Fellowship of Southern Writers

The Fellowship of Southern Writers is an American literary organization that celebrates the creative vitality of Southern writing as the mirror of a distinctive and cherished regional culture. Its fellowships and awards draw attention to outstanding literary achievement and help to nurture new talent.

The fellowship was founded in 1987 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by 21 Southern writers and other literary luminaries. In 2007, it formalized its own structure, electing its first board of directors and hiring its first executive director, Susan Robinson.^[1] The group meets in every odd-numbered year, usually during the Chattanooga Arts & Education Council Conference on Southern Literature.

Charter members[]

Elected members[]

Wendell Berry (1990)
Ellen Douglas (Josephine Haxton) (1990)
C. Eric Lincoln (1990)
Romulus Linney (1990)
Lee Smith (1993)
(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)

Ellen Bryant Voigt (2003)
Allen Wier (2003)
Larry Brown (2005)^[2]
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)
(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 C. Vann Woodward-John Hope Franklin Prize for the Writing of Southern History
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^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Posthumous, Brown died before he was able to take his seat
^ "A Literary Reunion". chapter16.org.

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

[1] wsobserver.com | Extending the lines^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] Posthumous, Brown died before he was able to take his seat

[3] "A Literary Reunion". chapter16.org.

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