December: A holiday "pot-luck"
dinner will begin at 6:00pm. 1999
December: A holiday "pot-luck"
dinner will begin at 6:00pm.
The December meeting of the Knoxville Writers' Guild features father and son readers. Jeff Daniel Marion , Distinguished Poet-in-Residence and Director of the Appalachian Center at Carson-Newman College, will read from his latest collection of poetry, The Chinese Poet Awakens. Marion iserved for nine years as poet-in-residence for the Tennessee Governor's School for the Humanities, and in 1993 participated in a Distinguished Authors Series sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. HIs many achievements were honored at Emory & Henry College's 1994 Literary Festival. Marion lectures widely and conducts workshops on teaching and writing poetry throughout the Southern Appalachian region.
Sharing the program with his dad, Stephen Marion will read from his works of fiction. Marion received his BA in history and English at Carson-Newman College and his MFA at Cornell University, where he was awarded the Andrews Prize for Fiction. His stories have appeared in the Greensboro Review, Epoch, and New Stories of the South--The Best of 1998. He is a reporter and photographer for the Standard Banner in Jefferson City. Marion lives in Dandridge with his wife, Eugenia, and is an avid gardener. His first novel is nearing completion.
November:Panel discussion
with Marilyn Kallet, Linda Parsons, and Katherine Smith to celebrate the
book, Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival,
edited by Marilyn Kallet. The book will be published by the University
of Georgia in November 1999.
October: Winners
of "How Books Changed My Life" contest will read from their entries.
First place: Julie Auer. Second place tie: Judy Loest and
Jane Williams. Third place: Caroline Norris. Honorable Mention:
Chuck Bowers, Bobby Riggs, Mary Tebo, Darla O'Neill.
September:Lebanese
author Anwar F. Accawi will read from his most recent book, The Boy
From the Tower of the Moon. Accawi will talk about the writing
of his memoir of life in a small southern Lebanese village immediately
following World War II.
August: Winners from
the Les Garrett Fiction Contest will read from their entries.
July: Open Mike.
All members are encouraged to participate.
June: Winners from
the Libba Moore Gray Poetry Competition will read from their entries:
Tim Grindstaff, 1st place; Connie Green, 2nd place. Winners
from the 1999 Young Writers' Poetry Competition will also read from
their works. High School Category: Laura Maston, 1st prize; Jennifer
Bowen , 2nd prize; Lauren McCollum, 3rd prize; Lauren Butz,
Jessica Trent, and David Michelson, honorable mention winners.
Middle School Category: Lisa Rivera and Clint Kennamer.
May: The Bijou Theatre
Center's production, Kidswrite, a theatricalization of writings
by Knox County students will appear at the May 6 meeting. The production
was awarded the Knoxville Area Theatre Coalition's Prize for Best Children's
Theatre Production.
April: Born in Sodom,
North Carolina, author, singer, and storyteller Sheila Kay Adams
will read her stories from her most recent work, Come Go Home With
Me. With a foreward written by noted author Lee Smith and published
by the University of North Carolina Press, Adams' collection of stories
describes the unique community of Sodom. Adams is a singer of ballads, a
teller of stories, and a writer with a link to the old ways of the North
Carolina hills.
March: With over
30 books and more than 20 television plays and screenplays to his credit,
Jon Manchip White, reads from his newest book The Journeying
Boy , published by Iris Press. Born in Cardiff, Wales, White served
in the Royal Navy in WWII and is a member of the Welsh Academy. He is a
former professor at the University of Tennessee and Lindsay Young Chair
of Humanities.
February: Editor
of the Asheville Poetry Review, poet, and singer for the rock
and blues band The Crystal Zoo, Keith Flynn, reads from his collections
of poetry, The Talking Drum and The Book of Monsters
. Flynn, who lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina, laces his readings with
singing of the blues.
January: Free-lance
writer and editor, News-Sentinel garden columnist,and author of
Roses: A Growing Guide to Easy Colorful Gardens, Mary Weaver
speaks on her craft. In addition to free-lancing, Weaver has edited
several books and launched two new magazines--HGTV Ideas and
Storytelling Magazine, which won an American Society of Association
Executives' Gold Circle Award for best magazine.
Archive of
program speakers, 1998 to present
Tennessee
Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel