Speakers'
Bureau: Memoirs &
Journaling Speakers'
Bureau: Memoirs &
Journaling
Speakers selected to represent the Knoxville Writers Guild are not paid by the Guild, but have agreed to donate 10% of all honoraria, compensation and book sales to the KWG. Neither the Bureau nor the Guild acts as an intermediary or agent in recommending individual speakers. How to use the Speakers Bureau: You may either search the list of speakers or select a particular category such as Poetry or Regional Writing and chose a writer with expertise in that category. Return to list of all speakers.
Once you have selected the speaker who best suits your organizations needs and the interests of your members, contact him or her directly using contact information on the Speakers Bureau web site. You and the speaker can then set program content, compensation (if any) and logistical arrangements. Since the Speakers Bureau is a community service of the Knoxville Writers Guild, we are anxious for your feedback. After the program, we invite you to fill out the exit survey, either on-line at this website [link] or in hard copy provided by the speaker.
|
He has been an ESL teacher for 37 years in the USA and abroad and now is on staff at the UT's English Language Institute. Anwar's areas of expertise include writing, Middle Eastern history, culture and politics as well as Islamic thought and religion. Categories: Nonfiction, Memoirs, Poetry, Story Telling, Middle East E-mail: aaccawi@utk.edu |
Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Carole was also the recipient of Massachusetts Artists Foundation award. Her unique Writing Your Family Memories and Elements of Fiction workshops have been presented in a variety of settings. She has been a presenter at the East Coast Writing Conference and the Florida Scholastic Press Associations Workshop for High School Seniors. Carole is currently available as a reader, speaker or workshop leader. She has experience working with small and large groups and writers at all levels. Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing for Young People, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, The Writing Process, Publishing & Marketing. E-mail: caroleann1@yahoo.com |
 Fred
Brown,
Senior Writer for the Knoxville News-Sentinel, is a member
of the Scripps Howard Hall of Fame and a recipient of the prestigious
Malcolm Law Trophy for Feature Writing and a National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
He traveled to the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia during the buildup
of the first Gulf War, and in 1988 he covered the Olympics in
Korea, writing a column for Scripps Howard called Soul to
Seoul. With his wife, Jeanne McDonald, he has co-authored two books, The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith (winner of the Harry Caudill Award for Journalism and several other awards); and Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Its Writers.. Fred's book on fall road trips in East Tennessee, Discovering October Roads: Fall Color and Geology in Tennessee, is co-authored with geologist and photographer Harry Moore, and his most recent book with UT Press is Marking Time, stories behind the historical markers on East Tennessee highways. He writes for the Ulster-Scot news magazine and The Civil War Courier and was the founding editor for Appalachian Life Magazine. In addition, he was one of the founding members of the Knoxville Writers Guild and served as president for two years. He is currently working on a civil war novel. Categories: Memoirs & Journaling, Regional Writing, The Writing Process, Journalism. E-mail: tennwriter@bellsouth.net |
Categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Teaching Writing, 9-12 School Programs, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, The Writing Process. Alexs web site is: www.alexgabbard.com. E-mail: GPPress@att.net |
|
She performed her play Exposed, a non-fiction journey through her life chronicling her survival through childhood incest, her rape in her early adulthood, and violence, struggles with food addiction, and negative body image for the Knoxville Writers Guild in March of 2006. Exposed won the 2006 Margaret Atley Woodruff Award for Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee. The play will be one of the featured plays for The Actors Co-op's Fringe Festival. Kali was the recipient of the 2005 and 2006 Margaret Atley Woodruff Award for Creative Writing, the 2005 and 2006 Eleanor Burke Award for non-fiction, and received second place in the Bain-Swigget Award for form poetry in 2006. She has publications in The New Millennium Review, Pegasus Review, Prism, Knoxville Writers' Guild's Body Anthology: Low Explosions, Phoenix, and Circle Magazine. Categories: Poetry, Non-fiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Humor, Songwriting & Performance Art, Playwriting, The Writing Process, and Writing as a Form of Recovery. |
She has published short fiction, reviews and articles in anthologies, magazines (Better Homes and Gardens, Memphis Magazine, Women Writing in Appalachia, e.g.) newspapers and journals. She is a recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission/Alex Haley Fiction Fellowship, a Washington Prize in Fiction, and awards from the National League of American Pen Women and the National Writers Association. She is a contributing editor for Metro Pulse, Knoxville's weekly alternative newspaper, and Knoxville Magazine. She is now completing a new novel. Categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling. E-mail: jmd531k@msn.com |
|
After a thirty year career of teaching English in high school, Rector works with his new web site, Teacher Tales, where classroom teachers share their stories, as well as continuing as a freelance writer. Categories: Teaching Writing in K-12, Memoirs & Journaling, Grammar for Grownups, Journalism, Editing, Writing about this Region. E-mail: joerector@comcast.net Web sites: www.teachertales.net and www.thecommonisspectacular.com |
|
|
Categories: Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, Teaching Writing & the Writing Process, K-12 School Programs.
