Children: How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long, Harcourt
Cookbook: The Gift of Southern Cooking, Scott Peacock & Edna Lewis, Knopf
This year’s SEBA Book Awards
Dinner will take place at The Park Hotel in Charlotte, NC. Tickets for the
dinner are $40 and limited. The SEBA Book Awards are sponsored by Baker &
Taylor. Baker & Taylor and the Southeast Booksellers Association will play host
to numerous booksellers and other industry friends from around the southeast.
The SEBA Book Award Dinner on June 26th, 2004, at The Park Hotel in Charlotte,
NC will be an evening to remember and one that reminds us why we do what we do –
love books! Tickets are $40 for the dinner that starts at 7:00 PM. For ticket
information contact the Southeast Booksellers Association at 803-779-0118 or
visit the website at www.sebaweb.org.
Oxford American....It's Back!
The second
incarnation of Oxford American
ended July 17, 2003. And like the Phoenix, the southern literary magazine is
rising from the ashes. The University of Central Arkansas and Oxford American
have formed a partnership. Offices for the now not-for-profit publication
will move to the campus in Conway, Arkansas. The university said it signed a
three-year, $490,000 contract with Oxford American founder Marc Smirnoff on May
17th. The revived magazine will become a quarterly format with the next issue
coming out in November.
The 2004 Salem College
Center for Women Writers National Literary Award Winners
The
Salem College Center for Women Writers
has announced the winners of the 2004 National Literary Awards. Jennifer S.
Davis of New Orleans, Louisiana won the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award with
her story, “Blue Moon.” Ann Fisher-Wirth’s poem, “Rain” won the Rita Dove
Poetry Award. The Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award was won by Catherine
Rainwater for her essay, “My Father’s Clothes.” All winners will receive $1000
plus an all expense paid trip to Salem College to read their work on November
11, 2004.
Georgia Author of the Year
Awards
The
40th
Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards were presented June 14th at Georgia
Tech. The Georgia Writers Association
award program honors books published in 2003.
The Lifetime
Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Bettie M. Sellers - noteworthy
author, poet and literary advocate. Bettie
Sellers, a native of Griffin, Georgia, taught in the English Department of Young
Harris College from 1965 to 1996. Sellers was named Georgia Author of the Year
in 1979 by the Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists. She was named Poet of
the Year in 1992 by American Pen Women. In 1997 she was named poet laureate of
Georgia by Governor Miller.
Nominee's
for the 40th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards include:
Essay Division
Amy
Blackmarr - Above the Fall Line
(award winner) Zell Miller - A National Party No More Carey Sipp - The Turn Around Mom
Michael
Thurmond - Freedom
Biography Division
Valerie
Boyd - Wrapped in Rainbows (award winner)
Virginia Spencer
Carr - The Lonely Hunter
Mike
Cheatham - No Man Walks Alone
Richard
Hyatt - Charles H. Jones, A Biography
Memoir Division
Melissa
Walker - Living on Wilderness Time (award winner)
Pola
Arbiser - Give Me the Children Eric L.
Haney - Inside Delta Force Irene A.
Harner - Movin' On Richard
Taylor - Prodigals: A Vietnam Story
History Division
Evelyn Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee -
And if I Perish (award winner) Andy
Ambrose - Atlanta: An Illustrated History Roy
Blount, Jr. - Robert E. Lee Tim Darnell - The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball Gregory Paul Domin - Jimmy Carter, Public Opinion and the Search for
Values Tammy Harden Galloway - Dear Old Roswell Deric A.
Gilliard - Living in the Shadows of a Legend Melissa Fay Greene - Last Man Out
Calvin C.
Johnson, Jr. - Exit to Freedom Jedwin Smith - Fatal Treasure
Nat
Turner, (Ed.) - A Southern Soldier's Letters Home
Self-Help Division
Edna
Lewis & Scott Peacock - Southern Cooking (award winner) Greg
Baer, M.D. - Real Love Josh
Batchelder - Handwriting Reveals You Gail
Evans - She Wins, You Win Leidra Lawson - Sugar Daddy 101
Marsha
Marks - 101 Simple Lessons for Life Loran & Myrna Smith - Let the Big Dawg Eat
Robert
Wayne - Venice in Context
Inspirational Division
Barbara
Allen - Still Christian After All These Years (award winner)
Jarrett
Burch - Adiel Sherwood
Phyllis
Carrera - A Journey of My Choosing
Augustine S.
Chea - Inspirational Daily Meditation
David
Fillingim - Redneck Liberation
Bryan
Hamill - Shocking Bible Prophecy
Marsha
Maurer - A Fragrant Fullness Cecil Murphey - The Relentless God
Poetry
Stephen
Corey - There Is No Finished World
Robert
Giannetti - Drawn by the Creek
Collin
Kelley - Better to Travel: Selected Poems
Tania
Rochelle - Karaoke Funeral
Dianna S. Wilson - Reflections From the Heart
Cecilia
Woloch - Late
Fiction
Terry
Kay - Valley of Light (award winner) Mary Kay Andrews - Little Bitty Lies
Pearl
Cleage - Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do Virginia Ellis - The Photograph Eckhard
Gerdes - Cistern Tawdry Greg
Keyes - The Briar King Virginia Lanier - A Bloodhound to Die For
Rick
Magers - Blue Water Adventure Milam McGraw
Propst - Ociee: on Her Own Janisse Ray - Wild Card Quilt
Randy
Singer - Irreparable Harm Joseph
Skibell - The English Disease Karen
Slaughter - A Faint Cold Fear Haywood Smith - The Red Hat Club
Emily Blake Vail - Dark Night on Mimosa Trail
Anthologies/Short Stories
Dr. Hugh
Ruppersburg (Ed.) - After O'Connor (award winner) Michael
Bishop - Brighten to Incandescence Herbert W. Denmark - Second Finger ... Left Hand
Herbert Denmark (Ed.) - The Night the Animals Screamed Randy J.
Hendricks - The Twelfth Year and Other Times
First Novel
Jack
Riggs - When the Finch Rises (award winner) Steve
Berry - The Amber Room Steven M. Best - When Philosophers Were Kings
Jimmy
Carter - The Hornet's Nest Irvon E. Clear - The Game: Part 1
M. Kay
duPont - Loving Mr. Lincoln Mitchell Graham - The Fifth Ring
Nancy M. Hyde - The Hollow Hannah
Khoury - So Pretty an African H.F.
Lazenby - A Death in Heaven June
McNaughton - Alligator Creek Carolyn Robbins - Carribbean Green
Fran
Stewart - Orange as Marmalade Adam
Sun - The Mountain Man Margaret B. Anderson
Uhler - The Floridians
Children's and Young Adult Literature David Bryant &
George Davidson - Georgia's Amazing Coast (award winner)
Marshall Dell - The Enchanted Okefenokee
Carly
Heyman - My eXtra Special Brother
Melanie D. Jones - Pigs Rock!
Diane Z. Shore - Bus-A-Saurus Bop
Steven
Tiller - Rudolf the Red Nose
