Deadline: July 15, 2010 Web: www.bard.edu/bfp E-mail: bfp@bard.edu Entry Fee: None A prize of $30,000 and a one-semester appointment as writer-in-residence at Bard College is given annually to a U.S. fiction writer under the age of 40. The recipient must give at least one public lecture and meet informally with students but is not expected […]
Monroeville Celebrates To Kill a Mockingbird
July 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Monroeville County, Alabama Presents: 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend To Kill a Mockingbird July 8, 2010 – July 11, 2010 Monroeville County Courthouse Want to visit the courthouse where To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed? Journey to Monroeville, Alabama the week of July 8 – 11 for a weekend long celebration of To […]
A TALE OF TWO FARMS
July 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
A TALE OF TWO FARMS July 24, 2010 5:00 p.m. A Southern Summer Celebration Featuring One of the Nation’s Leaders of the Local Food Movement Join P. Allen Smith and executive chef Joshua Smith of Local Roots, Roanoke’s first farm-to-table restaurant, for a garden-fresh culinary experience. The evening begins with live music, a […]
Faulkner Fanatics Gather in Oxford
July 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The 2010 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will examine the topic “Faulkner and Film” through five days of lectures and discussions by literary scholars and critics. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view five or six films based on Faulner’s works. If you consider yourself a Faulkner fanatic, of if you’ve just always wanted an excuse […]
Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing, 11th Annual Southern Music Issue
March 2, 2010 by
Review by Allen Mendenhall Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit because the folks at the Oxford American have done it again! Each year this literary quarterly, proudly published by the University of Central Arkansas, releases a Southern music issue. This year the editors have introduced a new theme—The Southern State […]