Dear Holly,
You are cordially invited to The 2010 Townsend Prize for Fiction award ceremony and reception, co-sponsored by the Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College, the Atlanta Writers Club, Georgia Center for the Book, and the Atlanta History Center/Margaret Mitchell House.
Date:
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Location:
Margaret Mitchell House
990 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
Schedule of Events:
Reception, Award Presentation, and Book Signing
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Welcome
Dr. Anthony S. Tricoli, President of Georgia Perimeter College
Keynote Speaker
Fred Chappell, author and former Poet Laureate of North Carolina
Master of Ceremony
Robin David Jenkins, Director
Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College
This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to Debbie Riggs at debra.riggs@gpc.edu or call 678-891-3275.
2010 nominees to be announced shortly.
Past winners of the Townsend Prize for Fiction:
Celestine Sibley, Children, My Children (1982)
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1984)
Philip Lee Williams, The Heart of a Distant Forest (1986)
Mary Hood, And Venus Is Blue (1988)
Sara Flanigan, Alice (1989)
Charlie Smith, The Lives of the Dead (1990)
Ferrol Sams, When All the World Was Young (1991)
Pam Durban, The Laughing Place (1994)
JoAllen Bradham, Some Personal Papers (1996)
Judson Mitcham, The Sweet Everlasting (1998)
James Kilgo, Daughter of My People (2000)
Ha Jin, The Bridegroom: Stories (2002)
Terry Kay, The Valley of Light (2004)
Judson Mitcham, Sabbath Creek (2006)
Renee Dodd, A Cabinet of Wonders (2008)