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| Feb-April 2010 The Big Reads: Alabama Reads - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Various Alabama Communities Join the entire state of Alabama in reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as part of Alabama's first Statewide NEA Big Read. Check with your local library for events in your area or see Web site for more information.
Various Communities, Alabama Contact: Pat Ryan 205-226-3615 pryan@bham.lib.al.us http://www.alabamareads.org | | | MAR 13, 9 am-4 pm Show Me the Money! Conference St. Luke's Episcopal School This conference will help you find and get the money you need for your writing career and explain how to get the most promotional exposure. Speakers include C. Hope Clark, Nancy Swan, & Dr. Sharee Broussard. Deadline for registration is March 7. Conference fee: $35. See Web site for more information.
3975 Japonica Lane Mobile, AL 36693 Contact: Cece Redmond 251-644-5900 mobilewritersguild@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/mobilewritersguild | | | Mar 13, 10 am Rheta Grimsley Johnson book signing Cold Water Books Award-winning columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson will sign copies of her new memoir Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming. See Web site for more information.
101 West 6th Street Tuscumbia, AL 35674 Contact: Sandi Hendrix 256-381-2525 sandihendrix@yahoo.com http://www.coldwaterbooks.com/ | | | Mar 14, 2 pm Hugh Ambrose book event Centennial Hall at Faulkner State's Fairhope campus Hugh Ambrose will appear for his book The Pacific, companion book to the HBO series. Free tickets available at Page & Palette. Please see Web site for more information.
School Street Fairhope, AL 36532 Contact: Emily Bell 251-928-5295 emily@pageandpalette.com http://www.pageandpalette.com | | | MARCH 15, 7 PM; MARCH 16, 10 AM UNA WRITER'S SERIES: LORRAINE LOPEZ; JIM MURPHY; MICHAEL KNIGHT University of North Alabama Lorraine Lopez will read from her fiction on Monday evening, March 15 at 7 pm in the Performance Center of the GUC at UNA. Jim Murphy will read from his poetry on Tuesday, March 16, at 10 am in Banquet Hall A (in the GUC). Michael Knight will read from his fiction at 11 am, March 16 in Banquet Hall A. Booksignings will follow each event. The readings are free and open to the public. See Web site for more information.
Guillot University Center Florence, AL 35630 Contact: Pam Kingsbury 256-765-4890 pjkingsbury@una.edu http://www.una.edu/english/writers-series.html | | | Mar 16, 7 pm Dr. Alan Gribben presents Ten Good Reasons to Read Tom Sawyer Wetumpka Public Library Dr. Alan Gribben, author of the foreword to the Alabama Big Read edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, will discuss the top Ten Reasons to Read Tom Sawyer. See Web site for more information.
212 S. Main Street Wetumpka, AL 36092 Contact: Susan Hayes, Director 334-567-1308 wetumlib@bellsouth.net http://www.wetumpkalibrary.com | | | Mar 17, noon Ruth Cook: At Quary's Edge: Working the World Class Marble B. B. Comer Library Ruth Cook, author of A Brief History of Sylacauga Marble, will tell the story of the daily life and the quarry work at the Sylacauga marble quarries. See Web site for more information.
314 North Broadway Avenue Sylacauga, AL 35150 Contact: Shirley K. Spears 256-249-0961 sspears@sylacauga.net http://www.sylacauga.net/library | | | Mar 18, 6:30 pm Alan Gribben: Ten Reasons to Read Tom Sawyer Eufaula Carnegie Library Dr. Alan Gribben, author of the foreword to the Alabama Big Read edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, will discuss the top Ten Reasons to Read Tom Sawyer. See Web site for more information.
217 North Eufaula Avenue Eufaula , AL 36027 Contact: Ronnie Smith 334-687-2337 johntidwell@chamberscountylibrary.org http://www.ecl.lib.al.us/ | | | Mar 19-21, 2010 Books by the Bay Multicultural Literary Conference Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center The Multicultural Literature Advocacy Group (MLAG) is proud to present the 2010 Annual Books By the Bay Multicultural Literary Conference. The purpose of the conference is to improve the accessibility and acceptability of books written by and about people of color. See Web site for more information.
