Fellowship of Southern Writers

Fellowship of Southern Writers

The Fellowship of Southern Writers is a literary organization founded in 1987 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by 21 Southern authors, writers and other literary luminaries. The group meets in every odd-numbered year, usually during the [http://artsedcouncil.org 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. [ [http://www.newsobserver.com/308/story/759906.html newsobserver.com | Extending the lines ] ]

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)
* 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

* 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

ee also

*American Literature
*Southern literature
*Southern United States

References

External links

* [http://thefsw.org The Fellowship of Southern Writers] official website
* [http://artsedcouncil.org Arts & Education Council website]
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