Jill McCorkle shares what she thinks is distinctive about the South, including humor, nostalgia, iced tea, and the fine art of storytelling. This is the keynote address of Georgia's 2006 Townsend Prize for Fiction. The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded biennially to the Georgia writer judged to have published the best work of fiction in the previous two years. The prize was founded in 1980 in honor of founding editor of Atlanta Magazine, Jim Townsend. Past recipients include respected Georgia authors Celestine Sibley, Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Ha Jin, and others. Books are brought to the attention of the judges through communication from publishers, agents, and in some cases authors themselves. The final nominees are then selected by The Chattahoochee Review.
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