As the old saying goes, “authors write what they know.” This could not be more true for Beth Albright, Tuscaloosa native and University of Alabama graduate, whose new book series “The Sassy Belles”...

University of Alabama alumni Dana Melton and Jessica Alexander have teamed up to co-author a new young adult novel trilogy series under the pen name Kirby Howell. The duo’s debut trilogy, the Autumn...

University of Alabama alumnus Earl Tilford will be holding a lecture on his book, “Turning the Tide: Birth of the ‘Third,’ The University of Alabama,” and conducting a coinciding tour around...

When I was in high school, there was nothing I liked less than the summer reading list. I thought it was nothing more than a list of dead novelists taking over my pool time. But nowadays, teenage summer...

In a state where 1 in 4 adults is functionally illiterate, high rates of obesity, diabetes and hospitalization may not be as arbitrary as they seem. According to the National Adult Literacy survey by...

Southern Fried Scribes, an eight-week creative writing program funded through Kickstarter, will offer free writing and literacy workshops to high school students in the Black Belt region. The founders...

Since July 2012, travel writer Amber Nolan has been hitchhiking across America. But the 28-year-old travel writer isn’t sticking her thumb out on highways. She’s using small planes. Nolan, who recently...

Often studied, taught and explored, the civil rights movement of the 1960s is the subject of many books. But author Lila Quintero Weaver presents the time period in an alternative way – through the...

The Summersell Center for the Study of the South will host author Lila Quintero Weaver Thursday. Weaver will be speaking about her life experiences as child of South American immigrants and her graphic...