Carrie Meadows is the author of Speak, My Tongue (Calypso Editions, 2017), a full- length collection, and the chapbook Slingshot Catapult (Semiperfect Press, 2018). Her poems and short stories have appeared in various journals and other - MEACHAM lications, including Prairie Schooner, The Common, and North American Review. Andrew Najberg is the author of a chapbook of poems Easy to Lose (Finishing Line writers’ workshop Press, 2007) as well as poems and prose published in various other journals and an- thologies. He is a recipient of an AWP Intro award in poetry. March 19–21, 2020 Tracye Pool is a poet, essayist, and short-story writer. Her publications include The Real Skinny: Anorexia in Medieval Saints and Contemporary Women as well as contri- butions to Adobe Abalone, Confection Magazine, and Apollo's Lyre. The Meacham Writers' Workshop is made possible through the Jean and Ellis Mea- cham Professorship assigned to the Director, Richard Jackson, through a fund pro- Alex Quinlan’s poems and nonfiction have appeared in several journals, including vided by Jean Meacham in honor of her husband. The terms of the bequest envision Bat City Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pebble Lake Review, Tampa Review, and Tuscu- a biannual conference/workshop open to the public with no formal registration fees. lum Review, where he has been a contributing editor. For more information see: www.meachamwriters.org.

Catherine Meeks Quinlan earned an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson STAFF College, where she was the 2013-2014 Rona Jaffe fellow. Her fiction and nonfiction Assistant Director: Kris Whorton | Program Assistant: Andrew Najberg | Video: Jeff has appeared in Ecotone, ISLE, and elsewhere. She has served as Writer-in-Residence Hanna | Publicity Designer: Russell Helms | Website: Bill Stifler at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and is a Lecturer in English at UTC. SPONSORS Megan Denton Ray is the author of Mustard, Milk, & Gin—winner of the 2019 New The Meacham Fund, Chattanooga State Community College, UTC English Depart- Southern Voices Poetry Prize. She received her MFA from Purdue University. Her ment, The Moharreri Family, Poetry Miscellany, Private Donors. Special thanks to work has appeared recently or will soon in Poetry, The Sun, Salt Hill Journal, The UTC’s Learning and Leadership Doctoral Program. Adroit Journal, Passages North, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Tennessee. SCHEDULE OF READINGS Kris Whorton’s fiction has appeared most recently in Scarlet Leaf Review, Eunoia Thursday, March 19, Chattanooga State Community College Review, Askew Anthology, and Driftwood Press where she has also been a guest editor. Health Science room 1087 at 7:00 PM Her poetry and creative nonfiction has been anthologized and has also appeared both Earl S. Braggs, Donna Coffey Little, Tom Balàzs, Karen Babine weekly and as feature pieces. * Friday, March 20, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Bill Stifler teaches writing and mythology at Chattanooga State. He has published UC Auditorium at Noon poetry, served as copy editor and served as sponsor of an art and literary publication. Danielle Hanson, Alex Quinlan, Tracye Pool, Catherine Meeks, Russell Helms, Andrew He is also the webmaster for the Meacham Writers’ Workshop. Najberg

SUBMISSIONS Friday, March 20, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga If you would like to have your work looked at in a seminar, the participant submission Raccoon Mountain Room at 7:00 PM deadline is Friday, February 28th, 2020. Submit 3 sample poems or 5 double spaced Rick Jackson, Sybil Baker, Sandy Meek, Tina Mozelle, Carrie Meadows sample pages of prose to meachamwriters.org/submissions.htm. Saturday, March 21, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Derthick 101 at 2:00 PM Katy Yocom, Dana Shavin, Megan Denton Ray, Sarah Einstein, Kris Whorton

SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS: SPECIFIC SESSIONS TO BE ASSIGNED UTC is a comprehensive, community-engaged campus of the UT System. UTC is an EEO/AA/ Saturday, March 21st, 2020 to be held in Brock 202, 205, and 206 Titles VI & IX Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution. VISITING WRITERS a 2019 recipient of the Al Smith Fellowship Award for artistic excellence, Kentucky’s highest honor for an individual artist, and has written for Newsweek, Salon, LitHub, Tina Mozelle Braziel, author of Known by Salt (Anhinga Press) and Rooted by Thirst American Way (the American Airlines magazine), The Louisville Review, and else- (Porkbelly Press), has been awarded the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, an Alabama where. A graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Spalding University, she lives in State Council on the Arts fellowship, an Eco Fellowship with the Magic City Poetry Louisville and serves as associate director of the low-residency graduate programs of Festival, and an artist residency at Hot Springs National Park. She earned her MFA at Spalding’s School of Creative and Professional Writing. the University of Oregon. She directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. UTC FACULTY PARTICIPANTS

