FORUM - Summer 2011

Featuring Winners of the Florida Book Awards

Meet some of the best writers in Florida and savor samples of their work from this year’s Florida Book Awards and Lifetime Writing Award competitions. Also, enjoy our “Bridging Cultures” and “Favorite Florida Place” columns.

Some highlights:

A Repository for Dreams
Margaret Ross Tolbert—author, artist, and adventurer—explores the magic of Florida’s springs.

A Passionate Voice for Florida
Carl Hiaasen, writer of wacky “Florida noir” novels and hard-hitting newspaper columns, receives the Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing.

Bridging Cultures
A Chinese-Floridian describes his cultural odyssey.

My Favorite Florida Place
Trekking through the history of Florida’s Garden of Eden.

Including excerpts from:

The Trouble with Panthers, by William Culyer Hall

Seminole Voices: Reflections on their Changing Society, by Julian M. Pleasants and Harry A. Kersey

Cypress Gardens: America’s Tropical Wonderland, by Lu Vickers

Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Anna Lillios

Randy Wayne White’s Ultimate Tarpon Book, by Randy Wayne White and Carlene Fredericka Brennen

Paradise Screwed, by Carl Hiaasen

Cookie & Me, by Mary Jane Ryals