Join us in Mobile!

We’ll be discussing:

• Southern politics: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
• The ecology, economy and evolving culture of the Gulf Coast, a place affectionately called the "Redneck Riviera."
• Craft-oriented discussions on opinion journalism.
• What’s drawing international corporations ThyssenKrupp, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Airbus and others to Alabama?
• The state of voting rights four decades after passage of the Voting Rights Act and civil rights movement.
• Southern storytellers and editorial writing.
• Show-and-tell: A slideshow of your favorite work of the past year.
• Nuts & bolts: You’ve got problems, we’ll talk solutions.

PLUS: The white sand beaches of Gulf Shores are about an hour’s drive away. The Battleship USS Alabama. The Bellingrath Gardens and Home. The Dauphin Island Estuarium.