In Residence at the Lowrey Guest House
- Jim and Tina Mozelle Braziel • September 9-13
- Terah Shelton Harris • September 23-27
- Danielle Fixico • September 30 - October 4
- Annette Jordan • October 14 - October 18
Jim and Tina Mozelle Braziel • September 9-13
Tina Mozelle Braziel is the author of Known by Salt (Anhinga Press), winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and the 2022 Alabama Library Association Author Award for poetry, and Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly Press). She directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
James Braziel is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of This Ditch-Walking Love, winner of the Tartt First Fiction Prize (Livingston Press). He is also the author of the novels Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam) and Snakeskin Road (Bantam).
Free and Open to the Public
Tuesday, September 10, 5:30 PM • Opelika Public Library
Writing Workshop: People We Don’t Want to Forget
Wednesday, September 11, 6:30 PM • Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers
In Conversation with Tina Mozelle Braziel and Jim Braziel
Thursday, September 12, 5:30 PM • Standard Deluxe
Writing Workshop: Celebrating Place
In partnership with the Alabama Writers' Forum. The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, works to cultivate our state’s literary culture.
Terah Shelton Harris • September 23-27
Terah Shelton Harris is a librarian and freelance writer, who now writes upmarket fiction with bittersweet endings. As a freelancer, her work has appeared in consumer and trade magazines including Catapult, Women’s Health, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Backpacker, Minority Nurse, and more. Her first novel, One Summer in Savannah, was a LibraryReads and Target Book Club Pick. Her second book, Long After We Are Gone, was published in May 2024.
In partnership with the Alabama Public Library Service, Harris will be speaking at five public libraries.
Free and Open to the Public
Monday, September 23, 3:00 PM • Oxford Public Library
110 East 6th Street, Oxford, AL 36203
For more information: 256-831-1750, amy.henderson@oxfordal.gov
Wednesday, September 25, 5:00 PM EST • Phenix-City Russell County Library
1501 17th Avenue, Phenix City, AL 36867
For more information: 334-297-1139, thenry@phenixcityal.us
Thursday, September 26, 11:00 AM • Tallassee Community Library
99 Freeman Avenue, Tallassee, AL 36078
For more information: 334-283-2732, checkitout.tclibrary@gmail.com
Thursday, September 26, 6:00 PM • Opelika Public Library
1100 Glenn Street, Opelika, AL 36801
For more information: 334-705-5380, abjones@opelika-al.gov
Friday, September 27, 2:00 PM • Enterprise Public Library
101 E. Grubbs Street, Enterprise, AL 36330
For more information: Sheila Harris, director@enterpriselibrary.org
Danielle Fixico • September 30 - October 4
Danielle Fixico is a Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Choctaw artist from Morris, Oklahoma. She recently completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting at the University of Oklahoma where she also received her B.A. degree in Native American studies in 2019. She is an alumnus from the College of the Muscogee Nation, where she is now an adjunct fine art professor. Her work focuses on raising awareness for women’s issues in Native American communities through the combination of fine art, symbols, and materials from her southeastern Native American culture. Danielle was a 2022-2023 Center for Native American Youth Remembering Our Sisters fellow. Her work has been featured in the Tribal College Journal, publications from the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, and is used for the May 5th national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). She has been exhibited in shows at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Cherokee Heritage Center, In Your Eye Gallery, Chokma’si Gallery, the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, MainSite Gallery and Exhibit C Gallery.
Annette Jordan • October 14 - October 18
Annette Jordan (left) learned the art of pine needle basket weaving from her mother, Mary Hicks (right), over thirty years ago. She is passionate about carrying on this tradition and her mother’s legacy through making, teaching, and creating “a long-lasting art from the natural environment.”
In partnership with the Alabama Folklife Association.
Pine Needle Basket Weaving Workshops
Monday, October 14, 10 AM to 12 PM • Tuskegee University Legacy Museum
Tuesday, October 15, 10 AM to 12 PM • Shorter Legacy Center
Contact dcpowell@shorteral.gov or 334-727-9190 to register.
Wednesday, October 16, 3 PM to 5 PM • Pebble Hill
Contact maiben@auburn.edu or 334-844-4903 to register.
Thursday, October 17, 10 AM to 12 PM • Tallassee Community Library
Contact checkitout.tclibrary@gmail.com or 334-283-2732 to register.