Latest News from NewSouth Books:
- Aileen Kilgore Henderson awarded Druid Arts Award from the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa
Aileen Kilgore Henderson is much beloved in artistic and historical circles in Alabama. So we are pleased to see her work celebrated last month by the Arts Council of Tuscaloosa, which awarded her the Druid Arts Award in the Literary Arts. The award recognizes the “demonstrated quality of her body of work,” her contributions to the […]
- Author Ken Woodley featured on 1A, an NPR program
Reparations may be a hot topic this election season, but Ken Woodley has been fighting for reparations since the early 2000s. On Joshua Johnson’s 1A (an NPR program), Woodley was featured live on a panel of experts brought together to discuss reparations. The panel included Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Danielle Kurtzleben, author Kirsten Mullen, […]
- Rod Davis wins another award, for lifetime achievement serving veterans
NewSouth author Rod Davis does more than write — he has long been active in veterans’ affairs. Now he has won the Bill Pearson Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western Association of Veterans Education Specialists.
- Jacqueline Trimble wins 2016 Balcones Poetry Prize for debut collection, American Happiness
In a bit of great news, American Happiness, recently published by NewSouth Books, wowed the judges of the Balcones Prize, winning the 2016 award for Jacqueline Allen Trimble in the poetry category. The judges at Austin Community College said of her work, “Hers is a refreshing voice. Her poetry is intimate and irony-filled.” They add, […]
- Frye Gaillard adds Jefferson Cup Honor Book for Go South to Freedom, film documentary about Journey to the Wilderness to list of credits
Award-winning author Frye Gaillard is enjoying a banner year: his book Go South to Freedom has just been named a Jefferson Cup Honor Book for young adult readers by the Virginia Library Association. The Jefferson Cup honors a distinguished biography, work of historical fiction or American history book for young people. Presented since 1983, the […]
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