Audio: Mary Ward Brown on Alabama Arts Radio

The April 7 broadcast of the Alabama Arts Radio Series features Alabama author Mary Ward Brown. The program was recorded at the Lunch at the Library program of the Selma-Dallas County Public Library. Ms. Brown read from her new memoir, Fanning the Spark, and was interviewed by Pam Kingsbury of the University of North Alabama.

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Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape

2009 Montevallo Literary Festival, April 16-17

The 2009 Montevallo Literary Festival will be held on April 16 and 17 at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Ala. Festival activities include readings, presentations, films, panels, workshops, and a performance of the Rebecca Gilman play, Boy Gets Girl.

Participating authors include Daniel Anderson, Emma Bolden, Mary Ward Brown, Christopher Chambers, Rebecca Gilman, Hartford Gongaware, Andrew Grace, Anthony Grooms, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, Maurice Manning, Michael Morris, and Janisse Ray.

Fees for non-University of Montevallo students are $45 for the conference only and $95 for the conference plus one workshop. Drama, poetry and prose workshops are available. Workshop participants must register and submit a manuscript by Friday, April 3.

Register for the Montevallo Literary Festival.

View the Festival event schedule.

Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape