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.

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

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, Judy’s 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.

Judy is a YWCA Woman of Distinction in the Arts who has won numerous awards including first place for humorous nonfiction at the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, first place for humorous essay at the Virginia Highlands Festival, Abingdon, VA, and second place for a humorous one-act play at the Lost State Writers’ Conference. She is a frequent workshop presenter who has spoken at the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference, the Appalachian Writers’ Association Conference, and the Alabama Writers Conclave. She will teach a noncredit course on humor writing for the University of Tennessee in 2007.

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

Jim Johnston is interested in and has spoken on Exile: Poems of an Irish Immigrant, his first collection of poems, self-published in 1997. The collection explores the reasons for leaving Ireland in 1974 and his experience of leaving home. Jim is an accomplished reader of the works of other Irish poets and has spoken about writing to both high school and junior college creative writing classes.

He is the owner of Celtic Cat Publishing, a small independent Knoxville publishing company. "I have spoken on various aspects of publishing, particularly self-publishing. Celtic Cat Publishing was founded in 1995 and has published nine books including works by Jeff Daniel Marion, Marilyn Kallet, Arthur Stewart, Frank Jamison and Angie Vicars."

"With over 44 million U.S. residents tracing their ancestry back to Ireland, I am periodically asked to speak on various aspects of Irish history and culture. I have spoken on Northern Ireland, particularly on the period known as the Troubles; on the development of modern Ireland; and on Saint Patrick."

Categories: Poetry, Publishing, Ireland.

E-mail: celtic01@comcast.net

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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.

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

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