News

THE COLOR OF LOST ROOMS won the 19th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Prize for Poetry!

Look for Irene's poem "Ship Spies a Light" in a future issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine.

Leaving Gee's Bend named to Top Ten List of Alabama Books by Alabama Authors

Publisher's Weekly Children's Book News June 23 reported on Irene's visit to San Diego.

Leaving Gee's Bend made the 2011-12 Kentucky Bluegrass State Master List.

Leaving Gee's Bend listed: Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, 2011

Leaving Gee's Bend named a Crystal Kite finalist!
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Irene presented with amazing quilt by 6th grade enrichment students at Homewood Middle School. Thank you, students, teachers and parents!

Leaving Gee's Bend a finalist for SIBA Book Award.

Official announcement for Irene's second novel, coming, with illustrations by Stephanie Graegin in Fall 2012.

Author of LEAVING GEE’S BEND, Irene Latham’s DON’T FEED THE BOY in which a lonely 11-year old boy, born to a Zoo Director mom and elephant keeper dad who barely notice him amid all the other more exotic species, finds a new friend in the Bird Girl, and with her help, struggles to escape the confines of zoo life. To Nancy Mercado at Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children’s, by Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio

Irene's essay "The Art of Disobedience" accepted for Fall 2010 issue of Aura Literary Arts Review

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Wonderful gift from the Homewood Middle School 6th Grade Enrichment Class



Irene presenting Alabama Governor Bob Riley with a copy of LEAVING GEE'S BEND (August, 2010)



Irene Latham with Editor Jim Reed
Birmingham Arts Journal



Big Table Poets

Co-founded by Irene Latham and Suzanne Coker in May, 2002, this group meets every three weeks to read and critique each other's poetry.

Next meeting: TBA

Listen to the Big Table Poets on WBHM Tapestry