The Fellowship will also award literary prizes to eight newly-emerging writers and honor novelist Ellen Douglas with the 2007 Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Honorees will give readings and participate in school residencies during the Conference on Southern Literature.
New members include the following:
- Dorothy Allison (fiction) of Guerneville, California
- Roy Blount, Jr. (non-fiction) of Mill River, Massachussetts
- Wilma Dykeman (fiction) of Asheville, North Carolina
- Andrew Hudgins (poetry) of Columbus, Ohio
- Edward P. Jones (fiction) of Washington, D.C.
- Randall Kenan (fiction) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Shannon Ravenel (editor and anthologist) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Alfred Uhry (playwright) of New York, New York
The Fellowship will also bestow the following prizes during the Conference:
- 2007 Cecil Woods, Jr. Award for Nonfiction
Roy Reed of West Fork, Arkansas
- 2007 Hillsdale Award for Fiction
Denise Giardina of Charleston, West Virginia
- 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry
Jennifer Grotz of Greensboro, North Carolina
Charlotte Matthews of Crozet, Virginia
- 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South
Pamela Duncan of Saxaphaw, North Carolina
- 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
Dorothy Allison of Guerneville, California
- 2007 Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama
Katori Hall of New York, New York
- 2007 Hanes Award for Poetry
Kathryn Stripling Byer of Cullowhee, North Carolina
Since 1987, the Fellowship has been holding its biennial meetings during the Conference on Southern Literature in Chattanooga, the city in which its archives are held at the University of Tennessee Lupton Library.
“The Conference is without doubt the leading literary event in the South,” says Dr. Louis D. Rubin, award-winning novelist and past Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. “It draws visitors from all over the United States.”
For more information on the Conference on Southern Literature or to register, call 1.800.267.4232 or visit www.ArtsEdCouncil.org.
