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Acknowledgements Schedule Special thanks to Bill Stifler and Bill Teem for helping coordinate Wednesday, March 24th @ Dalton State (Room TBA) the Meacham Workshop at Chattanooga State. 7:OOpm: Richard Jackson, Chad Prevost, Sybil Baker, and students Bill Stifler teaches English and co-sponsors The Phoenix, and his Thursday, March 25th @ Chattanooga State College poem "Redeeming Time" appeared in the 75th anniversary edition of Readings: Health Science Center, Room HSC 1085 Science News. He served as copy editor for Academic Exchange 7:OOpm: Gaylord Brewer, Chad Prevost, Earl Braggs, and Sybil Baker Quarterly and is webmaster for the Meacham Workshop. Reception following the reading: Big River Grille Bill Teem is faculty advisor for The Phoenixand he currently teaches Friday, March 26th @ UTC creative writing, composition, and literature at Chattanooga State. Informal Meetings: Friday morning and afternoon (Room TBA) High School Visits (Room TBA) Writers' Workshop Workshop Director: Richard Jackson Readings: University Center: Raccoon Mountain Room Assistant Director: Sybil Baker 12:OO: Tom Balazs, Sandra Meeks, and Rebecca Cook March 24-27,2010 Editor: Rebecca Cook 2:OOpm: Songwriting workshop (Nathan Bell) - Riverbend Room Workshop Coordinators: Publishing workshop (Marc Fitten) - Heritage Room The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and UTC: Earl Braggs and Tom Balazs 7:OOpm: Dara Wier, Gladys Swan, and Richard Jackson Chattanooga State Community College Chattanooga State: Bill Stifler and Bill Teem Reception following the reading: Stone Cup Coffee House Publication Coordinator: Rowan Johnson Alex Quinlan, Andrew Najberg, Terence Hawkins (fiction), Matt Urmy Student Business Manager: Katie Christie Webmaster: Bill Stifler Saturday Morning, March 27th @ UTC The Meacham Workshop is free, everyone is welcome to UTC Student Coordinator: Trenna Sharpe Seminars at 10:OOam: UTC University Center. Rooms will be posted. attend, and there is no formal registration. More information can be found at: http~hww.meachamwriters.org/ Saturday Afternoon @ Rock Point Books, Downtown Chattanooga Jean Meacham, a former professor widely regarded as one of UTC's finest teachers, gave a generous endowment to The Meacham Twitter feed is: http://twitter.com/Meachamworkshop 2:OOpm: Marc Fitten, Kevin Wilson, and James Tate UTC in memory of her husband, Ellis, a writer and judge. Thanks to our sponsors: Saturday Evening: Party (for workshop participants only): TBA The terms of the bequest, and a tribute to Jean's The Meacham Fund extraordinary vision, stipulate that the workshop be free and Tennessee Arts Commission SUBMISSION for seminars: open to the public with no formal registration. She intended Allied Arts Final day for submission is Friday, March 5th. Digital submissions of the workshop to be a place where professional, student, packets of up to 12 double-spaced pages of prose or 3 poems or 2 song Chattanooga State lyrics can be emailed to [email protected]. local, and amateur writers might freely meet, listen to each UTC Speakers & Special Events other, and help each other improve. UTC English and UTC Honors If you cannot submit online, send 3 copies of up to 12 double-spaced Poetry Miscellany pages of prose or 3 poems in collated packets to Richard Jackson, She also intended that the workshop include writers and Meacham Writer's Workshop Eng. Dept. 2703, UTC Chattanooga, TN readers who could hear firsthand some of the best national 37403, or hand deliver to the UTC English Department, 203 Holt Hall. and international writers. Make sure all submissions are clearly labeled, and if you are a student, the Q~~~*ITy mention your school and your status, e.g. freshman, sophomore, junior. pj allied arts dzaqqi~&ve,/ TENNESSEE ARTS COMMISSION CH~TT~N~~~~ur~o;E&l;g;yt!ve actlonfrltle VI/Title IXISectlon 504lADEAlADA lnstltutlon Rebecca Cook, MFA, Vermont College, writes prose and poetry and White-Feathered Bodies (Q Avenue, 201 O), and Chasing the Gods teaches Western humanities and creative writing at UTC. She has (Pudding House, 2007). Chad's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been Staff and Visiting Writers published in many literary journals including New England Review, included in The Chattahoochee Review, Mid-American Review, Puerto Northwest Review, New Orleans Review, Orchid, Wicked Alice, Midwest Del Sol, The Seattle Review, Sentence and The Southern Review A Sybil Baker, MFA, Vermont College, teaches creative writing, Asian Quarterly, and Margie. She was a Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction Ph.D. from Georgia State's "New South" creative writing program, Chad American and expatriate literature, and Western humanities. She is at the 2009 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and published a chapbook has taught creative writing, composition and literature at Georgia State author of the novel The Life Plan (Casperian Books, 2009). Her fiction of poems, The Terrible Baby, in 2006. Recently, poems from The University, Georgia Perimeter College, Lee University and Dalton State and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, Terrible