Meacham Writers' Workshop

Readings/seminars writers Thursday March 3, 2016 7:00 pm reading @ Chattanooga State HSC 1087 workshop • {Jeff Hardin} {Laurel Snyder} {Earl Braggs} 9:00 pm reading @ Hart Gallery 110 E. Main Street • {Kris Whorton} {Barry Kitterman} {Russell Helms} {Chad Prevost} M E A C H A Friday March 4, 2016 M 12:00 pm reading @ UTC Derthick Hall 101 SUBMISSIONS FOR SEMINARS Final day for submissions is February 21, 2016. Digital sub- • {Barbara Carlson} {Amy Wright} {Andrew Najberg} {Rebecca Cook} missions of packets of up to 5 double-spaced pages of prose or 3 poems/3 pages of poetry in collated packets can be submitted 7:00 pm reading @ UTC UC Raccoon Mountain Room at http:www.meachamwriters.org/submissions.htm. If you cannot • {Art Smith} {Sarah Einstein} {Rick Jackson} {Dara Wier} submit online, send a printed packet meeting the same length requirements to Richard Jackson, Meacham Writers’ Workshop Eng. Dept. 2703, UTC Chattanooga, TN 37403, or hand deliver to the Saturday March 5, 2016 UTC Eng. Department, 203 Holt Hall. 9:30 am seminar Submitters will be assigned to a Saturday seminar at either • {Barbara Carlson} @ UTC Holt 303 9:30 am or 11:00 am. In addition, submitters will be welcome to • {Jeff Hardin} @ UTC Holt 304 sit in on one of the sessions during the opposing time, though • {Chad Prevost} @ UTC Holt 305 please be aware that only the author of your assigned workshop • {Monica Jo Brown} @ UTC Holt 307 will have read your submission prior to the event. The sessions Saturday morning are NOT workshops but seminars where the 11:00 am seminar writer may lecture, talk generally about the work submitted, or • {Dara Wier} @ UTC Holt 303 perhaps select some work to discuss. • {Art Smith} @ UTC Holt 304 SUBMISSIONS FOR GROUP SEMINARS • {Dana Shavin} @ UTC Holt 305 with visiting writers can be made online through February 21, • {Laurel Snyder} @ UTC Holt 307 2016 at www.meachamwriters.org/submissions.htm You may attend a group workshop even if you have not submitted 2:00 pm reading @ Chattanooga Theatre Center a manuscript and would like to listen as other participants’ • {Dana Shavin} {Monica Jo Brown} {Carrie Meadows} {Dara Wier} work is discussed. R041032038-001-16 Sybil Baker is the author of The Life Plan, Talismans, and Into This World, which received an Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention and was a finalist for Foreword’s Best Book of the Year Award. A MakeWork Artist Grant recipient, she is Fiction Editor at Drunken Boat. An essay collection as well as a novel titled While You Were Gone are forthcoming from C&R Press. Earl Sherman Braggs is a Herman H. Battle and UC Foundation Professor of English at the University of TN at Chattanooga. His teaching awards include two SGA Outstanding Teaching Awards and a UTNAA Outstanding Professor of the Year Award. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Hat Dancer Blue (winner of the Anhinga Poetry Prize), Younger Than Neil and In Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and Selected. Literary prizes include the Jack Kerouac International Literary Prize, the James Jones Frist Novel Contest (finalist), the Cleveland State Poetry Prize (unable to except because the same manuscript won the Anhinga Prize) and the Goucester County Poetry Prize. His latest collections of poetry are Syntactical Arrangements of a Twisted Wind and Oliver’s Breakfast in America (a book length poetry novella). Monica Jo Brown teaches creative writing workshops in poetry, prose, and novel writing at Chat- tanooga State Community College where she was the advisor of The Phoenix, Chattanooga State’s student literary magazine resurrected after five years of dormancy, and the founding advisor of the Chattanooga State Writer’s Association. This fall, she is launching the pilot series of Ninth Street Workshops, which she founded, and has been selected to read her poetry at The Flannery O’Connor and Other Southern Women Writers conference at Georgia State College and University. She is a 2011 Creative Writing MFA graduate of the University of Oregon where she taught multi-genre creative writing workshops. Before that, she was the Editorial Assistant of Poems & Plays, and has had her poems published in a number of small journals. She has just completed her first poetry collection, Heirloom, in Etowah where she lives with her five-year-old son, Alexander Fox. Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of the book of poetry Fire Road (Dream Horse Press, 2013) and co-translator with Ana Jelnikar of Look Back, Look Ahead, Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Carolina Quarterly, and many other journals. She is currently co-editing with Richard Jackson an anthology of interviews with contemporary Slovenian poets. More at barbarasiegelcarlson.com/ Rebecca Cook is the author of a collection of poetry, I Will Not Give Over (Kelsay Books, 2013), and a novel, Click, (New Rivers Press, 2015). Recent poetry and prose have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Nervous Breakdown, Drunken Boat, Seneca Review, Jubilat, and Map Literary. Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press 2015), Remnants of Pas- sion (Shebooks 2014). Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Sun, Ninth Letter, PANK, and other journals. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is also the prose editor for Stirring: A Literary Collective and the special projects editor for Brevity Magazine. Jeff Hardin is the author of Fall Sanctuary (2004 recipient of the Nicholas Roerich Prize); Notes for a Praise Book; Restoring the Narrative (2015 Donald Justice Poetry Prize); and Small Revo- lution. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, Southwest Review, Poetry Northwest, Pleia- des, New Orleans Review, Florida Review, Tar River Poetry, and others. He is professor of English at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee. Russell Helms has had stories in Sand, Drunken Boat, Litro, Versal, Bewildering Stories, The Moth, and other journals. He writes, designs books, and holds a lectureship in English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Helms holds an MFA in creative writing from Bluegrass Writers Studio and is a graduate of Auburn (history) and Yale (public health). Richard Jackson teaches creative writing, poetry, and humanities at UTC and is a frequent guest lecturer at the MFA writing seminars at Vermont College, University of Iowa Summer Writers’ Festi- val, and the Prague Summer Program. He is the author of fourteen books of poems including Travers- ings, with Robert Vivian (forthcoming in the Spring), Out of Place (Ben Franklin Award), Resonance (2010) (Eric Hoffer Award), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003). He has also published two books of translations, Last Voyage: The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli from Italian (2010) and Alexandar Persolja’s Journey of the Sun from Slovene (2008). He is also the author of two critical books, Acts of Mind: Conversations with American Poets (Choice Award) and Dismantling Time in Contemporary Poetry (Agee Award Winner), and has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry, as well as the journal Poetry Miscellany. His work has been translated into fifteen languages and he has been awarded the Order of Freedom Medal by the President of Slovenia for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans, and has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Witter-Bynner Fellow, NEA fellow, NEH Fellow. In 2009 he won the AWP George Garret National Awar, and has had five Pushcart Prize Poem appearances. Barry Kitterman (MFA, Montana) has published short fiction, nonfiction and poetry in The Carolina Quarterly, The Chariton Review, Flyway, and elsewhere. He has published a novel The Baker’s Boy, and a book of stories, From the San Joaquin, has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at the Hambidge Center in Georgia, and has received grants from the Tennessee Arts Council and the NEA. He teaches at APSU, and is fiction editor of Zone 3 Mag- azine. Carrie Meadows’ (UTC Faculty) poetry, fiction, and hypertext works have appeared in Prairie Schoo- ner, North American Review, Mid-American Review, and other publications. She has worked as a pro- fessional copywriter, proposal writer for a U.S. Department of State contractor, and grant writer for Walker County, Georgia Schools. She is founding director of Story Creators, an afterschool art and literacy program for elementary school children in inner-city Chattanooga with an emphasis on illustration and creative writing. Andrew Najberg (UTC Faculty) is the author of the poetry chapbook Easy to Lose (Finishing Line Press, 2007), and his individual poems and prose have appeared in North American Review, Louis- ville Review, Artful Dodge, Istanbul Review, Yemassee, Nashville Review, Bat City Review, and various other journals and anthologies both on-line and in print. He was a recipient of an AWP Intro award. Chad Prevost writes on cultural topics from parenting to technology, mustaches to video games in places such as Washington Post, Thought Catalog, and The Good Men Project. He is the author of several books of poetry, and his first novel is represented by Orchard Literary. Dana Shavin’s essays have appeared in Oxford American, The Sun, The Writer, Alaska Quarterly Re- view, Fourth Genre, Third Coast, Zone 3, Hawaii Pacific Review, and numerous alternative health, arts, and entertainment newspapers and magazines. She has been a columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 2002, and is the editor of the Chattanooga Jewish Federation newspaper, The Shofar.

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