Fellowship of Southern Writers

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

In 2007, the fellowship formalized its own structure, electing its first board of directors and hiring its first executive director, Susan Robinson.^[1]

Charter members

Elected members

Wendell Berry (1990)
Ellen Douglas (Josephine 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)

Randall Kenan (2007)
Shannon Ravenel (2007)
Alfred Uhry (2007)
Will D. Campbell (2009)
Rita Dove (2009)
Percival Everett (2009)
Jim Grimsley (2009)
Edward P. Jones (2009)
Fred Hobson (2009)
Rodney Jones (2009)
Eleanor Ross Taylor (2009)
Natasha Trethewey (2009)
Al Young (2009)
Tony Earley (2010)
Claudia Emerson (2011)

•Steve Yarbrough(2015)^[3]

Awards and honors

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

References

↑ newsobserver.com | Extending the lines
↑ Posthumous, Brown died before he was able to take his seat
↑ http://www.chapter16.org/content/celebration-southern-literature-brings-many-south’s-finest-writers-chattanooga

External links

The Fellowship of Southern Writers official website
Arts & Education Council website
Oral History Interview with Blyden Jackson from Oral Histories of the American South

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