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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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I am an editor for Inspiration for Writers. We do all sorts of editing
but I specialize in fiction. Follow the link to our website and check us out.
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At all of these events, I will
sell and sign
Walking Wounded and Wounds That Bind.
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2012
January 20-21
I will teach a class at the Orientation Weekend of the Middle Tennessee State
University Writers’
Loft Certificate in Creative Writing Program. The Orientation
Weekend will be conducted at the Scarritt-Bennett Center, in Nashville, TN. My class, “Real People Sweat,”
will be taught 8:30-10:00 AM on Saturday, 21 January.
June 15-19 I
will teach The Short Story at the Southeastern Writers Association
Conference, at the Epworth Center on Saint Simon’s Island, Georgia.
Visit their website for schedule and registration details.
Earlier events
2006 -
2011
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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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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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