ON THE BRINK 2010
STONE CENTER THEATRE | JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010
For more information on the 2010 One the Brink Conference CLICK HERE
Annual Conference on Emerging Southern Writers
Held (most) Every Spring Semester at the Houston Cole Library
Past Conferences:
In 2009 On the Brink hosted two special events:
A Randy Owen Homecoming (March 28) and Book Signing with Rick Bragg (May 11)
Photos of these events are available at JSU's Photo Database Archive
2008 Conference "Maybe I can explain your devil to you"
WRITERS and WORKS: (click on name to jump to author website)
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 and 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 and 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 Cheese
Suzanne 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 and 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 and 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 and 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'?"
WRITERS and THEIR WORKS
Clyde Bolton - Nancy Swimmer: A Story of the Cherokee Nation
Ben Erickson - A Parting Gift
Wayne Greenhaw - Beyond the Night
Melinda Haynes - Mother of Pearl
Lynne Hinton - Friendship Cake
Robert Inman - Coming Home: Life, Love, and All Things Southern; Home Fires Burning
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers - The Gospel of Barbecue
Barbara Robinette Moss - Change Me into Zeus' Daughter
2000 Conference "THE MILLENIUM? SHUCKS, WE MISSED IT!"
WRITERS and 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 Vet
Charles 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 Years
Han 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
For information, contact:
Steven J. Whitton, swhitton@jsu.edu
Gena Christopher, genac@jsu.edu
Department of English
PHONE: 256-782-5411
FAX: 256-782-5441