One South Water Street Mobile, AL Contact: Dyahnne Alston 240-687-0359 mlitadgroup@gmail.com http://mlag.web.officelive.com/2010conference.aspx | | | Mar 20, 7:30 pm A Celebration of Mary Ward Brown Judson College Alumnae Auditorium Sponsored by Marion Military Institute and Judson College, this celebration of Mary Ward Brown includes a concert of music composed by Marion native Hal Kemp and ASHES OF ROSES, a play by Norman McMillan based on stories of Mary Ward Brown, with Deborra Street directing. Tickets are $15 and may be reserved through Merrily Thompson at the phone number or e-address below.
302 Bibb Street Marion, AL 36756 Contact: Merrily Thompson 334-683-2394 mthompson@marionmilitary.edu http://www.judson.edu/ | | | March 20, 2010, 10 am-3 pm Alabama Bound Birmingham Public Library This year, Alabama Bound will be part of The Big Read focusing on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Come see and hear Mark Twain, hear period music while feasting on Southern cooking, hear Dolores Hydock tell stories, and discuss the book with a panel of experts from different perspectives. Free and open to the public. See Web site for more information.
2100 Park Place Birmingham, AL 35203 Contact: Linda Wilson/Haruyo Miyagawa 205-226-3600 lwilson@bham.lib.al.us http://www.alabamabound.org | | | Mar 24, noon Ruth Cook: More on Moretti and the Marble: Love of Art and Dreams of Business B. B. Comer Library Ruth Cook will talk about Moretti's life and his recognized works of art as well as his investments in Sylacauga and Talladega County's pure white marble. See Web site for more information.
314 N. Broadway Avenue Sylacauga, AL 35150 Contact: Shirley K. Spears 256-249-0961 sspears@sylacauga.net http://www.sylacauga.net/library | | | March 24, 2010, 4 pm Annual Mersmann Awards UAB Spencer Honors House The Mersmann Awards are given annually for the best reading or rendition by a student of a poem written by another author and a best original poem. Traditionally, this event has been an opportunity for students to read aloud from their favorite works and give voice to words they may often read though seldom hear. Free. See Web site for more information.
1190 10th Avenue South Birmingham , AL 35294 Contact: Daniel Anderson 205-934-4250 danderso@uab.edu http://www.uab.edu/english/events/ | | | Mar 25, 3 pm Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton book event RBD Library, Special Collections & Archives Department Virginia Hamilton will discuss her memoir Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry between the Great Wars. See Web site for more information.
231 Mell Street Auburn, AL 36849 Contact: Joyce Hicks 334-844-1732 askalibrarian@auburn.edu http://www.lib.auburn.edu/sca/ | | | Mar 25, 12:30 pm Dead Cats and Spunk Water: Superstitions and Strange Logic in the Writing of Mark Twain Savantes Literary Society Dolores Hydock speaks to the topic. See Web site for more information.
Vestavia Hills, AL Contact: Betty R. Watts 205-746-5136 http://ahf.net/ | | | Mar 26, 8:30 am-4 pm Wright Brothers Centennial Panel Discussion Alabama Department of Archives and History $35 registration fee. Julie Williams, author of Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, will join other scholars to discuss the significance of the nation's first civilian flight school, located in Montgomery. See Web site for time and more information.
624 Washington Ave. Montgomery, AL 36130 Contact: William Trimble 334-844-6636 trimbwf@auburn.edu http://www.archives.alabama.gov | | | March 27, noon-1 pm Theatre in the Mind: Bert Williams' experience in Vaudeville Alabama Shakespeare Festival Georgette Norman speaks to the topic. See Web site for more information.
Montgomery, AL Contact: Alabama Shakespeare Festival 334-271-5395 http://www.asf.net/index.aspx | | | March 28, 2 pm Simon and Pap and Huck and Tom: Alabama Influences on the Fiction of Mark Twain Westover Public Library Richard Anderson speaks to the topic. See Web site for more information.
Westover, AL Contact: Annette Tyler 205-678-3375 http://ahf.net/ | | | Mar 29, 6-8 pm River Jordan & Shellie Tomlinson Page & Palette Two writers unite for a special appearance: River Jordan for Saints in Limbo and Shellie Tomlinson for Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On! On their Southern Wing & A Prayer Tour. See Web site for more details.
