The Fellowship of Southern Writers is a literary organization founded in 1987 at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The FSW was formed by 26 distinguished Southern authors, writers and other literary luminaries. The group meets in every odd-numbered year, usually during the Chattanooga Arts & Education Council's Conference on Southern Literature.

Charter Members

• A.R. Ammons
• Cleanth Brooks
• Fred Chappell
• George Core
• James Dickey
• Ralph Ellison
• Horton Foote
• Shelby Foote
• John Hope Franklin
• Ernest J. Gaines
• George Garrett
• Blyden Jackson
• Madison Jones
• Andrew Lytle
• Walker Percy
• Reynolds Price
• Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
• Mary Lee Settle
• Lewis P. Simpson
• Elizabeth Spencer
• William Styron
• Walter Sullivan
• Peter Taylor
• Robert Penn Warren
• Eudora Welty
• C. Vann Woodward

Elected Members

• Wendell Berry (1990)
• Josephine (Ellen Douglas) Haxton (1990)
• C. Eric Lincoln (1990)
• Romulus Linney (1990)
• Lee Smith (1993)
• Monroe Spears (1993)
• Charles Wright (1993)
• Doris Betts (1995)
• Marsha Norman (1995)
• James Applewhite (1997)
• Richard Bausch (1997)
• Clyde Edgerton (1997)
• Gail Godwin (1997)
• William Hoffman (1997)
• Donald Justice (1997)
• Dave Smith (1997)
• Joseph Blotner (2001)
• Allan Gurganus (2001)
• Beth Henley (2001)
• Josephine Humphreys (2001)
• Bobbie Ann Mason (2001)
• Henry Taylor (2001)
• Madison Smartt Bell (2003)
• Kaye Gibbons (2003)
• Barry Hannah (2003)
• Yusef Komunyakaa (2003)
• Jill McCorkle (2003)
• John Shelton Reed (2003)
• Ellen Bryant Voigt (2003)
• Allen Wier (2003)
• Larry Brown (2005) – Posthumous, Brown died before he was able to take his seat
• Percival Everett (2005)
• Robert Morgan (2005)
• Lewis Nordan (2005)
• Sam Pickering (2005)
• Wyatt Prunty (2005)

Awards and Honors Given

• The Hillsdale Prize for Fiction
• The Hanes Prize for Poetry
• The Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
• The Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama
• The Cecil Woods, Jr. Prize for Non-Fiction
• The Fellowship's New Writing Award for Fiction
• The James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South
• The Fellowship's New Award for Poetry
• The Cleanth Brooks Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Southern Letters

See also

• American Literature
• Southern literature
• US South

External links

• Website
• Audio Interview with Larry Brown - RealAudio
• Audio Interviews with James Dickey - RealAudio
• Audio Interviews with Gail Godwin - RealAudio
• Audio Interview with Allan Gurganus - RealAudio
• Audio Interview with Barry Hannah - RealAudio
• Audio Interview with Mary Lee Settle - RealAudio
• Dave Smith Reads His Poetry - RealAudio
• Audio Interview with Lee Smith - RealAudio
• Audio Interviews with William Styron - RealAudio