Guild Members Write & Shine!
Frank
Jamison has recently published his poetry: "Chattanooga
Freight" in The Atlanta
Review, "Last Tango" in Xanadu,
and "Ten Days to Solstice" in Fulcrum.
Other recent good news for Frank: "Woman Backlit and Framed in a Doorway"
in Paper Street,
Volume IV, Number 2, 2007; "Whole Cloth" in South
Carolina Review Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2007; "Journal
Entry: New Year's Eve" in Riversedge,
Volume 20, Number 1, 2007.
Tennessee
author and Knoxville Writer’s Guild member, Alex
Gabbard, wins Writer's Digest competition. Gabbard's novel
Gaspee, has won the 2007 competition
for Mainstream Literary Fiction among thousands of entries and
three rounds of judging. Gaspee is the author's
17th book and third Book of the Year recipient. Visit his website: www.alexgabbard.com
for more information.
Carole Anne Borges
has recently published "Knoxville Soup Kitchen" in the online
r.kv.r.y quarterly literary journal, vol. 2,
no. iii, winter/spring 2007. To read, visit: http://ninetymeetingsinninetydays.com/Knoxville
Ron
Miller has
recently published his new book, Escape from the Happy Cannibal,
about his travels to over 80 countries in the world. See the review from
the UT Beacon: http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=50899
Alex
Gabbard has a new
book out: Gaspee and recently received notice of three Honorable Mentions
awarded in the 75th annual Writer's Digest competition that drew about 19,000
entries. The categories were (1) Rhyming Poem - "Rock 'n' Roll Blues";
(2) Memoirs/Personal Essay - "Mediterranean Sunrise"; (3) Feature
Article - "In the Hall of the Mountain King". For more information,
visit: www.alexgabbard.com.
Pamela
Schoenewaldt's short story "The Ice Age in New
Jersey" won 2nd prize and publication for Literal Latte's Fiction Competition.
Ron
Miller has just published his first book Escape From The Happy Cannibal which is a travel
autobiography that uses the venue of global travel to discuss culture, religion,
and spirituality. Miller will be selling books at the Great American Meatout
at Market Square on Saturday March 18. He will also have a book signing
at the Hastings book store in Maryville from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday
March 25. Visit RonTravel.com.
Under One Flag:
A Year at Rohwer, co-written by Pam
Strickland and Liz Parkhurst has been nominated for 2006 Historic Preservation Book Prize from
the Center for Historic Preservation at The University of Mary Washington.
The winner will be announced the first week in May. Under One
Flag: A Year at Rohwer is historical fiction for upper elementary
ages about World War II Japanese internment camps in the Arkansas Delta.
(August House Publishing, March 2005)
S.L. Baer was the December featured author
at the LeConte Book Club. He will be signing his novel, Appalachian Spring,
at Lemuria Books, Jackson, Mississippi, on March 17.
Pamela Schoenewaldt's story "Threads on
the Mountain,” set in 19th Century Abruzzo, appears in Fiction
Attic. To read, go to www.fictionattic.com
and click on Current Issue.
Board member Art
Stewart’s new book, Bushido uses the Japanese concept
of Bushido as inspiration for his latest collection of essays and
poems. The book focuses on two of the seven Bushido virtues – Rei
(respect) and Makoto (truth and sincerity) and is available from the
author or at Knoxville’s fine independent bookstore (Carpe Librum)
or on-line from the publisher, Celtic Cat Publishing, (www.celticcatpublishing.com).
Art also will talk about the concept of Bushido and read from his
work on Sunday, October 23, at 2 p.m. at Carpe Librum. Mark your
calendar and visit with the author!
Judy Di Gregorio has won second place
in the Humorous Poem category for a poem called "First Class". This
is the seventh award Di Gregorio has won from ByLine Magazine
in one of their humor categories.
Pamela Schoenewaldt’s short story, “The
Blessed Virgin, Here and Gone,” won second place in The Writers
Place short story competition. Copies of her story will be sent to
film production companies, agents and managers. The competition also
requested a “logline” or brief plot description.
Pamela’s logline was: “An American woman living in Southern Italy is informed that the Blessed Virgin has appeared in the annoying mildew on her bathroom wall. Now Helen’s apartment is a local shrine and the town demands yet more miracles from ‘L’Americana’.”
