FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTHERN WRITERS

The 'Fellowship of Southern Writers' is a literary organization founded in 1987 at Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The Fellowship was formed by 21 distinguished Southern authors, writers and other literary luminaries. The group meets in every odd-numbered year, usually during the Chattanooga Arts & Education Council Conference on Southern Literature.

Contents

Charter Members

Elected Members

Awards and Honors Given

See also

External links

Charter Members

★ A.R. Ammons

★ Cleanth Brooks

★ Fred Chappell

★ George Core

★ James Dickey

★ Ralph Ellison

★ Horton Foote

★ Shelby Foote

★ John Hope Franklin

★ Ernest J. Gaines

★ George Garrett

★ Blyden Jackson

★ Madison Jones

★ Andrew Lytle

★ Walker Percy

★ Reynolds Price

★ Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

★ Mary Lee Settle

★ Lewis P. Simpson

★ Elizabeth Spencer

★ William Styron

★ Walter Sullivan

★ Peter Taylor

★ Robert Penn Warren

★ Eudora Welty

★ C. Vann Woodward

Elected Members

★ Wendell Berry (1990)

★ Josephine (Ellen Douglas) Haxton (1990)

★ C. Eric Lincoln (1990)

★ Romulus Linney (1990)

★ Lee Smith (1993)

★ Monroe Spears (1993)

★ Charles Wright (1993)

★ Doris Betts (1995)

★ Marsha Norman (1995)

★ James Applewhite (1997)

★ Richard Bausch (1997)

★ Clyde Edgerton (1997)

★ Gail Godwin (1997)

★ William Hoffman (1997)

★ Donald Justice (1997)

★ Dave Smith (1997)

★ Joseph Blotner (2001)

★ Allan Gurganus (2001)

★ Beth Henley (2001)

★ Josephine Humphreys (2001)

★ Bobbie Ann Mason (2001)

★ Henry Taylor (2001)

★ Madison Smartt Bell (2003)

★ Kaye Gibbons (2003)

★ Barry Hannah (2003)

★ Yusef Komunyakaa (2003)

★ Jill McCorkle (2003)

★ John Shelton Reed (2003)

★ Ellen Bryant Voigt (2003)

★ Allen Wier (2003)

★ Larry Brown (2005) – Posthumous, Brown died before he was able to take his seat

★ Percival Everett (2005)

★ Robert Morgan (2005)

★ Lewis Nordan (2005)

★ Sam Pickering (2005)

★ Wyatt Prunty (2005)

Awards and Honors Given

★ The Hillsdale Prize for Fiction

★ The Hanes Prize for Poetry

★ The Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction

★ The Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama

★ The Cecil Woods, Jr. Prize for Non-Fiction

★ The Fellowship's New Writing Award for Fiction

★ The James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South

★ The Fellowship's New Award for Poetry

★ The Cleanth Brooks Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Southern Letters

See also

★ American Literature

★ Southern literature

★ Southern United States

External links

★ The Fellowship of Southern Writers official website

★ Arts & Education Council Website

★ Audio Interview with Larry Brown - RealAudio

★ Audio Interviews with James Dickey - RealAudio

★ Audio Interviews with Gail Godwin - RealAudio

★ Audio Interview with Allan Gurganus - RealAudio

★ Audio Interview with Barry Hannah - RealAudio

★ Audio Interview with Mary Lee Settle - RealAudio

★ Dave Smith Reads His Poetry - RealAudio

★ Audio Interview with Lee Smith - RealAudio

★ Audio Interviews with William Styron - RealAudio