Speakers'
Bureau: Teaching Writing
& the Writing Process Speakers'
Bureau: Teaching Writing
& the Writing Process
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.
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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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Brian Griffin says, "In addition to reading and discussing my own fiction or my own poetry in front of adults, I am always happy to teach creative writing to children of any age. I can conduct workshops for K-12 teachers and am experienced at hosting poetry readings or "slams" for Middle School and High School youth." Categories: Poetry, Fiction, Writing for Young People, Teaching Writing, The Writing Process, K-12 School Programs. E-mail: taylorprize@yahoo.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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She has won the Chekhov Prize, Leslie Garrett, Tennessee Writers, and Literal Lattés Fiction Awards. Besides teaching creative writing to school and community audiences, Pamela has an extensive list of corporate and non-profit clients for print, video, speech and grant-writing, and editing. She provides engaging, informative lunch & learn, dinner talks, workshops and seminars for corporate, community and professional audiences. Categories: Fiction, Teaching Writing, K-12 School Programs, Grammar for Grownups, Writing as a career, Business and Professional & Technical writing. E-mail: p.schoene@comcast.net |
Categories: Nonfiction, Memoirs & Journaling, Journalism, Regional, Teaching Writing & the Writing Process, K-12 School Programs. E-mail: pamstrickland@mac.com |
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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 |
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 |
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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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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.
Judy DiGregorio was
recently nominated by the Tennessee Arts Commission for inclusion
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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.
Brian
Griffin
is
a fiction writer, poet and essayist whose work has been widely
published in journals such as Shenandoah, Mississippi
Review, New Delta Review, Asheville Poetry Review, Southern Poetry
Review, New Millenium Writings, and many others. He
received the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction
for his book Sparkman in the Sky and Other Stories,
a collection of short fiction which the New York Times
Book Review called "beyond promising." A former
Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee Libraries,
he has taught literature and creative writing at U.T., Pellissippi
State, Webb Middle School, and the University of Virginia. He
has also taught at U.T.'s Young Writers' Institute. He holds
an M.F.A in Creative Writing from UVA and is co-founder and current
director of The Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel,
a national competition co-sponsored by the Knoxville Writers'
Guild and the University of Tennessee Press.
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.
Pamela
Schoenewaldt teaches writing at the University of
Tennessee and was Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee
Libraries. Her short fiction is set in the U.S. and Italy where she
lived for 10 years. Her work has appeared in Belletrist
Review, Bianco su Nero (Italy), Carve, Cascando
(U.K.), Crescent Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Literal
Latté, Mediphors, Mondogreco, New Letters, New Millennium Writing,
Literary Lunch, New Letters, Paris Transcontinental, Pinehurst Journal,
Potomac Review, Square Lake, The Sun, Womens’ Words
and Writers Place.
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.