Alabama Bound
Alabama Bound is a yearly book festival held since 1999 at the Birmingham Public Library with invited Alabama authors giving readings and presentations from recent works. It is organized by Linda Wilson and usually is scheduled for the same weekend as the Magic City Art Connection at Linn Park.
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2008 festival
The 10th annual Alabama Bound festival was programmed to complement The Big Read: Project Mockingbird with panelists discussing the influence of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, along with food and entertainment. Participants include:
- Wayne Flynt, historian
- Chris Metress, Samford University Department of English
- Tondra Loder-Jackson, UAB Assistant Professor
- Mary Badham, actress (To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962)
- Sandy Jaffe, film producer (Our Mockingbird, 2008)
- Red Mountain, string band
- Four Eagles, gospel quartet
- Irondale Cafe, lunch catering
2007 festival
1,439 visitors came to hear 19 authors who were part of the one day event on April 14, 2007:
- Hester Bass, So Many Houses
- Mark Childress, One Mississippi
- William Cobb, Hermit King
- Ruth Cook, Guests Behind the Barbed Wire
- Sylviane Diouf, Grantville Gazette III
- Charles Ghigna, Love Poems
- Rubin Grant, Tales from Alabama Prep Football
- Tim Hollis, Birmingham Broadcasting, Glass Bottom Boats and Mermaid Tails: Florida's Tourist Springs, Mouse Tracks: the Story of Walt Disney Records, Six Flags Over Georgia
- Randall Horton, Definition of Place
- Angela Johnson, Wind Flyers
- Watt Key, Alabama Moon
- Caitlín R. Kiernan, Daughter of Hounds
- Julia Oliver, Devotion
- Delia Ray, Singing Hands
- Gregory Reece, Elvis Religion, the Cult of the King
- John Sledge, An Ornament to the City
- Carolyn Quick Tillery, Southern Homecoming
- Ann Waldron, Rare Murder in Princeton
Alabama Bound also hosted two local publishers Birmingham Arts Journal and OnStage Publishing, and several writers' groups including Alabama Media Professionals, Alabama Writers Conclave, Alabama Writers Forum, Booker T. Washington Magnet School creative writing, Women Writing for Change, and Writing Today. Funding for the event was provided by the Jefferson County Community Arts Fund and the Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
2006 festival
21 authors participated in the one day event on April 15, 2006:
- Don Keith, In the Course of Duty
- Kieran Quinlan, Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South
- Paul Hemphill, Lovesick Blues
- Charles Ghigna, Oh, My, Pumpkin Pie
- Clyde Bolton, Stop the Presses
- Kirk McNair, What it Means to be Crimson Tide
- Allan Barra, Last Coach
- Doris Davenport, Madness like Morning Glories
- Deborah Ford, Grits are Friends Forevah
- Michael Swindle, Slouching Towards Birmingham
- Diann Jordan, Sisters in Science
- Andy Duncan, Alabama Curiosities
- Sonny Brewer, Poets of Tolstoy Park
- Joe Hilley, Double Take
- John Morgan, Miles College: The First Hundred Years
- Gary Sprayberry, Miles College: The First Hundred Years"
- Scott Stantis, Prickly City
- Peter Huggins, Trosclair and the Alligator
- Kathleen Sherwood, McKenna
- Brenda Rhodes Miller, Church Ladies Celestial Suppers
- John O. Northrup, Mayor Todd
2005 participants
- Leslie Bailey, Hey Leslie! What's Cooking
- Philip Beidler, Late Thoughts on an Old War
- Tony Bolden, Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture
- Tamra Carraway-Hinckle, Baseball In Mobile
- Joe Cuhaj, Baseball In Mobile
- Vonetta Flowers, Running on Ice
- Charles Ghigna, Animal Tracks; If You Were My Valentine
- Faye Gibbons, Horace King: Bridges to Freedom; The Day the Picture Man Came
- Vanessa Griggs, Davis Wings of Grace
- Tim Hollis, Florida's Miracle Strip
- Jo Kittinger, When I Grow Up
- Dorothy McDaniel, Dorothy's Simply Beautiful Flowers
- Margo Manning, Harley and Davidson Family Recipes
- Cynthia Mask, Moon of the Wishing Night
- Debby Nakos, Small-Batch Baking
- James L. Noles, Hearts of Dixie: Fifty Alabamians and the State They Called Home
- Rob Pate, A Tiger's Walk: Memoirs of an Auburn Football Player
- Warren St. John, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
- Elizabeth Schafer, Auburn Football
- Richard Scott, Legends of Alabama Football
- Mike Stewart, A Perfect Life
- Frank Stitt, Frank Stitt's Southern Table
- Rob Trucks, Cup of Coffee: The Very Short Careers of Eighteen Major League Pitchers
- W. H. Watford, Lethal Risk
- Billie Jean Young, Fear Not The Fall
2001 participants
More than 50 authors, including:
- Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'
- Vicki Covington and Dennis Covington, Cleaving
- Anne George, The Southern Sisters Mysteries
- Charles Gaines, The Next Valley Over
- Charles Ghigna & Debra Ghigna, Christmas Is Coming
- Robert Inman, Coming Home
- Marvin Yeomans Whiting, Vestavia Hills: A Place Apart.
External Link
- Alabama Bound website with event schedule
