published works
Bombingham
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he first experienced the fury of violence, on the streets of Birmingham, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Bombingham was named a Washington Post Best Book, won the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction and was a Finalist for the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award.
Trouble No More
Release Date: January 2006
The second edition of Anthony Grooms’ award-winning collection of short stories. Trouble No More, set throughout the American South, presents stories about history, politics, class, race, childhood, and life. These stories feature the personal and public trials of the African-American middle class.
Trouble No More won the Lillian Smith Prize for Fiction and was named the All Georgia Reads Book for 2006.
The Vain Conversation
Release date to be announced.
