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Bryan Charles speaks June 7
Bryan Charles,
"There's a Road to Everywhere," Speaks at June
KWG Meeting
By Scott Brooks
Novelist and memoir writer Bryan Charles , author of "There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From," (Grove Press, Open City Books), one of Library Journal's best nonfiction books of 2010, will speak to the Knoxville Writers Guild on Thursday, June 7.
The event, which will be open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Theater, at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Street in Fort Sanders. A $2 donation is requested at the door. The building is handicapped accessible. Additional parking is available at Redeemer Church of Knoxville, 1642 Highland Ave.
Novelist Michael Chabon called Charles' book "a sneakily disturbing, disarmingly profound, casually devastating memoir, taut and adept, that cracked me up even at its saddest moments, and broke my heart almost without my quite noticing."
Charles will talk at the upcoming KWG meeting about his life-changing journey from a small town in Michigan to the fall of the World Trade Center before landing in Knoxville. Charles will share his experiences and how it affects his creativity.
Charles grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and followed a wave of post-collegiate creative energy to New York City. His dreams of being a writer led him to a job at Morgan Stanley in the World Trade Center. But that dream changed on Sept. 11, 2001. After he escaped the attacks and the collapse of the towers, Charles quit his job to devote his time to writing. He got his master’s degree in fine arts from Brooklyn College in 2003.
His first novel, “Grab On To Me Tightly As If I Knew the Way” was published by Harper Collins in 2006. Then he set out to publish a definitive memoir about his experiences, including his escape from the twin towers on 9/11. The result of that effort is “There’s A Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From,” released in 2010.
“It’s a reluctant memoir,” he said. “It’s more than just about escaping the tragedy; it’s about a young person figuring out how to be a writer.”
Charles’ most recent journey has brought him to Knoxville, where his girlfriend, Karla Wozniak, teaches art at the University of Tennessee.
“I wondered how my writing would change outside the pressure cooker of New York City,” said Charles. He will share those insights with the audience in the June meeting of the Writers Guild.
But he adds, “It’s not a culture shock, and I’ve found a very creative energy here.”
Charles said he has been very impressed with the response to Writers Guild sessions here. “It’s very different from New York where you have to beg people to come. People seem genuinely interested here.”
More information about Charles’ work can be found by clicking here. Additional information about the Knoxville Writers’ Guild can be found on this website.
Purchase Your
Own Literary
Anthology!
The theme for this year’s anthology is “diversity.” Poems, essays, photographs, short stories, song lyrics, and even a novel chapter are represented. Contributors include Cynthia Markert, Connie Jordan Green , Brian Griffin, Marilyn Kallet, Linda Parsons Marion, Hector Qirko, and Jack Rentfro , among others.
To order copies of the book, please click here. Or, purchase the book at Union Avenue Books, 517 Union Avenue, in Knoxville or Southland Books, 801 East Broadway, in Maryville. To read the full story please click here.
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Writing
Groups for you!
Join others who share your interest in writing! Click on the group's name to read more about them. If you want to start a writing group not listed, e-mail Terry Shaw.
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-- Disc Exchange on Chapman Highway
--The Stir Fry Cafe, both locations.
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You Can Still Enter 2012
KWG Literary Contests!
Enter KWG Literary Contests!
Join a longstanding East Tennessee literary tradition and enter the 2012 KWG Literary Contests! You can now begin submitting entries in six categories. The deadline for entries is midnight May 31.
The contests are:
The KWG Award for Fiction
(In memory of the late Knoxville author, Leslie Garrett).
The KWG Award for Poetry
(In memory of Libba Moore Gray).
The KWG Award for Creative Nonfiction
The Young Writers' Poetry Prize. (Open to all high school students in the Greater Knoxville Area of East Tennessee, grades 9-12.)
KWG Award for Novel Excerpts
KWG Award for One Act Play/ Script
Please click here to read the full guidelines.
Why Should I Enter A Literary Contest?
Ask Pamela Schoenewaldt! Click here.
Ask Cathy Kodra! Click here.
Ask Dale Mackey! Click here.
Ask Brooks Clark! Click here.
Ask Arthur J. Stewart! Click here.
Why should you enter a literary contest? There are lots of reasons.
- Writing contests are a great way to exercise your creativity and garner prizes too. The KWG contests will award more than $1,000 in prize money.
- The contests have a respected history and are part of the East Tennessee tradition of producing great writers. They are a great way to jumpstart your writing career.
- The KWG contests are still small enough that your chances of winning are good.
- You will be in good company. Click here and check out the list of past winners.
- If you win, it will give you a great plug to put on your resume, book jacket, and website.
Contests are open to everyone above the age of 18, with the following exceptions: Members of the KWG board of directors and contests committee may not submit entries to KWG competitions. Previous first-prize winners are barred from the contest they had won for one year.
Thanks, Contest Sponsors!
We appreciate the businesses and individuals who are sponsoring the 2012 Literary Contests. You can be a sponsor, too! To see a list of some of our sponsors, click here.
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KWG Writing Groups!KWG now has 16 active writing groups, with others forming all the time. If you are interested in being in a group or helping to form a new one, take a look at our Writing Groups page and speak to Terry Shaw, President. We are always interested in starting new groups. Writing groups are central to the Writers' Guild. Join one!
Check out all the Writing Groups--click here!
Watch Us on Community TV!
The Knoxville Writers' Guild has its own Community Television Show now airing at 9 p.m. each Thursday on CTV (Channel 12 in Knoxville). The show can also be watched online at http://ctvknox.org/
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