Fall 2006

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In This issue:

2

The Art of Storytelling
Filmmakers Gather in Florence
Jeanie Thompson

4

Making Magic
From Script to Screen
John Anderson

5

Writing With Both Hands
A Conversation With Charles Gaines
Jeanie Thompson

8

Violata Pax
An Artist Journeys Into His Very Human Past
Jeanie Thompson

10

Rowan Oak and the Art of Deception
Michael Knight

12

Young Writers Draw Applause
2006 High School Literary Arts Awards and Scholarship Competition

14

Writing Mobile Bay
Arts Relief Project Launches Community Writing on the Gulf Coast
Jeanie Thompson

16

Private Thoughts on a Public Person
An Interview With Sena Jeter Naslund
Pam Kingsbury

18

The Sacred and the Profane
Voices of the Urban Experience
Edward Reynolds

23

How It Started
Daniel Wallace

Departments

24

Reviews

20

Thank You

40

Literary News

43

Executive Director's Journal