John Williams

John Williams

Dr. John Williams is currently a mentor in the Reinhardt University MFA Creative Writing program. His novel, End Times (Sartoris Literary Group, 2023) was named a finalist for the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction and Williams was the Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel in 2002 for Lake Moon (Mercer UP). He has written and co-written numerous plays, with several local productions, and published a variety of stories, essays, and reviews through the years. He and co-author Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s play Hiram: Becoming Hank, about the formative years of singer Hank Williams, enjoyed several productions, most recently at the Monroe County, Alabama courthouse in April 2021. His most recent books are Village People: Sketches of Auburn (Solomon and George 2016), and Atlanta Pop in the 50s, 60s, and 70s: The Magic of Bill Lowery, co-authored with Andy Lee White (The History Press, 2019), and Monroeville and the Stage Production of To Kill a Mockingbird” (The History Press, 2023). Other publications can be found on his website at johnmwilliams.net, which hosts his blog, johnmwilliams.net/blog. He live in LaGrange, Georgia.

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