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Former ACETA president Harry Moore’s poetry collection We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner has been chosen as 2024 Book of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. Harry, a lifetime ACETA member, taught English in Alabama community colleges for four decades. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Cassandra, in Decatur. More at harryvmoore.com.

• Former Alabama community college professor, Harry Moore, will release a new collection of poetry this July. 
• Follow the link for more information:  We the People:  Confessions of a Caucasion Southerner

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The award is named for the late Dr. Eugene Current-Garcia, who, in a distinguished academic career spanning five decades, mostly at Auburn University, published six books and dozens of articles and reviews on the short story genre and Old Southwest humor and also founded and co-edited the Southern Humanities Review.

2025 Dr. Jeffrey Melton
2024 Dr. Eric Smith
2023 Kieran Quinlan
2022 Heather White
2021 Alan Gribben
2020 Robert Evans
2019 Chris Metress
2018 David Cowart
2017 Kirk Curnutt
2016 Frye Gaillard
2015 Eric Sterling
2014 Wayne Flint
2013 Sue Brannan Walker
2012 William A. Ulmer
2011 David Sauer
2010 Ralph Voss
2009 John Hafner
2008 Norman McMillan
2007 Elaine Hughes
2006 Nancy Anderson
2005 Robert W. Halli, Jr.
2004 Benjamin Buford Williams
2003 J. William Hutchings
2002 Trudier Harris
2001 Bert Hitchcock
2000 Don Noble
1999 Philip Beidler
1998 Claudia Durst Johnson