10th Annual Books Along the Teche Literary Festival
on April 10 – 11, 2026

Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of twelve books, including the bestsellers Ava’s Man and All Over but the Shoutin’, will be the 2026 Great Southern Writer. Bragg is widely regarded as one of the South’s greatest storytellers. His vivid, soulful writing captures the struggles and strength of Southern life, and his work has graced the pages of The New York TimesSouthern Living, and Garden & Gun. Currently, he shares his craft as a professor at the University of Alabama.  


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