32 S. Section Str. Fairhope, AL 36532 Contact: Emily Bell 251-928-5295 emily@pageandpalette.com http://www.pageandpalette.com | | | Mar 30, 6 pm Please Pass the Folklore: Family and Community Traditions in the Kitchen and Around the Dinner Table Calera Public Library Joyce Cauthen speaks to the topic. See Web site for more information.
9700 Highway 25 Calera, AL 35040 Contact: Kim Emrick 205-669-3894 http://www.cityofcalera.org/Default.asp?ID=107 | | | Mar 30, 9:30-11:30 am E.O. Wilson: Consilience Twelve Years Later Morgan Hall This event will focus on E.O. Wilson's 1998 book, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, which generated much debate in academic circles when it was published because of its argument to bring together the sciences, humanities, and the arts into a broad study of human knowledge. The colloquium will examine the progress of that debate over the last decade. Free and open to the public. See Web site for more information.
University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Contact: Rebecca Florence 205-348-8663 rflorenc@as.ua.edu http://web.as.ua.edu/home/news/2010/mailnews/march/webmail.php | | | Mar 31, noon Brown Bag Lunch: Julie Williams Central Library, Arrington Auditorium Professor Julie Williams will discuss her new book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910. See Web site for more information.
2100 Park Place Birmingham, AL 35203 Contact: Sandi Lee 205-226-3742 slee@bham.lib.al.us http://www.bplonline.org | | | Apr 7, noon Adelante Book Group: Discovering the Secrets of Success Sarah Palmer Commons; Comer 202 Evelyn Blake and Mary Lou Williams will discuss The Outliers, the Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell and Julie and Julia by Julie Powell. E-mail for more information.
University of Montevallo Campus Montevallo, AL 35115 Contact: Sandra Lott 205-665-2127 jlott285@charter.net
| | | Apr 10, 2-4 pm Local Authors Day Gadsden Public Library Current or former residents of Etowah County who have authored a book are invited to participate. Authors will have books for sale and availble for signing. This event is open and free to the public. See Web site for more information.
254 College Street Gadsden, AL 35901 Contact: Julie Dobbins 256-549-4699 ext. 100 gploffice@gadsdenlibrary.org http://www.gadsdenlibrary.org | | | April 10, 5:30-7 pm CANEBRAKE POETS CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY MONTH The Blind Mule Restaurant & Bar Reading by Mobile poets Carol Case; Keri Coumanis; Diane Garden; Vernon Fowlkes, Jr; Celia Lewis; and Alabama Poet Laureate Sue Walker. Cash bar opens at 5 pm; readings begin at 5:30. LoDa District, Downtown Mobile, Free. See Web site for more information.
57 N Claiborne Street Mobile, AL 36602 Contact: Celia Lewis 251-423-7927 celiavickerylewis@comcast.net http://www.canebrakepoets.org/ | | | April 11, 3-5 pm Sunday Salon: Sena Jeter Naslund Huntsville Literary Association Huntsville Literary Association members and their guests are invited. For guest reservations phone 256-585-9520. See Web site for more information.
4813 Cove Creek Dr. Huntsville, AL 35805 Contact: Mary Beth Walker 256-585-9520 walker_mb@bellsouth.net http://hla-hsv.org/index.html | | | Apr 13, 7:30 pm Mary Ann Neeley book event Smith Hall, Huntingdon College Historian Mary Ann Neeley will talk about and sign copies of her new book The Writings of M. P. Blue, Montgomery's First Historian. See Web site for more information.
1500 East Fairview Ave. Montgomery, AL 36106 Contact: J. Cameron West 334-833-4409 camwest@huntingdon.edu http://www.huntingdon.edu | | | Apr 14, 2010, 4 pm UAB Writers' Series: Robert Collins and Lawrence Wharton UAB Spencer Honors House Robert (Bob) Collins and Lawrence (Larry) Wharton. Join the UAB community as it celebrates and hears the poetry of Collins and the fiction of Wharton, two retiring friends who have meant so much to creative writing at UAB over the years. Reception to follow. Free. See Web site for more information.
