2000
*December: Join us
for our Holiday Pot Luck and Book Fair. Bring a dish
of your own cooking to share and browse through Guild members' published
books for sale. Readers will share some Christmas classics. And
of course, Breathing the Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology
will be available for purchase.
* Because of scheduling
at Laurel Theatre, we will meet on Dec. 14 instead of Dec. 7 at
7:00pm.
November: Join us
as the Guild celebrates the debut of Breathing the Same Air:
An East Tennessee Anthology at our November meeting. Edited
by Doris Ivie and Leslie M. LaChance, this anthology features poetry, essays,
short stories, photography, and drama by 83 authors and artists! Readers
for the November 2 program: John Nolt, Rajeshree Solanki, Elizabeth Corbett,
David Keffer, Linda Parris-Bailey, John Martin, and Heather Joyner
.
October: Co-sponsored
by the University of Tennessee Dept. of English and the Knoxville Writers'
Guild, Brian Conley will be the guest speaker at the October 5 meeting.
Conley will read from his novel, The Killer of Love, published
in 1999 by Buckhead Press. The book is set in the Ft. Sanders area
of Knoxville in the 1980's, where the forces of good and evil are fueled by
drugs. Conley is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and operates
his businesses from Knoxville.
September: Winners
of the Leslie Garrett Fiction Award will read from their works:
1st Joe Pardue, 2nd
Bobby Riggs, 3rd Elizabeth Howard. This award is named for
the author of In the Country of Desire, who, before his death in
1993, asked that a fund be established in his name to help struggling writers.
August: Readings
by winners of the Young Writers Prize:
1st Megan Cox,
2nd Anna Jefferson, 2rd Claire Dawson.
Honorable Mentions:
Kara Pearson, Jessica Ward, Leslie Ham, Jennifer Pruitt.
Open Mic! Members
and non-members may read from their work. Just sign up at the beginning
of the session.
July: Reading
by Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald from their new non-fiction work, The
Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith.
June: Readings
by winners of the Libba Moore Gray Poetry:
1st Jeanette Giles, "Because This is the Time"
2nd Connie Jordan Green, "Housekeeping"
3rd Donna Doyle, "First Blood"
May: The May
4 meeting of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild will feature a panel of Knoxville
journalists who will discuss oppportunities for publishing online. Panelists
include Don Williams, Crystal Cook, and Glynn Wilson. After
each
gives a short presentation,
the panel will answer questions.
Don Williams is a
News-Sentinel columnist, a short story writer, and a founding editor
of New Millennium Writings (a literary journal established
in 1995). His awards include the 1998 Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional
Journalists award for Best Column, a National Endowment for the Humanities/University
of Michigan Journalism Fellowship, and the Malcolm Law
Trophy. He served on a panel
at the recent AWP Conference, and currently has a piece of fiction on the
USA.Today.com "You're the author" interactive writing feature.
Crystal Cook is the Sports Channel Manager and Golf Host for BellaOnline.com, a new internet community by women and for women. Cook is also a contributing writer for Windowbox.com, a Golf editor for Briefme.com, and writes devotionals for Iam3rd.com. Her personal essays have been published in e-zines and in print magazines and newspapers. Cook works from home, searching the web for new writing opportunities.
Glynn Wilson recently made a presentation on e-publishing at the Birmingham Southern Writing Today conference. Wilson is a veteran journalist, editor-in-chief of a pioneering online magazine called The Southerner.net, and an instructor of journalism and mass communication and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
April: Mary Bozeman
Hodges will be the speaker at the April 6 meeting. Hodges is an
English professor at Carson-Newman College. She will be reading from
her collection of short stories, Tough Customers, recently
published by the Jesse Stuart Foundation. Hodges' collection
contains eight poems and sixteen stories--nine new stories and seven stories
that have already been published in various journals, such as The Mossy
Creek Reader, Journal of Kentucky Studies, and Appalachian
Heritage.
March: Author
of three collections of poems, Kate Daniels, will read at the March
program. Her collections of poetry include: Four Testimonies
(LSU Press, 1998); The Niobe Poems (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press,
1998); and The White Wave, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry
Prize (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1984). In addition to publishing
poems in many periodicals and anthologies, she has also edited Out
of the Silence: Muriel Rukeyser's Selected Poems and Solitude
and Silence: Wrirings on Robert Bly. Of her recent book,
Four Testimonies, poet Alan Shapiro says, "This is a beautiful,
heart-wrenching book whose beauty is part and parcel of its ferocious power."
Currently professor of English at Vanderbilt University, Daniels has previously
taught at LSU, Bennington, Duke, Univ. of Massachusetts, Virginia, and Wake
Forest.
February:Brenda Hillman
, the author of six books, including fine books of poems and a collection
of Emily Dickinson's poems, edited for Shambala Press, will give a poetry
reading. Her most recent volumes are Loose Sugar (1997) and
Bright Existence (1993), both from Wesleyan University Press.
Among her many honors are a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Pushcart
Prize, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and the Poetry Society of America
Norma Farber Prize for Poetry. Hillman teaches at St. Mary's College in Moraga,
California.
January: Eddie Francisco
and his co-authors, Linda Francisco and Robert Vaughan will
discuss the pitfalls of their upcoming work, The South in Perspective:
An Anthology of Southern Literature. Prentice-Hall anticipates books
in stock as early as June of 2000 although the publication date is 2001.
Eddie Francisco is associate professor of English and director of creative
writing at Pellissippi State Technical Community College and author of novel
Till Shadows Flee; a prize-winning volume of poems Life
Boat; and a nonfiction work on bibliotherapy for children,
Book Time for the Family. Linda Francisco, assistant director of human
resources at the University of Tennessee and adjunct instructor in English,
is also the editor of Stories from Tennessee, a collection of
short fiction by notable Tennessee authors. Robert Vaughan is dean of Humanities
at Roane State Community College with an academic specialty in southern literature,
especially the novels of William Faulkner.
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