Please note that the Author Schedule may change
North Tent
Children's & Young Adult Literature
10:00am - 10:30am Leslie Rivver (young readers)
10:45am - 11:15am Ash Parsons (young adult)
11:30am - 12:00pm Alan Katz (young readers)
12:15pm - 12:45pm Lisa Lewis Tyre (young readers)
1:00pm - 2:15pm PBS Young Writers and Illustrators Awards
2:30pm - 3:00pm Gin Phillips (young adult)
Molton House
Fiction & Nonfiction
10:00am - 10:30am Ross Howell & Derryn Moten
Forsaken
10:45am - 11:15am Deni Dietz & Jessie Bishop Powell
Mystery & Crime: When Cozies Aren't So Cozy
11:30am - 12:00pm Marian Carache, Tom McDonald, Loretta Cobb
Southern Trails
12:15pm - 12:45pm Vanessa Davis Griggs & Kendra Norman
Black Women's Fiction
1:00pm - 1:30pm Katherine Clark & Celeste Fletcher McHale
Coming to Grips with Writing Southern
1:45pm - 2:15pm Juyanne James & Jeff Weddle
Adventures in the Short Story
2:30pm - 3:00pm Laura McNeill & J.D. Frost
Suspense, Action & Adventure
Log Cabin Tent
Fiction & Nonfiction
10:00am - 10:30am Mark Fagan (Alabama golf)
10:45am - 11:15am Joshua Sher, Lexi George, L.A. Patrick
Weird South
11:30am - 12:00pm Lynn Cullen & Anne Girard
Fictionalizing Real People
1:00pm - 1:30pm Kirk Curnutt & Miriam Herin
Contests, Prizes, & Getting into Print
1:45pm - 2:15pm Jeff Newberry, Matthew Guinn, Rod Davis
Southern Gothic & Mysteries
2:30pm - 3:00pm John Sledge & Frye Gaillard
Alabama Coastal Waters
3:15pm - 3:45pm Bill Cobb, Julian McPhillips
Stirring the Southern Memoir Pot
Church
Poetry
9:30am - 10:00am Abraham Smith
10:00am - 10:30am Shanti Weiland
10:45am - 11:15am Peter Huggins
11:30am - 12:00pm Nathan Parker
12:15pm - 12:45pm Ji Yoon Li
1:00pm - 1:30pm Nate Marshall
1:45pm - 2:15pm Lauren Slaughter
2:30pm - 3:00pm Jason McCall
South Tent
Fiction & Nonfiction
10:00am - 10:30am Steve Flowers (Alabama politics)
10:45am - 11:30am Rheta Grimsley Johnson (memoir)
11:45am - 12:15pm Padgett Powell (fiction)
12:30pm - 1:00pm Rick Bragg (essays)
1:15pm - 1:45pm Homer Hickam (fiction)
2:00pm - 2:45pm Suzanne Lea, B Andrew Plant, Vickie Spray
Stories of Strength & Courage: Coming Out in the South
3:00pm - 4:00pm Natasha Tretheway with Lauren Rule Maxwell
Hall-Waters Prize winner & 19th Poet Laureate of the United States
Loeb Center Auditorium
Writing Workshops
9:00am - 10:00am Anne Girard
Writing Fiction
10:15am - 11:00am Vanessa Davis Griggs
The Write Touch with African American & Inspirational Fiction
11:15am - 12:15pm Robin McDonald & Valerie Pope Burnes
Stories through Words and Photos
12:30pm - 1:30pm Deni Dietz
Pitching & Submitting Fiction to Publishers
1:45pm - 2:45pm Nicole Yorkin & Dawn Prestwich
Screenwriting
3:00pm - 4:00pm Nathaniel Allen
Sequential Arts Illustration (aka Comic Books)