Friday, April 3

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

Presentation of Fellowship Prize Winners

  • 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
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 - 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

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.

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

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