 Lillian E. Smith |
The Lillian E. Smith Foundation, Inc. was established to honor the memory of Lillian E. Smith, one of this country's eminent writers. Map to the LES Center A visual survey of the LES Center's buildings and ruins of the camp. |
| The Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts The
mission of The Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts is to offer a place where gifted creative
artists and scholars in various disciplines may find the conditions of quiet solitude and privacy
in which to pursue their work in the mountains of North East Georgia.
Applications for the summer of 2009 are now being taken. Residencies open mid May and close mid August. Click here for Residence application form in Adobe PDF format. |
Southern Literary Trail
Lillian Smith's home site joins a distinguised group of southern writer's home sites to form a trail. March 2009 opening set.
2008 Lillian Smith Books Awards to be presented at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, Sunday, August 31, 2008 The Lillian Smith Award was established by the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Council shortly after the death of the Georgia author in 1966. The award is presented annually to authors whose books are outstanding creative achievements which demonstrate through literary merit and moral vision an honest representation of the South, its people, its problems, and its promises. In 2004, the Southern Regional council entered into a partnership with the University of Georgia Libraries, which now administers the awards. In 2007, the Georgia Center for the Book joined the partnership as a co-sponsor to help the awards reach a wider audience. University of Georgia 's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library The 2007 winners of the Lillian Smith Award were Natasha Trethewey for Native Guard, a book of poetry which also won the Pulitzer Prize, and Matthew D. Lassiter for The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South. Trethewey is an associate professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, and Lassiter is assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan. |
| Links to more Lillian E. Smith information and other artist's pages JANISSE RAY Workshop FRANK X WALKER Workshop Watercourse- simultaneous courses in Watercolor & Photography were offered by Ellen and Don Elmes, June 5th thru June 8th 2008. |
Laurel Falls Camp for Girls
The memory of Laurel Falls Camp for Girls, Rabun County, North Georgia, which was directed by Lilllian Smith, continues to hold a
special place in the hearts of the many woman who came to the mountains as young women in the
1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and enjoyed the time they spent at the camp.
Miss Lil's Camp the movie by Suzanne Niedland and Anberin Pasha has won a number of film festival awards in the past year and was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival. Public Braiodcasting slected it for national distribtuion. Georgia PBS has aired it several times recently. Visit their site and find out more about this evocative film and it's production. |
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Joan Ross Sorkin's opera version of STRANGE FRUIT, based on Lillian Smith's best selling novel, had it's premiere performance, June 15th, 2007 at 8:00 pm and June 17th at 2:00 pm, by the Longleaf Opera company in the new performing arts center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
 Interior Ester Cottage |  Common Room |