Speakers'
Bureau: Regional Writing Speakers'
Bureau: Regional Writing
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.
 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
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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. Web sites: www.teachertales.net and www.thecommonisspectacular.com Categories: Teaching Writing in K-12, Memoirs & Journaling, Grammar for Grownups, Journalism, Editing, Regional Writing. E-mail: joerector@comcast.net |
Categories: Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, Teaching Writing & the Writing Process, K-12 School Programs.
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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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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.
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.
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.