Panel Discussion and Gala 2008 - April 26, 2008

David Hunter receives Career Achievement Award from Don WilliamsDavid Hunter receives the 2008 Career Achievement Award. The Career Achievement Award is a salute to the full body of a writer’s work which spans a career. Past recipients include: Carson Brewer, George Scarbrough, Wilma Dykeman, Jon Manchip White and Jeff Daniel Marion.

Hunter’s work of the past 30 years includes 15 published books, numerous magazine and newspaper articles and a weekly opinion column that appears in the Knoxville News-Sentinel on Mondays.

“Writing in the 22nd Century: Technology We Must Know”, the panel discussion featured media experts:

--Allen Wright, president of Focus Media Concepts, Inc.
--Katie Allison Granju, nationally noted blogger and online producer at WBIR.com
--Cyn Mobley, a USA Today bestselling author and proprietor of Greyhound Books and Bushido Press.
Allen Wright, president of Focus Media Concepts, Inc.

Music by jazz, soul and funk band Kelle Jolly and Friends Food, music, and inspiring conversation! Cyn Mobley, owner of Bushido Press Katie Allison Granju, online producer at WBIR

Rip Lydick, Jenna Wright, and Pam Strickland