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2012 Townsend Awards

The 2012 Townsend Award honors the best fiction writing by Georgia authors over the last two years. The nominees for 2012 are Daniel Black, Lynn Cullen, Ann Hite, Joshilyn Jackson, Collin Kelley, Thomas Mullen, Andrew Plattner, Josh Russell, Joseph Skibell and Amanda Kyle Williams. The winner will be announced at the event, and it is expected many of the nominees will attend.

This event is sponsored by the Southern Academy for Literary Arts at Georgia Perimeter College, and tickets are $40 per person which includes admission to Atlanta Botanical Garden after 5 pm, a book signing at 6:30, a buffet reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar at 7 followed by the awards ceremony with keynote speaker Anne Beattie beginning at 7:30 pm. To purchase tickets, and for more details, go to https://giving.gpc.edu/townsend. The deadline is April 20.

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