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?
Always headed here
With a president suffering from main character syndrome coupled with a steadily deteriorating mental state, so much ‘seems’ to be going on that keeping up with it in whole much less in part can itself feel maddening. Two days ago, he gives a televised exposition of just how adrift he is, boxed in by an …
Of straits and traps
What if war isn’t viable? And rather than being merely hopeful or any nod to a peacenik Shangri-La at last, what would remain in the balance – TBD comme on dit – is somehow assuring that the entire globe doesn’t become a failed state. That we don’t default to a Hobbesian existence on a planetary …
Preventive Incantation
It doesn’t matter how one feels* about AI as a technological problem. It is much more of a financial problem, a threat similar to others that preceded it but special in its own special way. Purveyors already know the limits of the technology but dangle the potential profits as unlimited. Because all the convenient confusion …
About Alan
Alan Flurry is an Athens, Georgia-based novelist, playwright, and musician. His stage play BAMIYAN TO BIRMINGHAM was included in the Sunday Shortlist readings by the Bechdel Group (NYC) in December 2021. TOO WONDERFUL FOR ANYBODY, Flurry’s new stage play about the climate crisis, had two staged readings in May 2023.
Director of communications for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, 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. Sponsored by UNESCO, the concert was part of a wider conference on the future of the city in the context of global climate change. 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.
