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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
27 July – 1
August. I will attend the Appalachian
Writers Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School,
in Kentucky.
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***** Special Joint
Appearance *****
13 August-12 September
(Opening Reception 16 August, 6:30-9:30 PM).
Deb Cidboy, the cover artist for my books, and I will
participate in the Art Exhibition and Gala of the Hampton Fine Arts Gallery in Greensboro,
GA. Deb will offer a painting and I
will sign books.
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24-26 October. I will be
a fiction judge and a conference participant for the South
Carolina Writers Workshop, in Myrtle Beach, SC.
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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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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14-18 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
University
of West Alabama,
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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