Gather Up Our Voices:
Selected Writings from Recipients of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer 1998-2007

Gather Up Our Voices: Selected Writings from Recipients of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer 1998-2007 is available for purchase. The anthology features poems, stories, and nonfiction from the first ten winners of Alabama's most prestigious literary award. The 130-page large format paperback with dust jacket also features twenty-five hand-colored black and white photographs by award-winning Alabama photographer Wayne Sides of Florence.

Harper Lee Award winners in the book, edited by AWF executive director Jeanie Thompson, include Albert Murray, Madison Jones, Helen Norris, Sena Jeter Naslund, Mary Ward Brown, Rodney Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Andrew Hudgins, Wayne Greenhaw, and William Cobb.

Gather Up Our Voices is available for $30, which includes shipping and handling, or as a premium with a $100 membership in the Alabama Writers' Forum. To order, contact Nancy Hutcheson at writersforum@bellsouth.net or phone toll free 866-901-1117.

Membership forms can be downloaded from the AWF Web site and included with check payment when ordering the book.

The book is also available at Alabama Booksmith in Homewood and Capitol Book and News in Montgomery. These independent booksellers will be glad to ship the book as well.

All proceeds from the sale of Gather Up Our Voices go to support the programs and services of the Alabama Writers’ Forum.

The Alabama Writers’ Forum
P.O. Box 4777
Montgomery, Alabama 36103-4777
334-265-7728
writersforum@bellsouth.net