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Wounds That Bind

 

Prize-winning short fiction published by Iris Press

 

“Jimmy Carl writes with a stunning tenderness about those life has deemed out of bounds: old soldiers who have lost fingers but not hope; old women alone and misunderstood, living off memories and cigarettes. Wounds That Bind is a fierce, gut-wrenching collection, but always beneath the hard edges one senses deep love and understanding for the men and women life has not always treated gently.”    

 

Mark Powell, author of Prodigals and Blood Kin

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Smoking at the Savoy, a

story in Wounds That Bind

 

 

Contents and more reviews

of Wounds That Bind

 

  

Cover by

 Deborah Ann Cidboy

 

  

Cover by

Deborah Ann Cidboy

 

 

Walking Wounded

 

Prize-winning short fiction

published by Iris Press

 

Contents of Walking Wounded

 

Review by Sue Walker,

Alabama Poet Laureate

 

Amazon Review     Other Reviews

 

 

Author Appearances  

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At all of these events, I will be signing

Walking Wounded and Wounds That Bind.

    

2008

 

 

*****   Special Joint Appearance   *****

 

13 August - 30 September.  Deb Cidboy, the cover artist for my books, and I will participate in the exhibition at the Hampton Fine Arts Gallery in Greensboro, GA.  Deb will offer a painting and I will offer signed books.

 

 

6 September. 11 AM-8 PM. I will sell and sign books at the Piccadilly Cafeteria, 2801 Memorial Parkway, Huntsville, AL.

 

24-26 October. I will be a fiction judge and a conference participant for the South Carolina Writers Workshop, in Myrtle Beach, SC.

 

6 December. 11 AM-3 PM. I will participate in the Local Authors Expo at the Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, Al.

 

2009

 

12-13 June. I will teach fiction at the Appalachian Authors Guild conference, Southwest Virginia Community College, Richlands, VA.

 

21-25 June. I will teach Short Fiction at the Southeastern Writers Association conference on Saint Simon’s Island, GA.

 

Earlier events

 

My books are available from:

Jonathan Benton (Mountain Brook, AL)

 Little Professor (Homewood, AL)  

Debs Bookstore (Cullman, AL)

 Downtown Books (Corinth, MS)

Square Books (Oxford, MS)  

Carpe Librum (Knoxville, TN),

Iris Press   Amazon    Barnes and Noble  

Books-A-Million   Author

 

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4747 Seminole Circle

Birmingham, AL  35243

 

(205) 969-2660

 

harrisjc@bellsouth. net

   

Jimmy Carl Harris  
  Author and Teacher 

 

 

There are good stories.  There are safe stories.

There are no good safe stories.

jimmy carl

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I Write About strong women, weak preachers, and brave Marines. Sometimes, I bring them all together, often in the small town and rural South. For some of my stories I invented Nall County, Alabama and Azalea Springs, Mississippi. However, I have a particular feel for the industrial South, especially the mills and streets of Birmingham. I didn’t need to invent Birmingham. I don’t shy away from life, death, or authentic language. 

  

 

Meet the Author.

 

I live to write in Birmingham, Alabama. I’ve won a number of writing prizes, including four Hackney Literary Awards. I’ve been published in several literary journals, including The Louisville Review, Appalachian Heritage, Confluence, ByLine, Nine, and the Birmingham Arts Journal.  My stories have also been published in Ireland and Australia.

 

 

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Creative Writing Workshops

 

 

 

Workshops

 

 

My workshops can be stand-alone sessions or a sequence of learning experiences. Flexible in length, they are appropriate for a wide range of interests and abilities.

21-25 June 2009

Southeastern Writers Association

Ÿ   Series of Fiction Workshops

 

 

 

An article about my workshops appeared in The Huntsville Times

 

 

Sons of Ebenezer

A novel   Available for publication   Excerpts

 

 

 

Kaiten 

A novel in progress   Prologue

 

 

 

One of my stories, “Hot and Sunny on the Fourth,”

was published in the fiction collection, Tartts 2.

Livingston Press, November 2006

 

 

 

An article about my reading at Bevill State Community College appeared in the Jasper, AL, Daily Mountain Eagle

 

 

 

Walking Wounded and Wounds That Bind

were featured at the Southern Festival of Books