Celebration of Southern Writing
SELC was pleased to host award-winning author Silas House at the Virginia Festival of the Book in March 2011.
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In the long, proud tradition of southern literature, writers have often drawn on the region's unique natural heritage for inspiration and insight - from the haunting cypress swamps of Georgia, to the tall mountains of western North Carolina, to the rolling fields of the Virginia piedmont. As the South grows and changes, southern writers are increasingly exploring the relationship between nature and man. SELC's Reed Writing Award honors these story tellers who capture in words our landscapes and traditions in transition.
About the Reed Writing Award
The Reed Writing Award is given annually for published works in two categories, Non-fiction Book and Journalism, and is judged by some of the top environmental writers, journalists and activists of our time. Learn More
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SELC is pleased to announce the winners of the 17th annual Reed Environmental Writing Awards.
- Dave Gessner won the Book category for The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill.
- Bruce Henderson won the Journalism category for a three-part series in The Charlotte Observer, "Climate of Change: The Reshaping of North Carolina."
Congratulations to Dave and Bruce! Please see our press release for more details.
We also wish to congratulate the finalists in each category
BOOK:
- Katie Fallon, Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Bird, Ruka Press
- David Joy, Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey, Bright Mountain Books, Inc.
- John Lane, My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas, University of Georgia Press
- Duncan Maysilles, Duckton Smoke: The Fight Over One of the South’s Greatest Environmental Disasters, University of North Carolina Press
- Joe Roman, Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act, Harvard University Press
JOURNALISM:
- Laurence Hammack, three environmental stories from Virginia (coal plants, uranium mining, and wind energy), The Roanoke Times
- Jesse Fox Mayshark, “17,000 Species and Counting,” Metro Pulse (Knoxville)
- Brent Martin, “Hunting for Camellias at Horseshoe Bend,” North Carolina Literary Review
- Scott Wright, series on Weiss Lake pollution, The Post (AL)