|
.….
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
…..
..
|
At all of these events, I will
sell and sign
Walking Wounded and Wounds That Bind.
|
2009
5 December. 11 AM – 3 PM. I will participate
in the Local
Authors Expo at the Birmingham Public
Library.
2010
15 January. 9 AM –
Noon. I will teach a fiction workshop on writing short stories at the
Orientation Weekend of The Writers Loft at
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN.
15-17 January. I will participate in the Tennessee
Mountain Writers
January Jumpstart, Sweetwater, TN.
11-13 June. I will teach three fiction workshops at the
West Virginia Writers conference
at Cedar Lakes.
Earlier events
…..
..
|
|
There are good stories.
There are safe stories.
There are no good safe stories.
jimmy carl
|
.
 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.
|
 .
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.
|
,,.
|
|
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.
|
15 January 2010
The Writers Loft at MTSU
Ÿ Short Story Workshop
11-13 June 2010
West Virginia Writers
Ÿ Series of Fiction Workshops
An article about my
workshops appeared in The Huntsville Times
|
|
|
A novel
Available for publication Excerpts
|
|
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
|
|
.jpg)