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, Karen Babine is the author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017). Her work has appeared (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and the award-winning Water and What We Know: Follow- in over 80 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Geor- ing the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and the winner gia Author of the Year Award. She is poetry editor for Doubleback and is on the of the 2016 Minnesota Award for memoir/creative nonfiction. She also edits staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. She is a UTC grad- Sybil Baker is the author of Immigration Essays, which is UTC’s Read2Achieve uate. Visit daniellejhanson.com. selection for 2018-2019. She is also the author of four works of fiction: The Life Plan, Talismans, Into This World, and, most recently, While You Were Gone. She was award- Donna Coffey Little is a professor of English at Reinhardt University and the found- ed two MakeWork Artist Grants and a 2017 Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the er of Reinhardt’s Etowah Valley Low-Residency MFA. Her chapbook Fire Street was Tennessee Arts Commission. published in 2012. Her creative nonfiction essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Five Points, StorySouth, Tiferet and Georgia Backroads. Her poems have appeared in Thomas Balázs is the author of the short story collection Omicron Ceti III (Aqueous numerous journals including Calyx, The Atlanta Review, and The Florida Review. Her Books, 2012). His fiction has also appeared in Best New American Voices, and the scholarly articles have appeared in many journals, including Women’s Studies, Modern AWP Intro Journals Project Award as well as other publications. He was awarded the Fiction Studies, and Contemporary Women’s Writing. She is writing an environmental Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for best short fiction in 2010. memoir about Pine Log Mountain. Visit www.etowahvalleypilgrimage.com. Earl Sherman Braggs is a UC Foundation and Battle Professor of English at the Sandra Meek has published six books of poems, including Still (Persea, 2020), An University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Braggs is the author of eleven collections of Ecology of Elsewhere, Road Scatter, and the Dorset Prize-winning Biogeography, and poetry. Negro Side of the Moon is his latest. Among his many awards are the Anhinga edited Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad, awarded an Independent Poetry Prize, the Cleveland State Poetry Prize, the Jack Kerouac International Literary Publisher Book Award Gold Medal. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, the Prize, the Knoxville News Sentinel Poetry Award and the County Poetry Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, three Georgia Author Prize. Braggs’ , Looking for Jack Kerouac was a finalist for the James Jones First of the Year awards, and two Peace Corps Writers awards, she is co-founding editor of Novel contest. Ninebark Press, director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, poetry editor of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum, and Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College. Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press, 2015) and Remnants of Passion (Shebooks, 2014). Her essays and short stories have appeared Dana Shavin’s essays have appeared in American, Psychology Today, The Sun, in various journals. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the Bark, The Writer, Fourth Genre, Alaska Quarterly Review, Zone 3, Parade.com, and AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. others. She is a national award-winning columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, where she has been a columnist since 2002, and is the editor of the Chattanooga Russell Helms has had stories in Nowhere Magazine, Whitefish Review, Driftwood Jewish Federation magazine, The Shofar. Her memoir, The Body Tourist, was published Press, Bewildering Stories, Drunken Boat, Sand, and other journals. He holds a lecture- in 2014. She received a MakeWork Literary Arts grant in 2008, and her work has ship in English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His novel, Fade, is from been nominated for inclusion in Best American Essays and for a Pushcart Prize. Visit Unsolicited Press (2019). danashavin.com. Richard Jackson is the author of sixteen books of poems and ten other critical books Katy Yocom’s debut novel, Three Ways to Disappear, won the Siskiyou Prize for New and anthologies. He has been awarded the Order of Freedom Medal by the President of Environmental Literature and was named a Barnes & Noble Top Indie Favorite. She is Slovenia for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans, and has been named a Gug- genheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Witter-Bynner Fellow, NEA Fellow, and NEH Fellow.