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]
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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 Nelson 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Dorothy Allison (2007)
- Roy Blount, Jr. (2007)
- Andrew Hudgins (2007)
- 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)
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
See also
References
External links
- The Fellowship of Southern Writers official website
- Arts & Education Council website
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