The 2025 Alabama Writing Workshop is an annual one-day writers conference held in Birmingham on Friday, March 14, 2025: https://alabamawritingworkshop.com/

The full-day “How to Get Published” writing event will be held at the Embassy Suites Birmingham.

This writing event is a great opportunity to:

• get intense instruction

• pitch a literary agent or editor

• get your questions answered

• and more!

Seats are limited to 140, so Register Today!

The Alabama Writers’ Forum is planning to give this award out to organizations and individuals who have followed Jeanie’s example in promoting the literary arts in our state.

Jessica Jones Langston, President of AWC, will accept the award on behalf of AWC at the Alabama Writers’ Forum Gala on March 7, 2025 at the Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Cheers to an incredible night celebrating the AWC, the AWF, and all that Jeanie Thompson has done for writers throughout Alabama and beyond. Congratulations to the 8 inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame! The 2025 class inductees include Ace Atkins, Frye Gaillard,  Joy Harjo, Janice Harrington, Robert McCammon, and Dr. Sue Brannan Walker. Authors C. Eric Lincoln and Brad Watson will be inducted posthumously.