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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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At all of these events, I will be signing
Walking Wounded and Wounds
That Bind.
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2008
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***** 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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21-25 June 2009
Southeastern Writers Association
Ÿ Series of Fiction Workshops
An article about my
workshops appeared in The Huntsville Times
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A novel
Available for publication Excerpts
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One of
my stories, “Hot and Sunny on the Fourth,”
was published
in the fiction collection,
Tartts 2.
Livingston Press,
November 2006
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An article about my reading at Bevill State
Community College appeared in the Jasper, AL, Daily Mountain Eagle
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