Laura Hunter Bio

Laura Hunter Bio

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Experience

Hunter has been writing professionally since 1994. She was raised in Alabama hill country and now lives near Tuscaloosa. She writes about the South and its unrepresented peoples, the underdog and how he manages to survive.

She has published sixteen award-winning short stories and nine poems, in addition to numerous articles published through different media outlets.

Beloved Mother, her first award-winning novel, was released April 1, 2019. It received eleven awards during its first year of publication, as well as 2019 Grand Prize for Fiction Award, placing over novels from 50 states and 30 countries.

She has written a collection of fictional short stories Southern Voices focused on a coal mining community called Copeland’s Crossing, Alabama. It appeared in print August 2020 and received recognition for regional literature.

Her most recent novel Summer of No Rain was released February 2022 and has been blocked from several school systems in Florida.

Genres

  • Southern Fiction
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Non-fiction Articles
  • Poetry
  • Memoir

Awards

  • Druid Arts Council Literary Arts Award, Tuscaloosa Co, 2022 and 2023
  • Summer of No Rain:
  • Reviewers Choice Award Bronze
  • Finalist in American Fiction Awards 2024
  • Southern Voices:
  • “Moon Shadows Dancing” – Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Award
  • “A Widow’s Mite” – Patricia Boatner Award; Tennessee Mountain Writers
  • “She (Carter’s Woman)” – H E Francis Award; University of Alabama, Huntsville
  • “She” – Harriet Arnow Award for Short Stories – Appalachian Writers Association
  • “Waiting for the Pink” – Hackney Award; Birmingham Southern College
  • “A Mite Sorry” – Chattanooga Writers Guild
  • “Boogollies, Lace Curtains and a Dog in the House” (Excerpt) – Birmingham Arts Journal
  • “Moon Shadows Dancing” – Marrs Field Journal; University of Alabama
  • “Fishtales Told to a Crow Mid-Spring” – Belles’ Letters, Livingston Press
  • INDIE Regional Literature, First Place
  • Beloved Mother:
  • 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Award
  •  – Fiction Grand Prize and
  •  – First Place Winner
  •  – First Novel (over 90,000 words)
  • Grand Prize Winner
  • 2019 American Fiction Awards
  • – Best New Fiction and
  • – Finalist – Best Cover Design
  • 2019 Literary Titan Book Award
  •  – Literary Titan Silver Book Award
  • 2019 Foreword INDIES Award
  •  – General Adult Fiction (Finalist) and
  • – General Historical Fiction (Finalist) and
  • – General Historical Fiction Bronze Award (June 17, 2020)
  • 2020 Independent Press Award, Gabby Book Awards
  • – Distinguished Favorite, New Fiction (July 5, 2020)
  • 14th National INDIE Excellence Award
  • – New Fiction (July 8, 2020)
  • Selected to be included in Sarah Kloth’s Shelf Unbound (August 2020)
  • https://youtube/Nqje2ehyXjI Beloved Mother Video

Short Stories Published and Publishers

  • “A Mite Sorry” – Chattanooga Writers Guild
  • “Boogollies, Lace Curtains and a Dog in the House” (Excerpt) – Birmingham Arts Journal
  • “Moon Shadows Dancing” – Marrs Field Journal; University of Alabama
  • “Fishtales Told to a Crow Mid-Spring” – Belles’ Letters, Livingston Press
  • “A Child Handed Down” – Explorations, University of Alaska
  • “The Prodigal” – Carve Magazine (online)
  • “Waiting for the Pink” – Climbing Mt. Cheaha; Livingston Press
  • “She” – ALALITCOM
  • “Carter’s Woman” – Seven Hills Magazine
  • “Martha Louise’s Story” – Longleaf Style Magazine
  • “Letter from Vicksburg” – Longleaf Style Magazine
  • “Hard as a Rock” – Pithead Chapel (online)
  • “The Uncertainty of Light” – Birmingham Arts Journal
  • “That Which Passes” – Belles’ Letters 2, Livingston Press
  • “The Nine O’clock News” – 53 Word Press (online)

Memoir Publications

  • “As Luck Would Have It” – Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology
  • “A Southern Gentle Man” (Excerpt) – Gritty Southern Father Anthology

Short Story Awards

  • “Waiting for the Pink” – Hackney Award; Birmingham Southern College
  • “Moon Shadows Dancing” – Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Award
  • “She” – H E Francis Award; UA Huntsville
  • “She” – Harriet Arnow Award for Short Stories – Appalachian Writers Association
  • “A Widow’s Mite” – Patricia Boatner Award; Tennessee Mountain Writers

Poetry Publications and Publishers

  • “Iris in Season” – Marrs Field Journal; University of Alabama; Gritty South, Mother Anthology
  • “Faith” – Beyond Doggerel
  • “Beatrice” – The New Southerner (online)
  • “A Mother to her Young” – Ordinary and Sacred as Blood

Poetry Award

“Mortality Moved in Last May” – Hackney Award, Birmingham Southern College

Nonfiction Publications and Publishers

  • “She Hung her Mop Outside to Dry” – MOTIF Anthology
  • “Testing the Water” – Longleaf Style Magazine
  • “Taking Quilting to another Level” – Prime Lifestyle Magazine
  • “Hidden Heroines” (Book Review) – United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • “In God’s Hands” – Anthology 17: Writers of Grace

eBooks

  • Beloved Mother
  • Summer of No Rain

Videos

  • #youtube
  • #lessonswithlaura
  • #author

Coming Soon

  • The Importance of Being Ip (working title)
  • A Southern Gentle Man: A Biography