What's New with the Knoxville Writers' Guild?

David HunterAcclaimed Knoxville author and columnist David Hunter will speak at the Thursday, Sept. 4 meeting of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild about his new
novel, Tempest at the Sunsphere (Tellico Books).

 

 

Add your blog! If you are a Guild member who writes a blog, share it with us, and we'll add it to our Members' Websites & Blogs page.

Stay tuned for a November 15 writing workshop with K.D. Ballentine!

2008 Contest Winners

KWG Award for Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Sue Weaver Dunlap
First Place: In the Car with Mother on Christmas Eve by Phyllis Gobbell of Nashville
Second Place: On Emanuel Cemetery Road by Jane Sasser of Oak Ridge
Third Place: Hope on I-40 by Jenna Wright of Martin

KWG Award for Fiction in honor of Leslie Garrett
Judge: Pamela Schoenewaldt w/ Carole Ann Borges and Alan Sims
First Place: The Sound that Clouds Make by Lones Seiber of Morristown
Second Place: A Full Day by David E. Joyner of Knoxville
Third Place: Apple Crisp is Easy by Mary H. Clarke of Nashville

KWG Award for Poetry in Honor of Libba Moore Gray and Terry Semple
Judge: Marianne Worthington
First Place: Heartwood by Cathy A. Kodra of Knoxville
Second Place: from Suburban Hymns, i. There Is a Fountain by Joshua Robbins of Knoxville
Third Place: From a Hospital Bed by Connie Jordan Green of Lenoir City
(In no particular order):
Honorable Mention: More Than a Rooster by Tim Sisk of Knoxville
Honorable Mention: Burrow by Melanie Williams of Oak Ridge
Honorable Mention: Tornado Season by Caroline Mann of Knoxville TN 37917

KWG Young Writers’ Award for Poetry
Judge: Candance Reaves w/ Laura Still and Judy Loest
First Place - Mi Perla Bonita by Meg Clowers of Oak Ridge
Second Place - Growing Seasons by Monica Silvera of Kingston
Third Place - August 6, 1945 by Kellsey Hook of Oak Ridge

--Speaker' Bureau: 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. Search the list of speakers or select a particular category such as Poetry Nonfiction, Songwriting, or Regional Writing and choose a writer with expertise in that category. More...

Listen to an audio file from the July 2007 Open Mic program. Thanks to Gene Brennan for his efforts to deliver and to Guild members reading from their own writings! Right-click here to download to your desktop.

Check out the events at the library!  For more information, contact Nelda Hill, Reference Department, Knox County Public Library System, 865-215-8723.

Writers in the Library invites you to a lively and diverse series of Monday night readings by fine writers of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Sponsored by UT Library Friends and the UT Creative Writing Program. For more information, contact R. B. Morris, 974-3004

John Reaves polls writers on the how-to books that help them most.

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