Paul Wilborn
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Paul Wilborn

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A native of Tampa, Paul Wilborn collected multiple awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors during a journalism career that included stints at the Tampa Tribune, The St. Petersburg Times, and the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won the Green Eyeshade Award from the Atlanta Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the South’s top writing prize. Based on a selection of his writing, Wilborn was chosen for the Paul Hansel Award, Florida’s top journalism prize. He was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

As a journalist, Paul covered crime and courts, along with major national and international stories.

His plays have been produced at Stageworks, Off-Center Theater, Radio Theater Project and the University of Michigan.

A pianist and singer, he has led several bands including Paul Wilborn and the Pop Tarts and Blue Roses. He produced the long-running American Songbook Series at American Stage.

In the 1980s, Wilborn was a founding member of Ybor City’s Artists and Writers Group, which created multiple themed art and music events in Tampa’s historic district. He is the descendant of Sicilian immigrants who came to Tampa at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Cigar City: Tales From a 1980s Creative Ghetto is Wilborn’s debut short story collection. The book won the Gold Medal for Fiction in the 2019 Florida Book Awards. His debut novel, Florida Hustle, won a Kirkus star and was named one of the 100 Best Indie Books of 2022. His latest novel, The Everlasting Life of Charlie Wall, won a 5-star review from IndieReader.

Wilborn is executive director of the Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College and lives in Saint Petersburg with his wife, the film actor Eugenie Bondurant.
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