Please join us on Thursday, April 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Monroeville Community House to honor three Alabamians who have distinguished themselves in Alabama arts and letters.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, recipient of the 2018 Harper Lee Award
Michelle Richmond, recipient of the 2018 Truman Capote Award
Dr. David Cowart, recipient of the 2018 Eugene Current-Garcia Award
The gala dinner ticket can be purchased as a stand-alone event, as well as with the conference package. Tables of 8 are offered at a discounted rate. Please contact Coastal Alabama Community College for details about conference or gala tickets (251) 575-8207.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, APRIL 19
Monroe County Museum – Monroeville Community House
- 10:00 am – Wayne Flynt
Mockingbird Songs
- 11:00 am – Craigger Browne
Marble Sculptor
- 1:30 pm – Jennifer Horne
An Interview with the Poet Laureate
- 2:30 pm – Honorée Jeffers
2018 Harper Lee Award Winner
- 3:30 pm – Michelle Richmond
2018 Truman Capote Award Winner
- 4:30 pm – Bicentennial Poets
Kwoya Maples and Susie Paul
- 6:30 pm – Reception
- 7:00 pm – Awards Gala Dinner
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
Coastal Alabama Community College Library—Monroeville Community House
- 9:30 am – Deborah Plant
Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon
- 10:30 am – Patti Callahan Henry
The Bookshop at Water’s End
- 12:00 pm – Luncheon with Sean Dietrich
“Sean of the South”
- 2:00 pm – Emily Blejwas
Once You Know This
- 2:00 pm – Derryn Moten
Crusader Without Violence
- 3:00 pm – Publisher’s Panel
Angela Broyles, Bluewater Publications Keith Badowski, Brick Road Poetry Press Mary Adams Belk, Solomon & George
- 3:00 pm – Alina Stefanescu
Every Mask I Tried On
- 4:00 pm – Sue Brannan Walker
Let Us Imagine Her Name
Contact Information
Alabama Writers’ Forum, Inc.
P.O. Box 4777
Montgomery, AL 36103-4777
334.265.7728
www.writersforum.org
