The 2023 Seven Hills Literary Contest and Penumbra Poetry & Haiku Contest (“The Contest”) is open for entries! We have decided to open the contest to non-members, but members enjoy a $10 discount on each entry. If you aren’t already a member of the Tallahassee Writers Association, you can sign up at https://twaonline.org/membership/purchase. One change from […]
The 2023 Seven Hills Literary Contest and Penumbra Poetry & Haiku Contest
August 4, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Donna Meredith interviews Tim Norbeck, author of “Almost Heaven”
August 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
A Buffalo, New York, native who also spent over thirty years in Connecticut as the state medical society’s CEO, Tim Norbeck is an avid tennis player and history aficionado. He lives with his wife, Michele, and rescue dog, Trouper, in Bonita Springs, Florida. He began writing novels near his retirement and his first, Two Minutes, […]
July Read of the Month: “Deeper than African Soil” by Faith Eidse
July 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Deeper than African Soil (Masthof Press, 2023) by Faith Eidse is a most unusual and exceptionally fine memoir. No wonder Florida State University recognized it with the Kingsbury Award, given annually to a graduate student who demonstrates lasting intellectual value in writing, and with the English Department’s Ann Durham Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award. Several chapters […]
Gwaltney named Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel
June 21, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Congratulations to Robert Gwaltney for his latest award: Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel. Read Dawn Major’s review of his novel The Cicada Tree. Dawn also interviewed Robert. And here is an essay Robert wrote about a writer’s residency. See all the winners in the 2023 contest here.
“With the Devil’s Help” by Neal Wooten
June 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Neal Wooten’s powerful memoir, With the Devil’s Help (Simon & Schuster 2022), begins with a knock-knock—and it isn’t a joke. The men in black suits have shown up at four-year-old Neal’s door and want to speak to his father. This is Neal’s introduction—and ours—to a family mystery: who are these men? Why are they threatening […]
A conversation about “Teaching Black History to White People” by Leonard N. Moore
May 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Teaching Black History to White People (University of Texas Press, 2021) by Leonard N. Moore is an important book that joins the ranks of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, Henry Lewis Gates’s Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, and James W. Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me in assuring that all […]