1190 10th Avenue South Birmingham , AL 35294 Contact: Daniel Anderson 205-934-4250 danderso@uab.edu http://www.uab.edu/english/events/ | | | April 15, 7:30 pm Music from Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund UA-Huntsville, Roberts Recital Hall Music composed for and readings from Ahab's Wife by its author, Eminent Scholar in the Humanities Sena Jeter Naslund. Music and lyrics composed by Frank Richmond; music performed by UA-Huntsville instructor Karen Young and a UA-Huntsville students. Free admission. See Web site for more information.
301 Sparkman Drive Huntsville, AL 35899 Contact: UAH English Dept. 256-834-6655 eh@uah.edu http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/english/naslund_schedule.php | | | Apr 17, 2010, 10 am-4 pm Alabama Book Festival Old Alabama Town The Alabama Book Festival is returning to Montgomery on Saturday, April 17. The event features over 50, varied poets, fiction and nonfiction writers, and children and young adult authors assembled in Old Alabama Town. The event is free and open to the public, and fun for readers of all ages. See Web site for frequent updates.
301 Columbus Street Montgomery, AL 36104 Contact: Bob McLain 334-240-4500 or 1-888-240-1850 b.mclain@oldalabamatown.com http://www.alabamabookfestival.org/ | | | Apr 20, 6:30 pm Rheta Grimsley Johnson book event Mobile Public Library Grimsley Johnson will discuss and sign copies of her new memoir Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming. See Web site for more information.
5555 Grelot Rd. Mobile, AL 36609 Contact: Nancy Anlage 251-208-7097 nanlage@aol.com http://www.mplonline.org/ | | | April 23, 2010 Montevallo Literary Festival University of Montevallo The 8th annual Montevallo Literary Festival will take place at the scenic and historic University of Montevallo, Alabama's only public liberal arts university. See Web site for frequent updates.
Comer Hall Montevallo, AL 35115 Contact: Jim Murphy 205-665-6420 murphyj@montevallo.edu http://www.montevallo.edu/english/MLF/ | | | April 23-24, 2010 Slash Pine Poetry Festival Varied Locations Slash Pine Press' second annual two-day poetry bonanza. Last year's inaugural festival was held in five distinct locations around the Tuscaloosa area and had more than forty readers and a total crowd of more than 350. The festival emphasizes the democratic and diverse goals of creative work, refusing to privilege one aesthetic or reputation over another. See Web site for frequent updates.
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Contact: Joseph P. Wood 205-348-1763 jwood@bama.ua.edu http://www.slashpinepress.blogspot.com | | | Apr 29-May 1, 2010 Alabama Writers Symposium Alabama Southern Community College The Alabama Center for Literary Arts presents Literature on Location: The Muse of Place, the 2010 Alabama Writers Symposium. Readers, writers, scholars, and the recipient of the 2010 Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama's Distinguished Scholar of the Year. Check Web site for frequent updates.
2800 Alabama Avenue Monroeville, AL Contact: Melinda Byrd-Murphy 251-575-8226 mbmurphy@ascc.edu http://www.writerssymposium.org | | | May 6 Rheta Grimsley Johnson Reception and Book Signing Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Rheta Grimsley Johnson will sign copies of her new memoir Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming. See Web site for more information.
350 North Wood Avenue Florence, AL 35630 Contact: Nancy Sanford 256-764-6564 nsanford@flpl.lib.al.us http://flpl.lib.al.us/ | | | May 19, noon Wild and Wonderful Wednesday: Julie Williams Pell City Public Library Journalism professor Julie Williams will talk about and sign copies of her new book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, AL. See Web site for more information.
1923 First Avenue North Pell City , AL 35125 Contact: Susan Mann 205-884-1015 smannpcl@yahoo.com http://www.pc.lib.al.us/ | | | May 25, 7 pm Julie Williams book signing Wetumpka Public Library Journalism professor Julie Williams will talk about and sign copies of her new book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information.
212 South Main Street Wetumpka, AL 36092 Contact: Susan Hayes 334-567-1308 wetumlib@bellsouth.net http://www.wetumpkalibrary.com | | | Oct 20, noon Julie Williams book signing B. B. Comer Memorial Library Journalism professor Julie Williams will talk about and sign copies of her new book Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama. See Web site for more information.
314 North Broadway Avenue Sylacauga, AL 35150 Contact: Shirley Spears 256-249-0961 sspears@sylacauga.net http://www.sylacauga.net/library/ | | |
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