Author Spotlight with the Alabama Literary Review
Join our free online sessions to hear creative readings by authors whose works of prose and poetry were published in the most recent issue of the Alabama Literary Review. Each session will have a question-and-answer segment for audience members who would like to ask our authors about their works, their writing strategies, or the publishing process.

Please register here for free so that we can send you the MS Teams link to join the sessions. We look forward to seeing you online!

Event organized by Ben P. Robertson, Anais Shelley, and Tommy Kay.
Tentative Schedule
All times are USA CENTRAL DAYLIGHT TIME (current time here).
Monday, March 30

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
  • Daniel Tobin - "Dusk, Empire: New and Selected Poems 1987-2024"
  • Steven Monte - "Winter has thrown off its cloak" and "Romeo and Juliet at the Met"
  • Rick Campbell - "Return on the Rivers"

    6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
  • Wendy Sloan - "Terry" and "Fall Brings the Anniversary of Your Death"
  • Ace Boggess - "A Junkie in Rehab," "Gratitude List #24," and "The Dead and the Living"
  • Yasmine Beverly Rana - "Icarus and Amina" and "Chopin at Dusk"
  • Morri Creech - "House of Memory"
    • Tuesday, March 31

    9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
  • Steven Peterson - "Battlefield Tourist" and "Caedmon and the Experts"
  • Terence Culleton - "Carmine House," "Bone," "St. Anorexius," "Fudge Shop," and "Message From a Floating Dock"
  • Ellen Weeren - "Trying to Wrestle a Cat from a Tree"
  • David Middleton - "Time Will Tell: Collected Poems"

    • Wednesday, April 1

    6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
  • Michael Spence - "Advice Before His Blood Pressure Is Taken" and "The Pages Between Us"
  • Mark Belair - "Fashion Statement," "The Summer Night," "The Storm," "Skeeter," "Afternoon Dreams," "Shit Happening," and "The Ocean"
  • Hilary Sideris - "Hyenas," "Maria & Tony," "Posto di Merda," "Sophia," "Vasco," and "Vincenzo on Church Avenue"
  • James B. Nicola

    7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
  • Craig Cotter - "I Can't Buy My Childhood House; Stove"
  • Jarrett Kaufman - "The Muddied Pond or the Polluted Fountain"
  • J. D. Smith - "The Place That Is Coming to Us"
  • Claude Wilkinson - "A Life," "Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh," "October," and "The Imperative of Non Sequiturs"