History of On the Brink Writers Conferences
For On the Brink 2010, Watch this space
Annual Conference on Emerging Southern Writers
Jacksonville State University
Held (most) Every Spring Semester
Houston Cole Library- A part of kaleidoscope, the College of Arts and Sciences' festival of the arts -
Past Conferences:
In 2009 On the Brink hosted two special events:
Photos of these events are available at JSU's Photo Database Archive
A Randy Owen Homecoming (March 28)
and
Book Signing with Rick Bragg (May 11)
2008 Conference "Maybe I can explain your devil to you"
WRITERS
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website:
THEIR WORKS
Sonny Brewer
Cormac
Wayne Caldwell
Cataloochee
Caroline Cousins
Way Down Dead in Dixie
Brent Davis
Raising Kane
Gerald Duff
Fire Ants
Ravi Howard
Like Trees, Walking
Carolyn Jourdan
Heart in the Right Place
Lester Laminack
Snow Day!
2007 Conference "I Don't Give a Damn for a Man that Can Only Spell a Word One Way"
WRITERS THEIR WORKS Nancy Grisham Anderson Wrestling with God: The Meditations of Richard Marius Howard Bahr The Judas Field
Thomas Lakeman The Shadow Catchers
Deborah LeBlanc A House Divided
Jack Pendarvis
The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure Charles J. Shields Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Natasha Trethewey Native Guard: Poems
J. Wes Yoder Carry My Bones 2006 Conference "Life's Too Short to Drink Bad 'Shine"
WRITERS THEIR WORKS Clyde Bolton Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off) Sonny Brewer The Poet of Tolstoy Park
Pat Cunningham Devoto The Summer We Got Saved
Beth Ann Fennelly Tender Hooks
Frank Turner Hollon
The Point of Fracture,
Glitter Girl and the Crazy CheeseSuzanne Hudson In the Dark of the Moon
Joshilyn Jackson Gods in Alabama
Theron Montgomery The Procession 2005 Conference "Won't Do to Give Out Too Much Cloth for One Pair of Pants"
WRITERS THEIR WORKS Marlin Barton A Broken Thing Joe Formichella The Wreck of the Twilight Limited
Tom Franklin Hell at the Breech
Tommy Hays The Pleasure Was Mine
Roy Hoffman Chicken Dreaming Corn Gretchen Laskas The Midwife's Tale
Dayne Sherman Welcome to the Fallen Paradise
Frank Stitt Frank Stitt's Southern Table 2003 Conference And I'm Happy for Them to Do It
WRITERS THEIR WORKS Aileen Henderson Tenderfoot Teacher Brian Hicks Raising the Hunley Cassandra King The Sunday Wife Norman McMillan Distant Son Michael Morris A Place Called Wiregrass Lynn Pruett Ruby River Steven Sherrill The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Hans Watford Mortal Strain Isabel Zuber Salt 2002 Conference "House Parties, Family Reunions, and Dinner on the Ground"
WRITERS THEIR WORKS Howard Bahr The Year of Jubilo Marlin Barton The Dry Well
Anthony Grooms Bombingham
Ellen Edwards Kennedy Irregardless of Murder
Michael Knight Dogfight Julia Oliver Music of Falling Water
Carroll Dale Short The Shining, Shining Path
Jeanie Thompson White for Harvest
2001 Conference "Are Y' all Hard at It or Are Ya' Just Gallavantin'?"
THEIR WORKS Nancy Swimmer:
A Story of the Cherokee NationA Parting Gift Beyond the Night Mother of Pearl Friendship Cake Coming Home: Life, Love, and All Things
Southern; Home Fires BurningThe Gospel of Barbecue Change Me into Zeus' Daughter
2000 Conference THE MILLENIUM? SHUCKS, WE MISSED IT!
WRITERS THEIR WORKS Evelyn Coleman What a Woman's Gotta Do William Gay The Long Home Tommy Hays In the Family Way Frank Turner Hollon The Pains of April Luann Landon Dinner at Miss Lady's Dori Sanders Clover Mike Stewart Sins of the Brother
1999 Conference "Damn, boy, I don't think I'd 'a told that"
Nora DeLoach Mama Stalks the Past Tony Earley Here We Are In Paradise Tom Franklin Poachers Judson Mitcham The Sweet Everlasting Phyllis Perry Stigmata Gwyn Rubio Icy Sparks Rick Shelton Hoggle's Christmas Daniel Wallace Big Fish
1998 Conference "Even a Blind Mule Finds an 'Akern' Ever' Once in a While"
Rick Bragg All Over But the Shoutin' Robert Coram Atlanta Heat Jerry Ellis Marching Through Georgia Sibley Fleming How to Rock Your Baby Harvey H. Jackson Putting Loafing Streams to Work John McCormack Fields and Pastures New:
My First Year As a Country VetCharles McNair Land O' Goshen Deborah Smith A Place to Call Home 1997 Conference "'The Devil Made Me Do It' and Other Excuses Why I Write What I Write"
Keith Dunnavant Coach: The Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant Anne George Murder on a Bad Hair Day Charles Ghigna Riddle Rhymes; Tickle Day Marianne Moates A Bridge of Childhood:
Truman Capote's Southern YearsHan Nolan Send Me Down a Miracle Margaret Skinner Molly Flanagan and the Holy Ghost Brad Watson The Last of the Dogmen
1996 Conference "Looking for the Elephant--Was It Worth the Trouble?"
William Baldwin The Hard-To-Catch Mercy Vicki Covington The Last Hotel for Women Kathy Hogan Trocheck To Live and Die in Dixie Myra McClarey Water from the Well Robert Reeves Peeping Thomas Marilyn Dorn Staats Looking for Atlanta Judith Paterson Sweet Mystery Sam Hodges B-Four 1995 Conference "On the Brink"
John Ed Bradley Smoke Dennis Covington Salvation on Sand Mountain Sam Hodges B-Four Libba Moore Gray Miss Tizzy Rheta Grimsley Johnson America's Faces Pamela Grundy You Always Think of Home Marilyn Dorn Staats Looking for Atlanta Clifton Taulbert Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored To 2007 Conference Schedule
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