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September 2024
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June 2024
Professor Don Noble reads "Negro Progress" on Alabama Aloud, a podcast from Troy State's NPR station. "Negro Progress," from the story collection Trouble No More, follows Carlton Wilkes, a privileged black man as he negotiates his commitment to change during the Birmingham, Alabama Civil Rights Movement. Listen here.
Atlanta Journal & Constitution
​Bookshelf: Georgia Author of Year Awards honor local writers
By Suzanne Van Atten
June 21, 2024
Atlanta author Anthony Grooms, formerly a professor at Kennesaw State University and director of its masters in professional writing program until his retirement in 2022, has been bestowed with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Georgia Author of the Year Awards (GAYA). The winners were announced on Facebook earlier today.
Grooms is a two-time winner of the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the Legacy Award from the Hurston-Wright Foundation and a Fulbright scholar. His books include “Bombingham,” a 2002 novel about two young friends who come of age witnessing the violence of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, and “The Vain Conversation,” a 2018 novel about a young boy who witnesses the lynching of two Black couples and struggles to come to terms with it as an adult (end of excerpt).
For video of presentation go to https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaWritersAssociation/
January 2024
I am pleased to announced that New York-based Anita Lo is the winner of the inaugural Anthony Grooms Short Fiction Prize for her story “52 Pick-Up.” The Prize is sponsored by The Headlight Review. For more information, visit theheadlightreview.com
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MARCH 2019
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TRIO publishes Eric Erdman's "Where Do We Go From Here," a musical response to The Vain Conversation. https://www.ericerdmanmusic.com/
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
The Vain Conversation designated an Honor Book for Fiction for 2019 by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
OCTOBER 2018
The Vain Conversation selected as a Great Group Reads 2018 Selection by the Women’s National Book Association.
AUGUST 16, 2018
The Vain Conversation is inducted into the Books All Georgians Should Read List by the Georgia Center for the Book!
FEBRUARY 2015
Kirkus and AJC reviews!
Read early reviews of The Vain Conversation (click on title).
Atlanta Journal and Constitution
KSU News Main Page Article
A coveted main page article from KSU is running February 2018. Click on the title for the article.
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MAY 10, 2016
TROUBLE NO MORE: CRITICAL EDITION was launched on Amazon Kindle. The e-book contains contextualizing essays by Pearl McHaney, Jeffrey Leak, and John Holman, as well as an interview with William Walsh. These stories have been widely taught in high schools and universities and this critical edition and reader’s guide is perfect for the classroom.
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November 1, 2016
FULL TEXTS OF ICE POEMS AND TROUBLE NO MORE AT DIGITAL COMMONS.
Free downloads of the full texts of ICE POEMS and the 3rd edition of TROUBLE NO MORE are available at Digital Commons.
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