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Carson McCullers Conference -
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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Exploring the Trail -
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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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:
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Exhibit Info
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The Curator's Comments
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and Dates
All photographs are printed by permission of
Eudora Welty, LLC, and the Eudora Welty Collection, Mississippi
Department of Archives and History.
 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)
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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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