2001
December: Angelyn
DeBord, born and raised in an isolated area of the Smoky Mountains,
is
a storyteller, playwright,
visual artist, director and workshop leader. A founding member of Appalshop's
Roadside Theater, Angelyn has spent the last 26 years performing and leading
workshops all over America and in Europe. Angelyn's own family has
provided material and inspiration for her writing and performance work throughout
the years. Among her playwright credits are critically acclaimed, Praise
House. Written for the Urban Bush Women of New York City, Praise
House has toured all over America, was a featured play at the Spoletto
Festival, was performed at Kennedy Center and was produced for PBS.
The Guild will also
host a book fair and pot luck dinner. Join us!
November:Kim Trevathan,
who resides high on a hill in the gothic wilderness of Blount County, is
a writer of fiction and nonfiction. His book, Paddling
the Tennessee River: A Voyage on Easy Water, will be published
by the University
of Tennessee Press in October as part of the Outdoor Tennessee
Series. Kim has published fiction in New Millennium Writings
(winner of the Spring 1999 contest), the Texas Review, New Delta Review,
and the anthology, Walking on Water and Other Stories (in which
his was the title story). He has published essays in The Distillery
and Under the Sun. His column, “Blount Rambling” is published
every other Monday in The Maryville Daily Times, where they
allow him to write about anything from dung beetles to Martha Stewart, as
long as it’s not “political.” An instructor at Maryville College, Kim
is the secretary of the Knoxville Writers' Guild Board.
October: Poet-in-residence at Western Carolina
University, Kathryn Stripling Byer, is also the recipient of the
North Carolina Award for Literature and co-editor with Marilyn Kallet for
Leaving the Nest: Mothers and Daughters on the Art of Saying
Goodbye. Byer is the author of three books of poetry:
Black Shawl (1998), Wildwood Flower (1992),
and The Girl in the Midst of Harvest (1986). Byer's
poems have appeared in Arts Journal, Carolina Quarterly, Georgia Review,
Hudson Review, and Poetry. Her essays have been
published in Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women
Writers (UP of Kentucky, 1998), Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision
of Fred Chappell (LSU Press, 1997), The Boston Globe,
and Shenandoah. Her forthcoming book is Catching
the Light and will be published by Louisiana State University Press.
September:
Raised in Knoxville and a sixth-generation Tennessean, published poet Inman
Majors now lives in Tullahoma and teaches at Motlow State Community College
not far from the site of his great-grandfather's mule-trading auction yard.
Amazon.com has given his new book Swimming in Sky a 5-star rating.
August:The August program of the Knoxville Writers' Guild will feature
an Open Mic for Guild members. Participation is limited to the first
fifteen members in good standing who register immediately before the program.
Readings must be no longer than five minutes each.
July: Angie
Vicars, a long-time Guild member, will read from her first novel,
Treat.
June: Winners
from the Libba Moore Gray poetry competition will read from their works.
May: Open
April:
The April meeting of the Knoxville Writers' Guild features a program
by Knoxville novelist Timothy Joseph. "Writing is an opportunity for everyone.
It's not about publication, it's not about recognition; it's about discovery,
growth, and sharing," says Joseph. The long-time Guild member will discuss
the benefits of writing, and will read from his novel Four-Fifths,
published in December by America House. The author will be available to sign
his books afterward. Joseph, who holds a Ph.D. in ecology, is a former teacher
and corporate manager. He now works as a Senior Scientist for the Department
of Energy in Oak Ridge.
March:
Co-sponsored by the UT Creative Writing Program and the Knoxville
Writers' Guild, in association with the John C. Hodges Better English Fund.
Hear Sarah Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner read from their poetry.
Gorham is the author of The Tension Zone, Don't Go Back
to Sleep, The Night Lifted Us and co-editor of Last
Call: Poems on Alcohol, Addiction, and Deliverance. She is founder
and Editor-in-Chief of Sarabande Press. Jeffrey Skinner is the author of
Late Stars, A Guide to Forgetting, The
Company of Heaven, and co-editor of Last Call. His
fourth book of poetry The Moving Sidewalk will soon appear
from Miami University Press. He directs the Creative Writing program at the
University of Louisville and serves as editorial consultant for Sarabande
Books.
February:
Jack Mauro will read from his new book of short stories, Gay Street.
January: Happy
New Year!
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!"
The Guild's first meeting ofthe
new years will honor the writer of Auld Lang Syne. On January 4, Rosemary
Rankin Fraser will present "A Guide for Burnsians," an introduction in word
and song to the legendary Scottish
poet Robert Burns.
Mrs. Fraser was born in Kilmarnock,
Scotland. An ardent Burnsian,she jokes that Kilmarnock is the home of Scotland's
second biggest export --Johnnie Walker Scotch whiskey. Fraser is a graduate
of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where she majored in English
and history.
The meeting also will feature
the winner and runners up of the First Annual Robert Burns Poetry Award.
Established by Guild member Marybeth Boyanton, the first winner of the Terry
Semple Memorial Contest is Donna Doyle. Runners up are Sarah Mate, Sheryl
Hill and Linda Parsons Marion.
Those attending the meeting will
be able to purchase tickets to the annual Burns Supper at the Foundry on
Saturday January 13. This event is held worldwide each January to mark the
birth of Robert Burns.
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