For information about upcoming competitions sponsored by The Writers Place, see http://www.thewritersplace.org
Glenn Bernstein has published his first
novel Portraits Unpainted.
Scott Holstad's 15th book of
poetry Cells has just been published! At over 200 pages,
it is available at select bookstores, and online through venues
like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Target, and more. Read
his interview in the Tennessee
Alumnus magazine (summer 2005).
Look for Julia Lieber's
second mystery novel on bookstore shelves in June. The Blue Scorpion (Alyson)
is her follow-up novel to There Came Two
Angels, released last year. Lieber is the mystery pen name
of Guild member and former president Julie Auer.
Don Williams, New-Sentinel
columnist, editor of New Millennium Writings and a Knoxville
freelance journalist, has just published a new book: Heroes, Sheroes and Zeroes: The Best Writings About
People. Included in the book are accounts of famous
and infamous people: Elvis, Jim Bakker, Joan Baez, Michael Jordan,
and more. Most of the pieces are columns collected from the
Knoxville News-Sentinel over the years. Especially memorable
is Williams' account of Knoxville writer Libba Moore Gray's heroic
battle with cancer.
"The Ruins of Paestum" by
Pamela Schoenewaldt will be published soon
in the Potomac Review. In the story,
an American woman travels with her aging father to the ruins
of an ancient Greek settlement, where a violent storm overcomes them
and shakes their long-established roles. Schoenewaldt says she "got
wonderful help on the story from the Guild's Short Story Group."
Scott L. Baer has
just published his first book, Appalachian Spring: A Novel,
set in the Smokies. Appalachian Spring is an extraordinary
novel of merriment, passion and conflict. S.L. Baer tells the gripping
story of hikers and backpackers from diverse backgrounds who come
together by choice and accident to spend a week in the backcountry
of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Details are on his website
at www.slbaer.com
Sarah Boyd's story Casey's Jack
appears in Penwomanship , an online journal of women's writings.
Adrienne Dessel's
poem
"Kosher Kitchen," appears in the online magazine Sunspinner.
Marianne
Worthington won
second place in the annual Tennessee Writers Alliance literary contest
for poetry and read her poem at the Southern Festival of Books in
October. She has poems forthcoming in
The Louisville Review, Birmingham Arts Journal and Journal of Kentucky
Studies. In addition to her day job as a faculty member at Cumberland
College, she teaches creative writing in the Kentucky Governor’s
School for the Arts.
Ronald H. Lands, MD, has won the Tennessee Writers' Association
(TWA) fiction award. He read "The Fogs of August" at the
2004 Southern Book Festival.
Judy
Loest has won the James Still Award for Poetry (Appalachian Writers
Assn, Cumberland College, Williamsburg, KY) for poem titled “Knoxville,
Summer: 2003.” For more winners of the Appalachian Writers
Association Contests, go to: http://www.etsu.edu/english/judaculla/awa_contests.htm
Julie Auer, former president of the Guild, has published her first
novel: There Came Two Angels. Written under her
nom de plume of Julia Lieber, this murder mystery is available
at Borders and Books A Million book stores.
Guild member Jeffrey
Higa has a short essay included in the recetly released anthology
from Ballantine Books, Aunties: Thirty Five Writers Celebrate
Their Other Mother , edited by Ingrid Sturgis. It is a
collection of essays on "real" aunties--the good, the bad, and the
ugly--not just the loving and doting aunties.
R.B. Morris' new book of
prose and poetry, The Littoral Zone, has just been released.
The Littoral Zone is a mixture of new and old works, all powerfully
steeped in Knoxville lore.
Judy Loes t is one of 7 winners of the
Oil of Olay Total Effects Fine Lines Poetry Contest. Co-s ponsored by the Poetry Society
of America, the list of judges included renowned poets—Sonia Sanchez,
Sapphire, Lee Ann Brown, Marilyn Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez,
and Jill Bialosky. Winners each receive $2,000 and the opportunity
to have their poems published in the Poetry in Motion® program,
a joint endeavor founded by the Poetry Society of America and MTA
New York City Transit in 1992. Read the winning poems here
.
