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"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

 

-Anne Michaels

Past Festival Authors

2011

Alex Beard, Monkey See, Monkey Draw (children's)
Daniel Black, Perfect Peace (fiction) - www.danielblack.org
Melissa  Blackburn, Cameo (poetry) - www.newplainspress.com/New_Featured_Authors.html 
Jane  Bradley, You Believers (fiction) - www.janebradley.net
Rick  Bragg, The Most They Ever Had (memoir)
Jim Buford, The House Across the Road (fiction)
Natalie  Chanin, Alabama Stitch Book (nonfiction) - alabamachanin.com
Mark  Childress, Georgia Bottoms (fiction) - www.crazyinalabama.com
William  Cobb, The Last Queen of the Gypsies (fiction)
Hunter  Cole, The Legs Murder Scandal (nonfiction)
Tony  Crunk, New Covenant Bound (poetry) - www.tonycrunk.com
Miles DeMott, Family Meeting (fiction) - http://familymeetingnovel.com/Home.html 
Penn Dilworth, book appraiser
Ted  Dunagan, Secret of the Satilfa (young  adult fiction) - www.teddunagan.com
Ron  Ellis, In That Sweet Country: Uncollected  Writings of Harry Middleton (essays) - www.ron-ellis.com
Dan  Farmer, Black Crow (singer/songwriter) - www.danfarmersongs.com
Linda Fisher, Runaway Will (young adult) - http://rfwp.com/7208.htm
Richard  Goodman, A New York Memoir (memoir) - www.richardgoodman.org
Wayne  Greenhaw, Fighting the Devil in Dixie (nonfiction) - www.waynegreenhaw.com
David  Haynes, Motorcycling Alabama: Fifty Ride  Loops Through the Heart of Dixie (nonfiction)
Roy  Hoffman, Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and  Conversations (essays)
Richard Horan, Seeds (non fiction) - http://literaryseeds.typepad.com/
Randall  Horton, The Definition of Place (poetry) - www.randallhorton.com
Richie  Jean Jackson, The House by the Side of the Road: The Selma Civil Rights Movement (memoir)
Les Johnson, Back to the Moon (science fiction) - www.lesjohnsonauthor.com
Christy  Jordan, Southern Plate: Classic Comfort  Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family (cookbook) 
Eric  Litwin, Pete the Cat (children’s) -  www.ericlitwin.com 
Michael  Knight, The Typist (fiction) - www.michaelknightfiction.com
P.T. Paul, To Live and Write in Dixie (poetry) negativecapabilitypress.squarespace.com
Roger  Reid, Time (young adult fiction) - rogerreidbooks.com
Art Roche, Art for Kids: Cartooning (children's)
Sonia  Sanchez, Morning Haiku (poetry) - soniasanchez.net
Janet  Simpson, We Are Not Lovers (with  Delicate Cutters) (musician)
Marc  Smirnoff, The Oxford American Book of  Great Music Writing (nonfiction)
Erica  Spindler, Blood Vines (fiction) - www.ericaspindler.com
Patricia Sprinkle, Friday's Daughter (fiction)
Chandra  Sparks Taylor, The Promise (young  adult fiction) - chandrasparkstaylor.com
Keith  Thomson, Twice a Spy (fiction) - keiththomsonbooks.com
E. E. Wade, eyestodewhurld (poetry) -     eewadethewriter.com
Dean Faulkner Wells, Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of  the Faulkners of Mississippi (nonfiction)
Jake  Adam York, Persons Unknown (poetry) - www.jakeadamyork.com

 

2010

Ace Atkins

Elise Blackwell

Rick Bragg

Pearl Cleage

Kirk Curnutt

DeLana R. A. Dameron

Sharon L. Davis

Foster Dickson

Frye Gaillard

A. M. Garner

Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna

Virginia Gilbert

Susan Gregg Gilmore

Robert Gray

Carolyn Haines

Wade Hall

Martha Hawkins

Rachel Hawkins

Patti Callahan Henry

Robert Hicks

Sean Hill

Ron Hogan

Suzanne Hudson

Jennifer Horne

Rheta Grimsley Johnson

Mary Kaiser

Irene Lathan

Hank Lazer

Eric Litwin and James Dean

Charlie Lucas

David Magee

Mindy Merrell and R. B. Quinn

Mary Carol Moran

Mary Ann Neely

Don Noble

James L. Noles Sr.

Kathy L. Patrick

Wendy Reed

Ginger Rue

Pat Boyd Rumore

Julie Schoerke

Karin Slaughter

Kathleen Thompson

Melinda Rainey Thompson

Sue Brannan Walker

Daniel Wallace

Karen Spears Zacharias

Carol Prejean Zippert