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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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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

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

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At all of these events, I will be signing

Walking Wounded and Wounds That Bind.

2009

28 May. 4-7 PM. I will read and sign at Downtown Books, 515 Franklin Street, Corinth, MS. (662) 284-2665

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.

17-19 July. I will participate in the Alabama Writers Conclave conference, in Birmingham, AL.

Earlier events

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My books are available from:

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

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 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.

12-13 June 2009 Appalachian Authors Guild Ÿ Fiction Workshop 21-25 June 2009 Southeastern Writers Association Ÿ Series of Fiction Workshops An article about my workshops appeared in The Huntsville Times

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, 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