Lori Riverstone, is teaching a Kid's U course, offered by
the University of Tennessee. Program Title: Journalism 101: Writing
for the Media. Meeting Dates: July 12 - July 16 Meeting Time: M-F
from 1 PM to 4 PM. Students should register through the University
of Tennessee's Professional and Personal Development Department. Contact
Jennifer Bennett at 974-2981 or at bennettj@outreach.utk.edu.
Judy
DiGregorio recently won an Honorable Mention
for a nonfiction essay at the TN Mountain Writers Conference in
Oak Ridge. She is also teaching noncredit classes at Roane State and Pellissippi
State entitled "From Pen to Publication" aimed at providing beginning
writers with appropriate tools and resources. In July, Judy
will present a similar workshop for the Appalachian Writers Association
in Williamsburg, KY.
Elsin Ann
Perry sold a mystery poem to a mystery magazine
two weeks ago, and last year a mystery of hers was published in
Take-A-Break , an English magazine.
Guild member Doris Ivie, a professor in Natural and Behavioral
Sciences at Pellissippi State Technical Community College, has written
an article that is published in the February/March 2004 edition
of the magazine Bountiful Health: Discovering the Joy of Living Well.
The article, “Write for Your Life,” advocates the healing power
of journaling. Ivie, who has been journaling since she was 14, writes
about the benefits she has received from putting down her thoughts
in journals.
Judy
Loest publishes again in
France Magazine,
a UK publication. Her article “Adventures of a Cheeseaholic”
will appear in the March 2004 issue available at Borders and Barnes & Noble
book stores.
Pamela Schoenewaldt's short story
"Fallout" is featured in The Sun
Magazine, March 2004 issue 339. Read an excerpt .
Allen Wier is featured
in Tennessee Alumnus Magazine
, Spring 2004.
Cumberland Avenue Revisited: Four Decades of Music in Knoxville,
Tennessee , edited by Jack Rentfro
and published by Brian Conley has just hit the shelves in area book stores. Both
Rentfro and Conley are Guild members.
Pamela Schoenewaldt's story set in 19th
Century Abruzzo, "Threads on the Mountain," which was first published
in New Letters , was one of three stories nominated for
a National Magazine Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
The results will be announced sometime soon.
Jeanne McDonald's first novel Water Dreams debuts in mid-September! She
has previously co-authored two nonfiction books with her husband
Fred Brown: Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Its
Writers and The Serpent Handlers: Three
Families and Their Faith. According to novelist Lee Smith, "An accidental drowning
forever changes the middle-aged man who happens to witness it--and
affects everyone else in his life like widening circles in the water
after a rock has been thrown in. Male and female readers alike
will be swept away by this absorbing, grown-up novel, a serious meditation
upon chance, fate, love, and responsibility. Like all the best storytellers,
Jeanne McDonald knows how to disappear and let the story take over."
Scheduled book signings and readings below. McDonald's
story " Up the Hill Toward Home " is included in the recently Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
(2003)published by University Press of Kentucky and edited by
Sandra Ballard and Patricia Hudson.
Ebbing and Flowing Springs by Jeff Daniel Marion and published by Celtic Cat Publishing has
won the following awards. This book, Marion's 7th full-length
collection, offers the author's work over the period 1976-2001 and
includes new poems and previously uncollected stories and essays.
- Ebbing and Flowing Springs is winner of the 2003 Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year Award.
- Independent Publisher Book Award for Poetry 2003 (IPPY)
announced Marion's book in his award for excellence in independent
publishing.
- The book is one of the three finalists for the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Poetry/Literary Criticism category. Both Jim Johnston, owner of Celtic Cat Publishing, and Jeff Daniel Marion are members of the Guild.
Jeanne McDonald is the 1st place
winner in the 2003 Appalachian Fiction Competition sponsored by
the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee
State University. Her winning story, "In the Realm of Possibility"
will be printed in the December 2003 edition of Now & Then
magazine. Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain
, was the final judge.
Judi DiGregorio has won 1st place in
the Virginia Highlands Festival Creative Writing Essay Contest,
Abingdon, VA, for her humorous essay entitled "Accessoritus Ioosus."
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today!