Alan Flurry is an Athens, Georgia-based writer.
Media
Athens Resident Alan Flurry’s New Play Tackles Climate Change
By Pete McCommons
May 3, 2023
Alan Flurry’s TV Show Elevates the Conversation
By Matt Shedd
October 23, 2013
The 10 Best Books We Read in 2013 (So Far)
By Charles McNair
July 2, 2013 | 1:27pm
Writer, producer, director: The talented Mr. Flurry
By Brad Mannion
June 13, 2013
WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV win Georgia Association of Broadcasters Awards
By UGA News Services
June 10, 2013
Cansville by Alan Flurry — Putting on a show
By Charles McNair
June 4, 2013
Sculpting in Time by Andrey Tarkovsky — A simple set of instructions
By Alan Flurry
January 2, 2013
Alan Flurry Q&A — His New Novel, Literature and the Writing Life
by Flagpole
September 5, 2012
Books
Cansville
Cansville, by Alan Flurry, is a short novel about Toby Alameda, creative director of the Cansville Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, as he sets about to reconstruct the story of his boyhood home and the extended family that had lived there. The structure itself had been expanded from a modest farmhouse where his family took in relatives during the Great Depression. By the time the young Toby was practicing archery in his upstairs bedroom two generations later, the great emptied house had so grown into his being that he hardly gave it any thought. Until he tried to write about it.
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Selected short pieces:
Metamorfossi, published by Showbear Family Circus
Century 2.1, published in Azure Literary Journal
Stage play, PRAYING TO IMAGINARY GODS, or THE INEVITABLE DEIGN, published by Fleas on the Dog
What does green mean?
Boosterism beyond critique
The irony about that headline is that athletic boosters, who actively grease the wheels if not the palms, are the most willing and ready to weigh-in and express disapproval if not remedies. Cue the irony and the facts we hate. One thing – and reader, there are many – that you pick up from working …
Regression to the mean
Advertising can be rude, as well as prophetic. All the clean coal and fossil fuel wishcasting propaganda (Beyond Petroleum?) leads to complacency, inefficiency, more SUVs – at least in one country – and hence greater vulnerability, whereas crisis framing of responding to climate change leads to hard-won improvements. To wit: [In June 2026] for the …
The Inverse World Cup
Demonstration of the critical importance of soft power embodied in a ludicrous whimper (not a Tragically Hip song title, amazingly enough). What now? What next? Dr. K brings the heat light: [Europeans’] willingness to de-Americanize partly reflects recognition that reconciliation is hopeless: Trump is who he is, and a nation that elected him twice simply …
About Alan
My professional resume includes executive communications, documentary film making, television interview show host, public events MC, and research journalism – writing about often complex but meaningful scholarly investigations and translating those findings and their significance for a broad public.
This unpacking reveals an authentic route to educating the public, giving voice to the values of clients as well as employees. I have engaged with experts – journalists, scholars, artists and politicians – in public fora that are shrinking in number but needed more than ever. Whether on stage, on camera, or behind the scenes, connection brings insights across the table and around the globe, to audiences and industries that businesses need.
Threaded throughout has been creative work, informed by the experiences as much as a guide for my roles in academic leadership, speechwriting, interviewing and thoughtful strategic communications advice and counsel. Novels, plays, scripts, music, all arrive as naturally as the answer to the question: do you want to take part in a research expedition to the Gulf Stream? Whether making a concert documentary about a UNESCO conference on the future of the lagoon in the context of climate change or making sure a new building dedication audience feels a bit more than they expected from the dais, getting to the heart of the story has mapped my trajectory for what is fundamentally a writer’s life in our present moment.
Alan Flurry has produced dozens of video interviews with visiting artists, scholars, and journalists. In November 2011, he traveled to Venice with the ARCO Chamber Orchestra from the Hodgson School of Music to create a documentary of their performance at the opera house La Fenice. The one-hour documentary ARCO in Venice aired on the Georgia Public Broadcasting affiliate WUGA-TV in the fall of 2012. In June 2013, ARCO in Venice received a Merit Award from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.
Flurry produced and directed the documentary short Art Rosenbaum, Mural in Progress, which premiered at the AthFest film festival in 2013 and Roma Amor, which premiered at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2014.
Flurry’s original feature screenplay for The Next Paris was an official selection of the 2019 Beverly Hills Film Festival. His full length feature screenplay American Anthem was a selection at the 2025 BHFF. Flurry is married to the artist and writer Amy Flurry.
