Speakers'
Bureau: NonfictionSpeakers 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.
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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 |
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Dr. Crawley currently writes grants, conducts research, and writes and edits for private clients of her business, Crawley Communications & Research. Categories: Professional & Technical Writing; Grammar for Grownups; Teaching Writing & the Writing Process; Journalism; K-12 School Programs; Fiction; Nonfiction |
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
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She has
also written a gentler book on tree identification for early
elementary students, biographies of a snake and a salamander,
and a book about collecting animals to observe them and then
returning them to their homes. Categories: Nonfiction, Writing for Young People, K-12 School Programs. E-mail: DorisGove@aol.com |
Categories: Nonfiction, The Writing Process, Humor, Publishing and Marketing Your Writing, K-12 School Programs (in Oak Ridge TN only). E-mail: jdigregorio60@comcast.net |
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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 |
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. |
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Categories: Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, Teaching Writing & the Writing Process, K-12 School Programs.
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Ed has extensive experience speaking to audiences of all ages on a variety of subjects. Categories: Nonfiction, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Writing for Young People. To learn more about Ed and his work, visit http://www.sully-writer.com. |
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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 |
She has presented workshops and lectures for the Knoxville Writers Guild, Alabama Writers Conclave, New Opportunity School for Women, Montessori Schools in Knoxville, Kentucky Governors School for the Arts, Laurel County (KY) Public Library, Bellarmine University, Lincoln Memorial University, and Eastern Kentucky University. In Kentucky, she lives with her husband and two fabulously lazy dogs. Categories: Poetry, Nonfiction, Journalism, Regional, K-12 School Programs. E-mail: marianneworthington@hotmail.com |
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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.
Catherine E. Crawley holds a Ph.D. in Science Communication
from the University of Tennessee, and has experience in teaching,
journalism, and public relations. Additionally, she has been
a workplace consultant for the Gallup Organization and consulted
for Fortune 500 companies in the United States and Singapore.
She has taught journalism and English at the middle school, high
school, and college-level. She began her career as a newspaper
reporter at the Star-News in Pasadena, California,
and covered the White House and Congress for trade publications
in Washington, D.C. She is a published academic author and has
published creative fiction in KWG's Literary Lunch anthology.
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.
Doris Gove has written six
books for children and three hiking guides. Her most recent book,
The Smokies Yukky Book: Weird, Creepy, and Completely
Gross Stuff That Really, Really Happens Here is written
for 3rd-5th-graders and is biologically accurate while being
satisfyingly disgusting.
Judy
DiGregorio
was recently nominated by the Tennessee Arts Commission for inclusion
in SouthernArtistry.com, an adjudicated online artist registry
that spotlights outstanding artists who live and work in the
South. A published author of more than 100 columns, essays, and
humorous poems, Judys work has appeared in The Writer, Army-Navy
Times, New Millennium Writings, Literary Lunch, Migrants and
Stowaways, Muscadine Lines: a Southern Anthology, The Church
Musician, CC Motorcycle NewsMagazine, and other publications.
She also writes regular columns for Eva Mag and Senior
Living. 
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.
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.
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.
Ed
Sullivan
is the author of many publications, including three books: The
Holocaust in Literature for Youth: A Guide and Resource Book,
Reaching Reluctant Young Adult Readers: A Handbook for Librarians
and Teachers; and The Ultimate
Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb, a nonfiction
book for young people. Ed has a B.A. and M.A. in English, and
M.S. in Library Science. Ed has taught high school English, and
at three universities.
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.
Marianne Worthington is on the faculty
at University of the Cumberlands and the Kentucky Governors School
for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Shenandoah,
Kalliope, The Louisville Review, Kaleidoscope, Natural Bridge,
Wind, and other literary magazines. Her recently published
poetry chapbook is entitled Larger Bodies
Than Mine.
She won the Sue Ellen Hudson Excellence In Writing Award in 2003
and was a 2005 finalist in the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest.
Mariannes reviews, essays, and other non-fiction have appeared
in Appalachian Heritage, Appalachian Journal, Journal
of Appalachian Studies, Mossy Creek Reader, and Journal
of Kentucky Studies, Louisville Magazine, Now & Then,
and Arts Across Kentucky, Wind. Her prose and
poetry are widely anthologized.