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Laura StillKnoxville poet and playwright Laura Still will be exploring two recent literary endeavors at the Thursday, March 4 meeting of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild.

Still's appearance was rescheduled from the January slot due to inclement weather.

Newsletter to be delivered electronically

Beginning with the March/April 2010 issue, the Guild's newsletter The East Tennessee Writer, will be delivered in electronic version only. Make sure your e-mail address is up-to-date. If you are unsure, send an e-mail to kwgmembers@gmail.com. Be sure to include your full name in the e-mail as well as the e-mail address you want the newsletter sent to.

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Winners of the 2009 Guild Contest!

Listen to the podcast of the winners reading from their works: http://blogs.knoxlib.org. Click on "Download podcast here." Many thanks to Knox County Public Library for making this podcast possible.

The Knoxville Writers’ Guild's annual literary competitions are open to residents of Tennessee . More than $1,200 in prizes will be distributed to the 2009 contest winners, divided among those who placed highest in four award categories: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction and Young Writers’ Poetry.

The KWG Award for Fiction is in memory of the late Knoxville author, Leslie Garrett. Winners: Marsha Brantley, first prize for The Likes of Her; Pamela Schoenewaldt, second prize for Back then, in Tijuana ; Jennifer Barton, third prize for Grits Ain’t Groceries.

The KWG Award for Poetry is in memory of Libba Moore Gray, the noted local author, actress and educator. Winners: Jane Sasser, first prize for Ascending; Connie Jordan Green, second prize for Regret Comes to Tea, Spends the Night; Arthur Stewart, third prize for Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus.

The KWG Creative Non-Fiction Award's topic this year was "Change.” Winners: L. Mahayla Smith, first prize for Sunday Best; Brooks Clark, second prize for One More Year.

The Young Writers’ Poetry Prize involves the participation of high school students in the Greater Knoxville Area of East Tennessee. Winners: Emily Connatser ( Oak Ridge High School ), first prize for Rhythm; Patricia Garland ( Oak Ridge High School ), second prize for Lost Boys; Jessica Jordan (Maryville High School), third prize for Locomotive.

The Knoxville Writers’ Guild offers monthly meetings, writers’ groups and periodic workshops for local writers. It receives the support of WUOT 91.9 FM.

 

Bleeding Hearts  photo by  Phil Lowe.The Knoxville Writers' Guild Poetry Group is delighted to announce their first chapbook Bleeding Hearts: A Sampling of Poems from the Poetry Workshop of the Knoxville Writers' Guild published by Tellico Books, owned by Guild member Bob Cumming. Edited by Cathy Kodra and Scott Savage, this 72 page anthology contains 48 poems written by 16 Guild members of the poetry group within the Guild. The book is designed by Beto Cumming, also a Guild member.

Scott Savage writes in the Preface about the group: "And just as the alchemy of earth is plowing, weeding, and watering, ours is the alchemy of words--deleting, inserting, and arranging--until something grows as beautiful as a stem of red flowers."

The poets in Bleeding Hearts include: Cathy Kodra, Beto Cumming, Bob Cumming, Cat D'Arcy, Peggy Douglas, Judith Duvall, Ruth Faulkner Grubbs, Vickie M. Jordan, Austin Kodra, Phil Lowe, John C. Mannone, Jo Ann Pantanizopoulos, Scott Savage, Jenny Weisent, J.A. Wilkins, Martha Davies Yarnell.

This anthology can be purchased from any of the published poets in Bleeding Hearts and Carpe Librum Booksellers at 5113A Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. It is also available for purchase online from tellicobooks.com soon. Guild members: $10. Non-members: $12.

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NOTE: The Guild is a non-profit organization. To support writers, we have kept our membership fees low and unchanged for over 10 years. However, due to economic times, the Guild is struggling to break even in 2009. Any donations to the work of the Guild are greatly appreciated. $10. $20. $30. $50. $100. $150. $200.

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We have fun! Jane, Jim, and Gene at the Holiday Extravaganza selling books!--Speakers' Bureau: Are you looking for a speaker for your club, community group, or school program? Search the list of 16 speakers or select a particular category such as Poetry, Nonfiction, Songwriting, Publishing, Grammar for Grownups, or Regional Writing and choose a writer with expertise in that category. Speakers selected to represent the Knoxville Writers Guild are not paid by the Guild, but have agreed to donate 10% of all honoraria, compensation and book sales to the KWG. Click here for more information...

Note: The Peter Taylor Prize competition is on a one-year hiatus. Please check back in January of 2009 for details about our next competition, and watch for our latest prize-winning book, to be released in the fall of 2008. John McLaughlin's winning novel Run in the Fam'ly wins again: Texas Institute of Letters, for Best First Novel, and Best Novel overall of 2007.

--Career Achievement Awards and Guild Contest winners:

2002: Carson Brewer
2003: George Scarbrough
2004: Wilma Dykeman
2005: Jon Manchip White

2006: Jeff Daniel Marion
2008: David Hunter

--Members Write and Shine! News of activities, awards, honors, and kudos!

--Writers in the University of Tennessee Library schedule.

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