Alabama Bound
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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 features 21 authors at the 2006 festival, scheduled for April 15.
2006 participants
- Don Keith, In the Course of Duty
- Kieren 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
External Link
- Alabama Bound website