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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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ŸŸŸŸ NEW ŸŸŸŸ Wounds That Bind has been nominated for Appalachian Book of the Year, bestowed by the Appalachian Writers Association Smoking at the Savoy A story in Wounds That Bind Contents and more reviews of Wounds That Bind

Cover by Deborah Ann Cidboy

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

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Prize-winning short fiction Published by Iris Press Contents of Walking Wounded Review by Sue Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama Other Reviews .

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At all of these events, I will be signing

Walking Wounded and Wounds That Bind.

2008

6-7 June. I will teach a fiction workshop at the Tennessee Writers Alliance conference, in Franklin, TN.

15-19 June. I will attend the Southeastern Writers Association conference on Saint Simon’s Island, GA.

11-13 July. I will teach a fiction workshop (critique group) at the Appalachian Writers Association conference, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY.

18-20 July. I will teach three sessions on writing short fiction and I will conduct critique sessions for the Alabama Writers Conclave conference at the Sheraton Capstone in Tuscaloosa, AL.

2009

14-18 June. I will teach Short Fiction at the Southeastern Writers Association conference on Saint Simon’s Island, GA.

Earlier events

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My books are available from:

Jonathan Benton (Mountain Brook, AL) Debs Bookstore (Cullman, AL)

Little Professor (Homewood, 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

There are good stories. There are safe stories.

There are no good safe stories.

jimmy carl

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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.

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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.

publications and prizes personal history education ..military honors

Professional Education Links. positions...writing...presentations honors, credentials, organizations

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Workshops My eight 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. .An article about my workshops appeared in The Huntsville Times

6-7 June 2008 Tennessee Writers Alliance Ÿ Write Risky 11-13 July 2008 Appalachian Writers Association Ÿ Fiction Workshop (critique group) 18-20 July 2008 Alabama Writers Conclave Ÿ Opportunity to Discover Ÿ Complex Dialogue Ÿ Risk in Writing

A novel Available for publication

Excerpts

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

University of West Alabama, November 2006