Julia Taylor Ebel

Author of Books and Poetry Celebrating Nature, Heritage and Cultural History

Addie Clawson: Appalachian Mail Carrier, 2003
• Willie Parker Peace History Book Award (NC Society of Historians)
• Arts Council Central Piedmont Regional Artist Hub Grant, 2002
• Used in educational programs at the Smithsonian Nation Postal Museum
• Resultant article on Addie Clawson in Our State, March 2007

Dresses, Dreams and Beadwood Leaves (2009)
• Poetry Book of the Year Award, 2009
• Runner up for the Linda Flowers Price, NC Humanities Council
• Review on NC Poet Laureate website and blog for December 9, 2008 http://ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
• Review in Carolina Mountain Living, Winter/Holidays 2008

Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns, as Told by Orville Hicks (2009)
• Aesop Accolade, 2009, American Folklore Society, http://www.afsnet.org/sections/children/
• Clark Cox Historical fiction Award, 2009 (NC Society of Historians)
• Review in Our State, August 2009
• Review in Appalachian Heritage
• Review in Asheville Citizen-Times, April 2009
• Review in Carolina Mountain Living, Spring 2009
• Review essay in North Carolina Folklore Journal, Spring-Summer 2009, http://paws.wcu.edu/ncfj/ncfj561.pdf
• Review essay in Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, November 10, 2009, http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=942

Orville Hicks: Mountain Stories, Mountain Roots (2005)
• Willie Parker Peace History Book Award, 2006 (NC Society of Historians)
• Review in Our State, April 2006
• Review Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2006
• Review essay North Carolina Folklore Journal, Spring-Summer 2009, http://paws.wcu.edu/ncfj/ncfj561.pdf
• Review (with Jack Tales) in Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, November 10, 2009, http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=942
• Review essays forthcoming in Appalachian Journal and Mountain Times

The Picture Man (2009)
• Clark Cox Historical fiction Award, 2009 (NC Society of Historians)
• Review in Our State, December 2009
• Review in Asheville Citizen-Times, April 2009;
• Review in Carolina Mountain Living, Spring 2009

Walking Ribbon (2005)
• Clark Cox Historical fiction Award (NC Society of Historians)
• Paul Green, Multi-Media Award (NC Society of Historians)

Julia Taylor Ebel
• Barringer Award of Excellence, 2009, for preservation of North Carolina history, North Carolina Society of Historians
• Selected to be The Distinguished Author for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, 2010