Alice Adams

Maya Angelou

Daphne Athas

Ellyn Bache

Doris Betts

Jerry Bledsoe

Lillian Jackson Braun

Sue Ellen Bridgers

Poppy Z. Brite

Linda Beatrice Brown

Lisa Cantrell

Orson Scott Card

Fred Chappell

Patricia Cornwell

Elizabeth Cox

Jeffery Deaver

Sarah Dessen

Jude Deveraux

Pamela Duncan

Pam Durban

Charles Edward Eaton

Clyde Edgerton

John Ehle

Inglis Fletcher

Candace Flynt

Charles Frazier

Kaye Gibbons

Marrianne Gingher

Allan Gurganus

O. Henry—William Sydney Porter

Lynne Hinton

Robert Inman

Jan Karon

Randall Kenan

Michael Malone

Doug Marlette

Margaret Maron

Jill McCorkle

Sharyn McCrumb

Carson McCullers

Tim McLaurin

Joan Medlicott

Robert Morgan

Katy Munger

Lawrence Naumoff

Michael Parker

David Payne

T. R. Pearson

Cathy Pickens

Reynolds Price

Kathy Reichs

Ann B. Ross

Sean Rowe

Robert Ruark

Louis D. Rubin Jr. (non-fiction)

Carl Sandburg

Bland Simpson

Lee Smith

Nicholas Sparks

Elizabeth Spencer

Patricia Sprinkle

William Styron

Peter Taylor

Anne Tyler

Timothy Tyson

Daniel Wallace

Richard Walser (non-fiction)

Ashley Warlick

Manly Wellman

John Welter

Robert Whitlow