp - God’s Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola
Jaclyn Weldon White - A Very Special Gift: The Story of the Legacy of Emily
Fisher Crum and Remer Hamilton Crum
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Bill Boyd - Stepdaddy: a Creative Memoir
Shirley Garrett - A Tap Water Girl in a Bottled Water World
Laurie Scott-Reyes - When Ravens Dare to Sing
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History |
Self-Help |
Bruce Feiler - Abraham
Gregory A. Freeman - Sailors To The End
Tammy Harden Galloway - The Inman Family: An Atlanta Family from
Reconstruction to World War I
Kent Hannon and Sonny Seiler - Damn Good Dogs
John E. Lancaster - Judge Harley and His Boys: The Langdale Story
Andrew M. Manis - Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Civil Rights and
the Culture Wars
Sara Hines Martin - More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Georgia Women
Carole Merritt - The Herndons
Ronald H. Moseley - The Stillwell Letters: A Georgian in Longstreet’s
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Robert A. Pratt - We Shall Not Be Moved
Charles Seabrook - Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses
Love Henry Whelchel - Hell Without Fire: Conversion in Slave Religion |
Rene Godefroy - No Condition Is Permanent
Amy K. Hutchens - Brain Brilliant
Dr. Scott Isaacs - Hormonal Balance: Understanding Hormones, Weight and
Your Metabolism
Sharon Simpson Joseph - And How My Spirit Soars: Learning to Pack for an
Extraordinary Journey
Arline S. Kerman, J.D., Ph.D. - Should You Really Seek Custody of Your
Child?/New Georgia Edition
Dr. Marcia Riley - Moving to HOT-lanta: A Reality or An Illusion
David Ryback - Love Sex and Passion for the Rest of Your Life
Jessica Stockwell - Live and Travel Well
Jason Tesauro & Phineas Mollod - The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential
Manners, Savvy & Vice
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Inspirational |
Shirley N. Bryson - The Jericho Road
Andrew Silver - Combustible Burn (A Play) |
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ForeWord 2002 Book of the Year Awards Announced
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- The gold, silver and
bronze award winners of the 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards and
the Editor's Choice Prizes in fiction and nonfiction were announced Friday,
May 30th at a BEA program featuring guest speakers Jacqueline Deval and Lev
Raphael. The Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction was Six Kinds of Sky by
Luis Alberto Urrea (Cinco Puntos Press) and for nonfiction Villa Decor
by Betty Lou Phillips (Gibbs Smith Publishers).
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- Established in 1998,
ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards program has become one of the most
prestigious honors for independent presses and their authors.
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- ForeWord is the only
review trade journal devoted exclusively to covering independent
houses---ranging in size from university presses publishing hundreds of tiles
per year to micro, POD and eBook publishers who may publish one title in a
lifetime.
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- Awards going to Southern
authors included:
- Fiction Essay
(Bronze)
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It Wasn't All Dancing and Other Stories
- Mary Ward Brown
- University of
Alabama Press
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- Fiction General
(Gold)
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The Last Noel
- Michael Malone
- Sourcebooks
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- Fiction General
(Honorable Mention)
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The Last Girls
- Lee Smith
- Algonquin Books
- Fiction Historical
(Bronze)
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Speaks the Nightbird
- Robert McCammon
- River City
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- Fiction Literary
(Gold)
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One Foot in Eden
- Ron Rash
- Novello Festival
Press
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- Fiction Literary
(Bronze)
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Parchment of Leaves
- Silas House
- Algonquin Books
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- Fiction Romance
(Silver)
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Alice at Heart
- Deborah Smith
- BelleBooks
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- Nature (Silver)
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Discovering Alabama Wetlands
- Doug Phillips &
Robert P. Falls, Sr.
- University of
Alabama Press
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- Poetry (Gold)
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Landscape With Human Figure
- Rafael Campo
- Duke University
Press
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- Poetry (Silver)
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Rising Venus
- Poems
- Kelly Cherry
- Louisiana State
University Press
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- Sports & Recreation
(Silver)
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Fixin' to Git:One Fan's Love Affair with NASCAR's Winston Cup
- Jim Wright
- Duke University
Press
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Call for Papers
Flannery O'Connor
panel (Deadline: June 9, 2003)
Southern Women Writers Conference (Deadline: July 1, 2003)
Southern Literary
Journal
(Deadline: August
1, 2003)
Louisiana English
Journal, Fall 2003 Issue (Deadline: September 15, 2003)
Faulkner in the
World (Deadline: September 30, 2003)
Journal of Kentucky Studies
(Deadline: none)
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)
Southern Women Writers - Emerging Writers Contest (Deadline: July 1, 2003)
Lost States Writers
Conference Scholarship - Contest (Deadline: July 1, 2003)
News from
Past Issues
- 2003:
05
04
03
02
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2002:
11
10
09 08
07
06
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04
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02
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2001:
12
11
10
09
08
07
06 05
04 03
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2000: 12
11 10
09 08
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