Alabama Colloquium

On the evening of December 2, at the Alys Stephens Center, the Alabama Humanities Alliance will honor Possum Trot native and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg as a 2024 Alabama Humanities Fellow — the highest humanities honor in the state. The event features a conversation between Bragg and his fellow honoree this year, humorist and Birmingham native Roy Wood Jr.

Rick Bragg has long been lauded as one of the most distinct, illustrative storytellers in American literature. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man, and The Prince of Frogtown. He has also won awards for his journalism at newspapers from The Jacksonville (Ala.) News and The Anniston Star to the Birmingham News and the New York Times. For the past two decades, Bragg has served as the Clarence Cason Professor of Writing at the University of Alabama.

Proceeds from this event benefit the Alabama Humanities Alliance, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that offers public humanities programs and grant opportunities statewide — bringing Alabamians together through our shared history, literature, storytelling, arts, and more.