Here are Philip's scheduled events for 2009. The next upcoming event is in bold.
April 17: Dog Ear Books, Madison, Ga. 1:30-3 p.m. April 22: Townsend Prize Ceremonies. 6 p.m. Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta. April 27: UGA poetry class of Dr. Susan Rosenbaum. They are studying Philip's book Elegies for the Water and he will guest lecture. May 15: Marigold Festival, Winterville, Ga. 4 p.m. Old Firehouse. Keynote writer. June 19: Georgia Author of the Year Awards. Kennesaw State University Center on Busbee Pkwy in Kennesaw, Georgia. Aug. 28-29: Suwanee Festival of Books, Suwanee, Ga. Sept. 1: Publication day for The Flower Seeker Sept. 4-5: Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, Ga. Sept. 11: "Shoals of Time" book launch party and fund raiser for the Georgia River Network and the Ogeechee Riverkeeper. At the historic Ogeechee River Mill, Mayfield, Georgia. Bring a picnic lunch, enjoy paddling the Ogeechee River, tour the historic grist mill in the heart of Bartram Country. Registration, directions, and more on the Georgia River Network website. Sept. 24: Exhibit and Readings at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, Ga.. Philip reads from The Flower Seeker and Dorinda Dallmeyer from Bartram's Living Legacy. Philip Juras paintings on exhibit from September 24 until October 16. Oct. 11: Ocmulgee Audubon Society regular meeting, Macon, Ga. Philip and Dorinda to speak and read here, too, along with artist Philip Juras, whose paintings tie together these two new books on Bartram. Oct. 13-14: Georgia Review celebration of life of Raymond Andrews. Athens, Ga. Venues to come. Oct. 22-23: Georgia Literary Festival, Statesboro, Ga. Philip will be a featured participant this year. Oct. 29: American Academy of Religion national meeting, Atlanta, Ga. Philip will be part of a panel in the afternoon and present a reading of his poetry in the evening. Nov. 9: Book party reading and reception at historic Wormsloe Plantation, Isle of Hope, Georgia. For both Bartram books. By invitation. March 4, 2011: Conference at the Jepson Center,Savannah, GA.
Philip Lee Williams’s latest book is the massive novel The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts, published in late 2011. His new novel, Emerson’s Brother, will be published in late spring 2012.
In 2011, the University of Georgia Press published a new edition of Williams's award-winning Civil War novel, A Distant Flame. This novel originally published by St. Martin's in 2004, was winner of the Michael Shaara Prize, given to the best single Civil War novel published in the United States the previous year.
Williams’s much-praised book-length poem, The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram, came out in the fall of 2010. It was named Book of the Year by the national literary journal Books and Culture and won Williams his fourth Georgia Author of the Year Award.
All of Williams’s books are for sale at numerous online outlets and at many bookstores around the world. In addition, his works are in hundreds of libraries around the globe.
Symphony No. 17: Tenebrae
This symphony is subtitled "Tenebrae," which is a religious service in the Christian church but literally means "shadows" or "darkness" in Latin. It is a quiet, contemplative symphony, a single movement for full orchestra. (29'48")
Symphony No. 18: For the Civil Rights Martyrs
This work is subtitled "For the Civil Rights Martyrs" and is in memory of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 while working for Civil Rights. It is also in memory of all who died in the struggle. It is in two movements, "The Lynching" and "Souls."
One: The Lynching (15'25")
Two: Souls (14'25")
Symphony No. 17: Tenebrae
This symphony is subtitled "Tenebrae," which is a religious service in the Christian church but literally means "shadows" or "darkness" in Latin. It is a quiet, contemplative symphony, a single movement for full orchestra. (29'48")
Symphony No. 18: For the Civil Rights Martyrs
This work is subtitled "For the Civil Rights Martyrs" and is in memory of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 while working for Civil Rights. It is also in memory of all who died in the struggle. It is in two movements, "The Lynching" and "Souls."
One: The Lynching (15'25")
Two: Souls (14'25")
