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The Carson McCullers Conference officially begins Trailfest 2011 on February 17, 2011, in Columbus, Georgia.

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The Carson McCullers Conference officially began Trailfest 2011 on February 17, 2011, in Columbus, Georgia, with hundreds of participants including international fans of Southern Literature.


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Visit these pages for interviews of artists who have traveled the Trail and for tours of featured locations.

Savannah, GA - Pat Conroy announces finalists for the National Book Awards.  Click to read the full story with a list of the nominees.

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Pat Conroy announces finalists for the National Book Awards. Read the full story with a list of the nominees. View video of the ceremony at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home on the Interviews and Tours page.

THE SOUTHERN LITERARY TRAIL connects southern places in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi that inspired great American writers to create classic fiction and plays. The inspiration continues. Every two years, the Trail's organizers host Trailfest, the only tri-state literary festival in the United States with free events, theatrical performances and heritage tours.

TRAILFEST 2011 begins on February 17 in Columbus, Georgia, and concludes on May 8 in Monroeville, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia. Visit our Trail Events page or click on each state below for a schedule of free programs, plays, home tours, and events. The celebrations include centennials of playwright Tennessee Williams and novelist William Bradford Huie, 75 years of Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone with the Wind, and the 45th anniversary of Truman Capote's "Black and White Dance" at New York's Plaza Hotel. For a sneak preview, browse the special scrapbook of photos from Trailfest 2009.

Alabama     Georgia     Mississippi 

Visit our Facebook scrapbook for photos of our Trailfest 2011 events.
   

Eudora Welty, Exposures and Reflections, is an exclusive Southern Literary Trail exhibit organized by The Museum of Mobile that presents Welty's photos of the 1930s South. Eudora Welty circa 1941

EUDORA WELTY, EXPOSURES AND REFLECTIONS

The exhibit Eudora Welty, Exposures and Reflections displays the writer's photographs of the South during the Great Depression. The exhibit was developed by the Museum of Mobile from the writer's original negatives, archived in her home state of Mississippi. For Trailfest 2011, the Atlanta History Center presents Exposures and Reflections with talks by Welty scholars from February 5 through May 8, 2011. This

exhibit is made possible with the support of the Alabama Humanities Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

For more information, visit:

Exhibit Info and History  |  The Curator's Comments  |  Host Museums and Dates

All photographs are printed by permission of Eudora Welty, LLC, and the Eudora Welty Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - His Montgomery, Al., home with wife Zelda is a Trail destination. (Portrait by Maralyn Wilson)GALLERY OF WRITERS

Birmingham, Alabama, artist Maralyn Wilson has created encaustic portraits of the Trail's writers that capture both their mystery and their "luminosity." From here, view the series and navigate pentimento.

Photo at Right: F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Montgomery, Al., home with wife Zelda is a Trail destination. (Portrait by Maralyn Wilson)

Lillian E. Smith

ANNOUNCING THE 2011 LILLIAN E. SMITH AWARD WINNERS

The Lillian E. Smith Foundation has announced two 2011 winners of its first annual Writer-in-Service Award, named in memory of the Clayton, Georgia, writer.
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  MISSISSIPPI
      
  Clarksdale: Tennessee Williams
      
  Columbus: Tennessee Williams
Eudora Welty
      
  Greenville: Walker Percy
Shelby Foote
      
  Jackson: Eudora Welty
Richard Wright
Margaret W. Alexander
      
  Natchez: Richard Wright
      
  Oxford: William Faulkner
 
  ALABAMA
     
  Demopolis: Lillian Hellman
     
  Hartselle: William Bradford Huie
     
  Mobile: Eugene Walter
William March
Albert Murray
     
  Monroeville: Truman Capote
Harper Lee
     
  Montgomery: Zelda S. Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
     
  Tuskegee: Ralph Ellison
Albert Murray
 
GEORGIA
Atlanta: Margaret Mitchell
Joel Chandler Harris
Clayton: Lillian Smith
Columbus: Carson McCullers
Milledgeville: Flannery O’Connor
Alice Walker
Moreland: Erskine Caldwell
Savannah: Flannery O’Connor