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Agenda
Thursday, April 15, 2022
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| 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Conference Registration | |
| UTC Fine Arts Center |  |
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| 10:00 am - 4:30 pm | Fellowship of Southern Writers Archives | |
| UTC Lupton Library | |
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| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm | “Tell About the South” Volume I | |
| Phillips Temple (across from UTC Fine Arts Center) | ||
| >> Producer/director/writer Ross Spears discusses the first of his three-part series, "Tell About the South," the story of Southern literature in film. Authors spotlighted in Spears’ series are William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Shelby Foote, Ernest Gaines, and William Styron, among others. | ||
| Box lunches available (pre-registration required). | |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Address > Kaye Gibbons | |
| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm | Reading > Wit, a play by Margaret Edson 1999 Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama |
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| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Livingood Lecture: Wilma Dykeman | |
| “The Many Voices of History” | ||
| >> The Livingood address is sponsored by the Chattanooga Regional History Museum. |
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| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 6:00 pm | Chattanooga Sings! | |
| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 8:00 pm | Southern Voices [a series of one act plays] | |
| Chattanooga Theatre Center (separate ticketed event) | ||
| >> For tickets, contact the Chattanooga Theatre Centre, 423.267.8534 |
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| Friday, April 16,2022
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| 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Conference Registration | |
| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 8:55 am | Welcome & Conference Opening Rhoda Ruffner, 1999 Conference Chairperson |
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| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 9:00 am | Welcome Dr. Bill Stacy, UT-Chattanooga Chancellor |
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| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Panel discussion > Lace to Leather: Portrayal of Women in Southern Literature. |
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| Panel members: Janice Daugharty, Kaye Gibbons, Barry Hannah, and Michael Knight; Verbie Prevost, Moderator. | ||
| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 10:15 am - 12:00 pm | “Tell About the South” Volume II, a film by Ross Spears | |
| Phillips Temple (across from UTC Fine Arts Center) | ||
| Box lunches available (pre-registration required) | |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Break | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Concurrent panel discussions > | |
| Southern Literature on the Edge of the Millennium | ||
| Panel Members: Wendell Berry, C. Eric Lincoln, Lee Smith, and Walter Sullivan; Doris Betts, Moderator | ||
| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| Panel Members: Richard Bausch, George Core, Clyde Edgerton, and Elizabeth Spencer; George Garrett, Moderator | ||
| Phillips Temple (across from UTC Fine Arts Center) | |
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| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Reading: T. R. Hummer 1999 Hanes Poetry Prize Winner |
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| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Panel discussion > “A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art: Teaching Poetry” | |
| Panel Members: James Applewhite, Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, and Dave Smith; Earl Braggs, Moderator | ||
| UTC Fine Arts Center | |
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| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Bluff View Arts District | |
| >>Bluff View Arts District Welcomes the Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature with a Four Course Culinary Salute to the South at Renaissance Commons. Reservations Required. $30 per person. Includes free admission to the Huger Foote Photography exhibit at River Gallery. | ||
| For information call 423.265.5033, ext. 4. | |
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| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Registration | |
| Tivoli Theatre | |
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| 8:00 pm | Welcome | |
| Arts & Education Council Executive Director | |
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| Introductions | ||
| Doris Betts, Chancellor, Fellowship of Southern Writers | |
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| Induction of New Members | ||
| Doris Betts | |
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| Awards Presentation: | |
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| Hillsdale Prize for Fiction | ||
| Bobbie Ann Mason | |
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| Hanes Prize for Poetry | ||
| T. R. Hummer | |
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| Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction | ||
| Barry Hannah | |
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| Bryan Family Foundation Drama Prize | ||
| Margaret Edson | |
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| The Fellowship's Non-Fiction Prize | ||
| James Everett Kibler | |
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| The Fellowship's New Writing Award | ||
| Michael Knight | |
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| James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South | ||
| Charles Frazier | |
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| Cleanth Brooks Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Southern Letters | ||
| Shelby Foote | |
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| Memorial Tributes | ||
| Monroe K. Spears | |
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| Keynote Address: | ||
| Horton Foote | |
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| Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African-American Songs | ||
| Roland Carter, Director | |
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| Reception -- Tivoli Theatre Lobby | |
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| Saturday April 17, 2022 (Tivoli Theatre)
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| 8:00 am | Conference Registration | |
| Tivoli Theatre | |
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| 8:30 am | Welcome | |
| 8:30 am - 9:30 am | Address | |
| Janice Daugharty | |
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| 9:45 am - 10:45 am | Panel discussion > Fact or Fiction: Defining the Boundaries in Historical Writing | |
| Panel Members: Wilma Dykeman, Shelby Foote, Charles Frazier, Romulus Linney, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., and Mary Lee Settle; Bill Berry, Moderator. | ||
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Address | |
| Kelly Cherry | |
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| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch with Fred Chappell | |
| (separate ticketed event) | ||
| >> North Carolina poet laureate Fred Chappell will speak at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo. (Mr. Chappell’s address is included in Conference registration, but lunch is $15 extra. Reservations are required. Seating is limited.) | ||
| 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm | Address | |
| Randall Kenan | |
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| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Honoring Eudora Welty at 90 | |
| --a reading by Arlie Herron | |
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| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Music Presentation | |
| >> Norman Blake bills himself as simply an Old Time Country Musician. But he’s a hit with the cityslicker press, ranging from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution-- “a sound as clean and forceful as Hemingway’s prose” to the San Francisco Examiner--“American music of incomparable purity and integrity.” | ||
| 4:45 pm | Adjournment | |
| Rhoda Ruffner, 1999 Conference Chair | |
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| 4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Book Signing in Tivoli Lobby | |
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Photography > Lane Brown Taylor