Baby were translated and are forthcoming in the Romanian College. He is Director and Editor of C&R Press (www.crpress.org). including Transnational Literature, upstreet, and The Writer's Chronicle. literary journals, CONVORBlRl LITERARE and POEZIA, in March 201 0. Before coming to UTC she taught at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Gladys Swan taught for many years at the University of Missouri and Korea, where she won several teaching awards. She was the Grand Marc Fitten was born in Brooklyn in 1974. He spent much of the 1990s Vermont College and has traveled extensively to places that have been Prize winner of the Seoul Essay Contest in 2005. Her linked short story living and traveling in Europe, where he was based in Hungary. He has settings for her stories and paintings. She is the author of numerous collection, Talismans, is forthcoming from C&R Press in Fall 2010. been published in Prairie Schooner, The Louisville Review, and also on books including On the Edge of the Desert, (1979, 1980); Of Memory Esquire.com. He is currently the editor of The Chattahoochee Review, and Desire: Stories, (1989); Do You Believe in Cabeza de Vaca? (1991 ); Thomas Balazs, PhD, University of Chicago, teaches creative writing, Atlanta's oldest literary journal. Valeria's Last Stand, published by Carnival for the Gods, (1986); Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices, (1992); A Western humanities, and literature. He has published fiction in The North Bloomsbury in May 2009, is his first novel. Visit to Strangers, (1996); News from the Volcano, (2000, nominated for American Review, The Southern Humanities Review, The Vermont the PENIFaulkner Award, National Book Critics' Circle Award, and College 25 Anniversary Fiction Anthology and Robert Olen Butler Prize Terence Hawkins was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and he American Book Award); and A Garden Amid Fires, (2007). Anthology 2004, among others. A recipient of a Vermont Studio Center graduated from Yale. His first novel, The Rage ofAchilles, was released fellowship, his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best by Casperian Books in November, 2009. His work has appeared in Poor James Tate teaches at UMass-Amherst and is the author of 15 books of New American Voices, and the AWP lntro Journals Project Award. He Mojo's Almanac(k), Keyhole, Pindeldyboz, Ape Culture, Eclectica, poetry, most recently, The Ghost Soldiers. Worshipful Company of has helped to translate poetry from Hebrew for the poet Ambassador Megaera, the Binnacle, and the New Haven Register. Work has also Fletchers won the National Book Award and Selected Poems won the Reda Monsour and his one act play, Two Virgins, received Honorable appeared on Connecticut Public Radio. Terence is a trial lawyer in Pulitzer Prize and William Carlos Williams Award. Other books include Mention in the Chattanooga Theatre Centre Biennial Festival 2010. Connecticut - see www.terencehawkins.net. Return to the City of White Donkeys, Memoir of the Hawk, Distance from Loved Ones, Constant Defender, and Shroud of the Gnome. He has won Nathan Bell has played at clubs, concert halls, and many premier North Richard Jackson, PhD, Yale, UTNAA Professor, teaches poetry and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, The Wallace Stevens American acoustic music festivals. His songwriting is an amalgamation of humanities at UTC. He is the author of ten books of poems, including Award, The Tanning Prize, and Guggenheim and NEH fellowships. He ideas inspired by writers ranging from Jack London, William Faulkner, Resonance (201O), Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004), Unauthorized has published two books of prose, Dreams of the Robot Dancing Bee Marvin Bell, and Larry Brown. During the '80s Bell shared the stage with Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003), Selected Poems (in and The Route as Briefed, and edited Best American Poetry 1997. His Emmylou Harris, Townes Van Zandt, Kathy Mattea, Mary Chapin Slovene, 1998), and two critical books. Translated into 15 languages, first book, The Lost Pilot, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Carpenter, and Ricky Skaggs. he has won five Pushcart Prizes, been awarded fellowships from In 2001, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA, NEH, and won the Order of Freedom Earl Braggs, MFA, Vermont College, is a UC Foundation Professor, Medal for Humanitarian and literary work in the Balkans. His two Born in New York City, but raised in Music City, Matt Urmy walks in the and teaches creative writing, African-American literature, and Russian translated books are Aleksander Persolja's Journey of the Sun (from footsteps of many traditions, where poetry, music, and the healing arts literature at UTC. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including Slovene) (2007) and Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli are connected. He has two independent album releases, Shadow of a Hat Dancer Blue (winner of the 1992 Anhinga Prize), and In Which (from Italian) (2010). He has also edited a book of poems by lztok Lovely Place and New Season Coming.