NEWS FROM BEIL
. . .
Marlin Barton, author of
Dancing by the River and two other Beil titles, is
interviewed by Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama
Writers' Forum, about the writing process and how the teaching of creative
writing to juvenile
offenders has had an impact on Bart's work. He will be a featured speaker at
the
Carolina Mountains Literary Festival, in Burnsville, North Carolina,
September 12−13.
James Sloan Allen, author of the forthcoming
Worldly Wisdom:
Great Books and the Meanings of Life, leads a series of
discussions at
The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction in New York about four
classic novels centering on relations between men and women and issues of
freedom and constraint, ethics and individuality, and art and life.
Charles F. Price, author of
the forthcoming
Nor the Battle to the Strong: A Novel About the American
Revolution in the South, was a finalist in the "Together We Read"
program, which each year promotes the reading and discussion of a single book
throughout the mountains of Western North Carolina (see the
blog on his website).
Charles
J. Johnson, author of
Mary Telfair: The
Life and Legacy of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, continues to work
arduously on behalf of
The Savannah Book Festival.
William C. Harris, Jr., author of
Wassaw Sound,
was a featured speaker at the inaugural
Savannah Book Festival.
H. E. Francis, author of
The Sudden Trees,
Goya, Are You With Me Now?
and The
Invisible Country, was a finalist in the first Parthenon Prize for Fiction
with his new collection of stories, Going Under.