Come to the meetings! 2008

Each meeting involves a brief summary of KWG activities followed by a program that includes noted individuals, both local and national, from the writing and publishing fields. Speakers and programs include:

December: KWG annual holiday potluck (program TBA).

November: Editor of the Appalachian Journal and co-editor of Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, Sandra Ballard is the biographer of Harriette Simpson Arnow, author of The Dollmaker and other novels.

October: Showcase for the KWG Anthology Outscape: Writings on Borders and Frontiers with editors Jessie Janeshek and Jesse Graves.

September: David Hunter, 2008 Career Achievement Award winner, will speak about his newest book, Tempest at the Sunsphere.

August: Gap House Writers Group-- Sylvia Lynch, Sylvia Woods, Denton Loving, and Donna McClanahan, all members of a monthly writers group, will share their work and their ideas about how to establish a successful and productive writing community.

July: Open Mic for members.

June: Knoxville resident Terry Shaw is a novelist, winner of the “First Chapters” online competition co-sponsored by Simon & Schuster and gather.com, a social networking site. Shaw is author of The Way Life Should Be.

May: Maurice Manning is a prize-winning poet, writing teacher at Indiana University and Warren Wilson MFA program, and winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Manning is author of Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, A Companion of Owls, and Bucolics.

April: K.B. Ballentine Irish-American writer, poet and writing teacher, will conduct a writing workshop at this meeting. Ballentine is author of Gathering Stones (Celtic Cat, 2008)

March: Contributors to the anthology The Moveable Nest: A Mother/Daughter
Companion, co-edited by Marilyn Kallet and Kathryn Stripling Byer.

February: Food writer Fred Sauceman will talk about his work in documenting the food and culture of Southern Appalachia. In addition to being editor of Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, he is also executive assistant to the president for public affairs and associate professor of Appalachian studies. Sauceman is the author of a weekly food column, The Place Setting, for the Kingsport Times-News; food essayist for Inside Appalachia, a weekly radio program produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting; and a contributing writer for Marquee magazine. His book, The Place Setting: Timeless Tastes of the Mountain South, from Bright Hope to Frog Level, was published in 2006 by Mercer University Press in Macon, GA.

January: Join us to hear the wonderful readings from award-winning author Connie Jordan Green. Her novel The War at Home was placed on the ALA List of Best Books for Young Adults, both books were selected by the New York City Library as Books for the Teen Age, The War at Home was nominated to the 1991-92 Volunteer State Book Award Master List, and Emmy was selected as a Notable 1992 Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. More information about Connie Jordan Green.


 
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