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At a Glance

Thursday, April 14, 2011

10:00 to 10:30 a.m.

A Conversation With...Elizabeth Spencer and Kevin McCarthy

10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Film Premiere: Landscapes of the Heart, The Elizabeth Spencer Story

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

2:00 - 2:15 p.m.

George Garrett New Writing Award - James Hall
Presented by Rodney Jones

2:15 - 3:15 p.m.

Meet the New Fellowship of Southern Writers Fiction Writers-
Percival Everett, Ann Patchett, Jayne Anne Phillips, & Padgett Powell

BREAK

3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South-Jeff Daniel Marion
Presented by Lee Smith

3:45 - 4:45 p.m.

A Writer's Response to Environmental Threats: They're Hauling Away My Place-Preserving the Southern Landscape
Wendell Berry (invited), Bobbie Ann Mason, Natasha Trethewey, & Lee Smith

5:00 - 5:30 p.m.

BOOK SIGNING

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, 2009

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, 2009

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


Grant Support Provided By

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust - Chazen Family Foundation - The Kennedy Foundation - Lyndhurst Foundation - Public Education Foundation - Tennessee Arts Commisson - UC Foundation

Media Sponsors

Brewer Media - Chattarati - WDEF News 12 - WUTC 88.1

Program Partners

Anonymous Gift - Baylor School - Medium - Olan & Norma Mills II

Book Patrons

L. Hardwick & Kitty Caldwell - Memorial Healthcare System - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the UTC Department of English - Wild Hare Books

AEC is a funded member of Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga.

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