Registration has begun for the 12th annual Alabama Writers Symposium to be held on April 30-May 2, 2009. Symposium events will be held on the campus of Alabama Southern Community College, at the Monroeville Community House, and at the Old Courthouse Museum in downtown Monroeville, Ala. This year's theme is "Mystery, Murder, Mayhem, & More."
Participating writers and literary scholars include Nancy Anderson, Philip Beidler, Jake Berry, Rick Bragg, Alan Brown, Kirk Curnutt, Tim Dorsey, Robert Gray, John Hafner, Carolyn Haines, Bert Hitchcock, Frank Turner Hollon, Jennifer Horne, Ravi Howard, Hank Lazer, Don Noble, Julia Oliver, Jennifer Paddock, Tito Perdue, Gin Phillips, Michael Piafsky, Jeanie Thompson and Sue Brannan Walker.
Festival activities include readings, presentations, discussions, workshops, and a dramatization of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
Download the brochure (PDF format) for "Mystery, Murder, Mayhem, & More," 2009 Alabama Writers Symposium.
Midge Coates, Project Manager
This Goodly Land: Alabama's Literary Landscape
