At a Glance

Thursday, April 2

1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

Induction of Fellowship members and readings

  • Will Campbell
  • Rita Dove
  • Percival Everett
  • Jim Grimsley

A Tribute to Eleanor Ross Taylor

2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 to 4:30 PM

Induction of Fellowship members and readings

  • Fred Hobson
  • Edward Jones
  • Rodney Jones
  • Natasha Trethewey
4:30 to 5:15 p.m.

Book signing

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

John Shelton Reed, Livingood Address
Sponsored by the Chattanooga History Center


Friday, April 3

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

Presentation of Fellowship Prize Winners and Readings

  • Claudia Emerson, Donald Justice Award for Poetry (not attending)
  • Michelle Richmond, Hillsdale Award for Fiction
  • Fred Hobson, Cecil Woods, Jr. Award for Nonfiction
  • Marco Ramirez, Bryan Foundation Award for Drama
10:00 to 11:00 a.m.

Two Dialogues
"Literary Biography-Myth vs. Fact"
Robert Morgan and Shannon Ravenel

"The Changing Atmosphere of Southern Time"
James Applewhite and Elizabeth Spencer

11:00 a.m. to Noon

Presentation of Fellowship Prize Winners and Readings
Moira Crone, Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction

Maurice Manning, Hanes Award for Poetry

Kevin McFadden, George Garrett New Writing Award

Michael McFee, James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South

Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Lunch on your own

2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

"Borrowing Tongues: Writing To and From Another Race"
Panelists: Madison Smartt Bell, Rita Dove, Natasha Trethewey, Allan Gurganus, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan

3:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 to 3:45 p.m.

Tribute to George Garrett - by Richard Bausch and Allen Wier

3:45 to 4:45 p.m.

"The Company We Keep"
Panelists: Andrew Hudgins, Wyatt Prunty, Dave Smith, Ellen Voigt

4:45 to 5:15 p.m.

Musical Presentation by Clyde Edgerton & Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

5:15 to 6:15 p.m.

Book signing

7:30 p.m.

Proclamations - Chattanooga Mayors

Presentation of the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement to Wendell Berry
Presented by Richard Bausch

Keynote Address
Lee Smith

9:00 p.m.

Book signing


Saturday, April 4

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

"From the Stage to the Page: Playwriting"
Panelists: Jim Grimsley, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Marco Ramirez

10:00 to 10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15 to 11:30 a.m.

"...History is the big myth we live..." -Robert Penn Warren
Panelists: Wendell Berry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Allen Wier

Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Luncheon Keynote by Jill McCorkle

2:00 to 3:15 p.m.

"After the Writing is Done-Publishing, Promoting & Dodging the Critic's Arrow"
Dorothy Allison, Roy Blount, Jr., Clyde Edgerton, Barry Hannah, Sam Pickering and Shannon Ravenel (moderator)

3:15 to 3:45 p.m.

Reading by Richard Bausch, Fellowship Chancellor

Adjournment, John Shelton Reed, Fellowship Chancellor-Elect

Book signing


Sponsors

SunTrust - WUTC 88.1

City of Chattanooga Education, Arts & Culture - City of Chattanooga Parks & Recreation - The Pulse - Times Free Press - Coptix - BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

James L. "Bucky" & Diane Wolford - Erlanger Health System - Hacker & Kitty Caldwell - Wild Hare Books - Senator Bob Corker

Baylor School - Chattanooga Funeral Home - Chattanooga State Technical Community College - Chattanooga Coca Cola - Girls Preparatory School - Greyfriars Coffee & Tea - Henry and Colleen Luken - Memorial Health Care System - McCallie School - Southern Adventist University - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the UTC Department of English - BB&T - Cornerstone Community Bank - Patten & Patten, Inc.

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