|
His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Michigan Journalism Fellowship, a Golden Presscard Award and the Malcolm Law Journalism Prize. Williams is finishing a novel, Oracle of the Orchid Lounge set in his native Tennessee. His book of journalism, Heroes, Sheroes and Zeroes is on sale now. Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Publishing & Marketing, Regional, Grammar for Grownups, Journalism. E-mail: donwilliams7@charter.net Or visit the NMW website at www.mach2.com |
WEB DISCLAIMER: The Knoxville Writers Guild (KWGT) confirms that the information on this website provides good faith statements of the speaker's qualifications. It is the responsibility of the client to determine the suitability of a speaker for their needs. Opinions expressed by the speaker do not necessarily represent those of the Guild. Clients who use the KWG Speakers' Bureau services agree that the Guild will not be held responsible for personal or physical harm or losses financial or otherwise that may occur as a result of engagement of the speakers.
Anwar F. Accawi, author of The
Boy from the Tower of the Moon (Beacon Press, 1999)
has published essays in The Sun, the Sewanee Review,
DoubleTake, Now and Then, Mizna, the Best American
Essays (1998), and Harper's.
Carole Borges, author of Disciplining
the Devils Country has published poems in Poetry,
Kalliope, Crosscurrents. Her non-fiction credits include
Rudder Magazine, Vegetarian Digest and Review,
and Horsemans Journal. A series of her non-fiction
essays was featured in the North Shore Sunday magazine.
As a freelance journalist, her work has been seen in the Lynn
Item, the Dorchester Community News,
the West Side Gazette, and the Enlightener
newspaper in Knoxville.
Among his 17 books, Alex
Gabbard
is a 2-time Book of the Year recipient with hundreds of magazine
and newspaper features illustrated by thousands of his photos
on topics of travel, non-fiction and fiction. Gaspee,
his latest work of historical fiction, asks, When did Americas
Revolution begin." Checkmate is a modern
intrigue set in Oak Ridge, and Blood of the Rose,
is a Freedom Book of the Month selection. Return to Thunder
Road is an Amazon.com 5-star book, and Adventures
of an H-Bomb Mechanic, a memoir of life in America after
the Manhattan Project, is an accounting by a Top Boomer during
the Cold War era.
Kali Meister has worked for
two decades as an actress, performer, and writer. Her most recent
contribution to Knoxville theater community include five different
productions of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues
and a multitude of benefit productions for local charities including
Michael Karnes, T-Cells and Sympathy for AIDS Response Knoxville
and Exonerated for Amnesty International.
Jeanne McDonald has published
a novel, Water Dreams, and is co-author of two
nonfiction books written with her husband, Fred BrownThe
Serpent Handlers, and Growing Up Southern: How
the South Shapes Its Writers.
Joe Rector
writes a weekly column for the Knoxville News Sentinel
and The Focus. His works have also appeared in
the Knoxville Writers' Guild anthology Low Impact, and he has
published works in Chicken Soup for the Mother and Son
Soul, Chicken Soup for the New Mother's Soul, and Chicken
Soup for the Menopause Soul. Additionally, his works
have appeared in Knoxville Magazine and Grandparent
Magazine.
Pam
Strickland is
a widely published essayist and journalist for both regional
and national publications writing on politics, social justice,
religion, health and family. The high school yearbook she advised
was nationally recognized. Currently adjunct teaching at Roane
State Community College, while freelance writing, she is co-
author of the upper elementary fiction book, Under One
Flag: A Year at Rohwer by August House Publishing, which
is a 2006 Historic Preservation Book Prize nominee. She has also
done editing for August House and others.
Don Williams is a prize-winning
columnist for The Knoxville News-Sentinel, as
well as a freelance journalist, short story writer and the founding
editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings,
an annual anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.