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The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, works to cultivate our state’s literary culture. We do that through supporting writers at all stages. We encourage our young writers to find their creative voice through the Father Goose Poetry Festival for Kids!–and through our Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards. We support the work of our state’s literary community through our Alabama Authors Directory, First Draft magazine, and other programming and opportunities for writers across the state. And we celebrate our state’s rich literary legacy through the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. We are, above all, a community of writers united by our desire to advance the literary arts in Alabama. If that describes you — join us! There are many ways to get involved.

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Confessions of an Ignorant Traveler

March 26, 2024|

Confessions of an Ignorant Traveler: A Nomad’s Journey By Bob Corley I.B. Dog Publishing, 2022 Paperback: $9.25 Genre: Travel Memoir Reviewed by Edward Journey Bob Corley’s entertaining memoir, Confessions of an Ignorant Traveler: A Nomad’s Journey, might also be subtitled “Been There, Missed That.” Inspired by a journal the author kept during a free-wheeling backpacking trip to Europe and Israel in 1971-72 as a newly discharged army veteran, the early pages of the book detail all that Corley missed by not studying up on his itinerary before he got there. At one point, he rhapsodizes about the coastline of Greece, only to admit that “Sadly, no toe from either foot dipped into the cool … crystal-clear waters of Greece.” In Athens, he decides to “wander around” the Acropolis but won’t pay to go in. His 21-year-old self writes, “I figure I can feel history as well from the outside (free) as from the inside (cost).”  Simply put, he wastes Greece. The inauspicious beginning of the trip is in Amsterdam, that liberal and permissive mecca sought by young [...]

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