Carole Borges, author of Disciplining the Devils Country has published poems in Poetry, Kalliope, Crosscurrents. Her non-fiction credits include Rudder Magazine, Vegetarian Digest and Review, and Horsemans Journal. A series of her non-fiction essays was featured in the North Shore Sunday magazine. As a freelance journalist, her work has been seen in the Lynn Item, the Dorchester Community News, the West Side Gazette, and the Enlightener newspaper in Knoxville.

Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Carole was also the recipient of Massachusetts Artists Foundation award. Her unique Writing Your Family Memories and Elements of Fiction workshops have been presented in a variety of settings. She has been a presenter at the East Coast Writing Conference and the Florida Scholastic Press Associations Workshop for High School Seniors. Carole is currently available as a reader, speaker or workshop leader. She has experience working with small and large groups and writers at all levels.

Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing for Young People, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, The Writing Process, Publishing & Marketing.

E-mail: caroleann1@yahoo.com

Catherine E. Crawley holds a Ph.D. in Science Communication from the University of Tennessee, and has experience in teaching, journalism, and public relations. Additionally, she has been a workplace consultant for the Gallup Organization and consulted for Fortune 500 companies in the United States and Singapore. She has taught journalism and English at the middle school, high school, and college-level. She began her career as a newspaper reporter at the Star-News in Pasadena, California, and covered the White House and Congress for trade publications in Washington, D.C. She is a published academic author and has published creative fiction in KWG's Literary Lunch anthology.

Dr. Crawley currently writes grants, conducts research, and writes and edits for private clients of her business, Crawley Communications & Research.

Categories: Professional & Technical Writing; Grammar for Grownups; Teaching Writing & the Writing Process; Journalism; K-12 School Programs; Fiction; Nonfiction

Email: ccrawley@crawleycommunications.com

  Judy DiGregorio was recently nominated by the Tennessee Arts Commission for inclusion in SouthernArtistry.com, an adjudicated online artist registry that spotlights outstanding artists who live and work in the South. A published author of more than 100 columns, essays, and humorous poems, Judy is a monthly humor columnist for Senior Living Magazine.

Judy is a YWCA Woman of the Year in the Arts and has won first place for humorous nonfiction at the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, Oak Ridge, and the Virginia Highlands Festival, Abingdon, VA. She is a frequent workshop presenter who will speak at the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference and the Alabama Writers Conclave in 2006.

Categories: Fiction, The Writing Process, Humor, Marketing Your Writing, K-12 School Programs (in Oak Ridge TN only).

E-mail: jdigregorio60@hotmail.com

Among his 17 books, Alex Gabbard is a 2-time Book of the Year recipient with hundreds of magazine and newspaper features illustrated by thousands of his photos on topics of travel, non-fiction and fiction. Gaspee, his latest work of historical fiction, asks, When did Americas Revolution begin." Checkmate is a modern intrigue set in Oak Ridge, and Blood of the Rose, is a Freedom Book of the Month selection. Return to Thunder Road is an Amazon.com 5-star book, and Adventures of an H-Bomb Mechanic, a memoir of life in America after the Manhattan Project, is an accounting by a Top Boomer during the Cold War era.

Categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Teaching Writing, 9-12 School Programs, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, The Writing Process.

Alexs web site is: www.alexgabbard.com.

E-mail: GPPress@att.net

  Brian Griffin is a fiction writer, poet and essayist whose work has been widely published in journals such as Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Millenium Writings, and many others. He received the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction for his book Sparkman in the Sky and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction which the New York Times Book Review called "beyond promising." A former Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee Libraries, he has taught literature and creative writing at U.T., Pellissippi State, Webb Middle School, and the University of Virginia. He has also taught at U.T.'s Young Writers' Institute. He holds an M.F.A in Creative Writing from UVA and is co-founder and current director of The Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, a national competition co-sponsored by the Knoxville Writers' Guild and the University of Tennessee Press.

Brian Griffin says, "In addition to reading and discussing my own fiction or my own poetry in front of adults, I am always happy to teach creative writing to children of any age. I can conduct workshops for K-12 teachers and am experienced at hosting poetry readings or "slams" for Middle School and High School youth."

Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Writing for Young People, Teaching Writing, The Writing Process, K-12 School Programs.

E-mail: taylorprize@yahoo.com

Jeanne McDonald has published a novel, Water Dreams, and is co-author of two nonfiction books written with her husband, Fred BrownThe Serpent Handlers, and Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Its Writers.

She has published short fiction, reviews and articles in anthologies, magazines (Better Homes and Gardens, Memphis Magazine, Women Writing in Appalachia, e.g.) newspapers and journals. She is a recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission/Alex Haley Fiction Fellowship, a Washington Prize in Fiction, and awards from the National League of American Pen Women and the National Writers Association.

She is a contributing editor for Metro Pulse, Knoxville's weekly alternative newspaper, and Knoxville Magazine. She is now completing a new novel.

Categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling.

E-mail: jmd531k@msn.com

Pamela Schoenewaldt teaches writing at the University of Tennessee and was Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee Libraries. Her short fiction is set in the U.S. and Italy where she lived for 10 years. Her work has appeared in Belletrist Review, Bianco su Nero (Italy), Carve, Cascando (U.K.), Crescent Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Literal Latté, Mediphors, Mondogreco, New Letters, New Millennium Writing, Literary Lunch, New Letters, Paris Transcontinental, Pinehurst Journal, Potomac Review, Square Lake, The Sun, Womens’ Words and Writers Place.

She has won the Chekhov Prize, Leslie Garrett, Tennessee Writers, and Literal Lattés Fiction Awards. Besides teaching creative writing to school and community audiences, Pamela has an extensive list of corporate and non-profit clients for print, video, speech and grant-writing, and editing. She provides engaging, informative lunch & learn, dinner talks, workshops and seminars for corporate, community and professional audiences.

Categories: Fiction, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Grammar for Grownups, Professional & Technical writing.

E-mail: p.schoene@comcast.net

Don Williams is a prize-winning columnist for The Knoxville News-Sentinel, as well as a freelance journalist, short story writer and the founding editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings, an annual anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Michigan Journalism Fellowship, a Golden Presscard Award and the Malcolm Law Journalism Prize.

Williams is finishing a novel, Oracle of the Orchid Lounge set in his native Tennessee. His book of journalism, Heroes, Sheroes and Zeroes is on sale now.

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Publishing & Marketing, Regional, Grammar for Grownups, Journalism.

E-mail: donwilliams7@charter.net

Or visit the NMW website at www.mach2.com

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