• Coming Soon: Athens Writes: An Athens, Georgia Literary Memoir by Donny Bailey Seagraves

    From the Beginning

    On any given day in Athens, Georgia, works of art swirl across canvases, musical notes float on the air and words rise above the classic city, forming a cloud of creativity.

    My hometown of Athens, Georgia, long-known as an art and music town, also is a literary town filled with talented natives who have a way with words, writers who came to the University of Georgia for an education or a job and stayed, and authors of all genres passing through to speak at an event or teach a workshop.

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  • Cooking With Annie D: Southern Recipes Seasoned With Seagraves and Pettyjohn Family History and Gone From These Woods, two books by author Donny Bailey Seagraves of Athens, Georgia.

    Featured Books

    Cooking With Annie D: Southern Recipes Seasoned With Seagraves and Pettyjohn Family History is a cookbook for cooks of all ages, especially those who love Southern foods. Buy a copy of Cooking With Annie D here or read more about this book here. Gone From These Woods is a children's middle-grade novel set in the North Georgia woods near the towns of Winterville and Athens, Georgia. Go here to buy a paperback copy of Gone From These Woods or here to buy an ebook. For more information about GFTW, visit this page.

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  • Author Donny Bailey Seagraves

    Donny Bailey Seagraves, an American author of books for children and adults, is a native of Athens, Georgia. For many years, she lived in the nearby small town of Winterville, the setting of her debut novel, Gone From These Woods, published by Penguin Random House. Donny's latest book is Cooking With Annie D: Southern Recipes Seasoned with Seagraves and Pettyjohn Family History, published by Coile Grove Press.

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