Draughon Center, Alabama Writers' Forum hosting Tina Mozelle Braziel, Jim Braziel as visiting writers in September

Maiben Beard | 9/4/2024

Tina Mozelle Braziel and Jim Braziel holding a copy of their book Glass Cabin

The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities at Auburn University and the Alabama Writers' Forum will host authors Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel as visiting writers Sept. 9-13, 2024.

The residency will include university and high school class visits, writing workshops in Opelika and Waverly and a presentation and signing of their new book, "Glass Cabin," at Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11. "Glass Cabin" chronicles the 13 years they spent building their home out of secondhand tin, tornado-snapped power poles and church glass on Hydrangea Ridge.

Tina Mozelle Braziel is the author of "Known by Salt" (Anhinga Press), winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and the 2022 Alabama Library Association Author Award for poetry, and "Rooted by Thirst" (Porkbelly Press). She directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

James Braziel is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of "This Ditch-Walking Love" (Livingston Press), winner of the Tartt First Fiction Prize. He is also the author of the novels "Birmingham, 35 Miles" (Bantam) and "Snakeskin Road" (Bantam).

For more information on attending the writing workshops and book-signing event, email Richard Evans at the Alabama Writers’ Forum or visit the website.

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