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JBL

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Food Glorious Food

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Shane Hinton

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:12:51 +0000

Shane Hinton is the author of three books: Pinkies (CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist), Radio Dark, and Other Shane Hintons (Florida Book Award Bronze Medalist). He is the editor of the anthology We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida, a fiction editor for Tampa Review, and he teaches writing at The University of Tampa.

Shane Hinton will be joining Word of South as part of the fiction panel of Florida Book Award winners!

Daniel Rivero

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:56:40 +0000

Daniel Rivero is an investigative reporter with WLRN Public Radio in Miami. His work has been featured in the Miami Herald, NPR, the Guardian, ABC News and other outlets. His first book, Just Freedom: Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle, was published in 2025 and won a Florida Book Award. Daniel will be joining Word [...]

Kati Schardl

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:21:56 +0000

Kati Schardl first heard the call of the wild as a scabby-kneed kid exploring Jackson County’s woods and waters in the Florida Panhandle. She learned her craft as a journalist in Tallahassee at the rabble-rousing independent daily newspaper the Florida Flambeau. For nigh on 20 years, she served as music columnist, theater critic and arts and features writer and editor at the Tallahassee Democrat. She has written for Local Palate, Tallahassee Magazine and Flamingo Magazine, among other publications. Kati recently earned an MFA in narrative non-fiction from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. She currently works as an editor for the Florida Senate’s bill drafting office and lives in Tallahassee with an ornery house panther named Bonnie Prince Charlie. When the world gets to be too much, Kati restores her soul in the cypress bogs of the Apalachicola National Forest and the salt marsh and pine flatwoods of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.

Kati Schardl will be joining us at Word of South in conversation with author Richard Powers.

Artis Henderson

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:17:06 +0000

Artis Henderson’s work has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, Reader’s Digest and Sierra, among others. Her first book, Unremarried Widow, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice named to more than 10 Best of the Year lists. Her second book, No Ordinary Bird, was named a best new book of 2025 by Oprah as well as People magazine. Artis has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a graduate degree from the Columbia School of Journalism and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She was a 2025 Fulbright-National Geographic Award recipient. A certified master naturalist and advanced open water diver, she splits her time between Florida and Australia.

Artis Henderson will be joining Word of South as part of the Florida Book Awards winners panel in the category of nonfiction.

Anonymous

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:52:43 +0000

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Mystery Guest

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:47:59 +0000

A special mystery guest will be joining Rhett DeVane and Paul Wilborn at out panel on humor in writing, Saturday April 25 at Word of South. [...]

Florida Standard Spirits

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McConnaughhay and Rudd

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