Acknowledgements Schedule

Special thanks to Bill Stifler for helping coordinate the Meacham at Thursday, March 19 Chattanooga State, his diligent maintainence of our website, and all his work recording Meacham events. 4:30 Reception for Visiting Authors and Workshop Participants: Location TBA Bill Stifler teaches English, is faculty advisor for The Phoenix, and his poem 7:00 Readings by Carrie Meadows, Earl Braggs, & Susan Gilmore- “Redeeming Time” appeared in the 75th anniversary edition of Science News. Chattanooga State Community College, Health Science He’s been copy editor for Academic Exchange Quarterly and is webmaster for Center (HSC) room 1087 the Meacham. 9:00 Readings by Alex Quinlan and Chad Prevost, & Group Memorial Meacham Writers’ Reading for Recently Passed Authors - Hart Gallery, 110 E. Main St. W o rksho p Friday, March 20 Workshop Director: Richard Jackson Assistant Director: Andrew Najberg 12:00 Readings by Cherie Priest, Andrew Najberg, Tom Balazs,& Kris March 19 - March 21, 2015 Whorton - UTC, University Center: Signal Mountain Room Workshop Coordinators: Earl Braggs, Tom Balazs, 4:30 Reception for Visiting Authors and Workshop Participants: Carrie Meadows Location TBA Chattanooga State: Bill Stifler 7:00 Readings by Seth Michelson, Rick Jackson, and Gaylord Brewer - UTC Student Coordinator: Ann Manning UTC, Assistant Student Coordinator: Tyler Kraha University Center: Raccoon Mountain Room Community Consultant: Bill Teem The Meacham Workshop is free, everyone is welcome to attend, and there is no formal registration. Saturday, March 21 Our Sponsors: Jean Meacham, a former professor widely regarded as one of 10:00 am Sessions with Authors - UTC, Holt Hall. Rooms will be posted. UTC’s finest teachers, gave a generous endowment to UTC in 2:00 pm Readings by Kerry Howley, Terry Hawkins, Erin Tocknell, & memory of her husband, Ellis, a writer and judge. The Meacham Fund Allen Wier - Chattanooga Theater Center, 400 River St. UTC English Department The terms of the bequest, and a tribute to Jean’s extraordinary

Chattanooga State vision, stipulate that the workshop be free and open to the SUBMISSION for seminars: public with no formal registration. She intended the workshop UTC EDD Program Final Day for Submission is March 1st, 2015. Digital submissions of packets UTC Honors to be a place where professional, student, local, and amateur of up to 5 double-spaced pages of prose or 3 poems/3 pages of poetry can writers might freely meet, listen to each other, and help each C & R Press be submitted at http://www.meachamwriters.org/submissions.htm. other improve. Chattanooga Theatre Center Jeanelle Risenberg If you cannot submit online, send 3 copies of up to 5 double-spaced pages of She also intended that the workshop include writers and readers Showtime Events prose or 3 poems/3 pages of poetry in collated packets to Richard Jackson, who could hear first hand some of the best national and Meacham Writer’s Workshop Eng. Dept. 2703, UTC Chattanooga, TN 37403, or international writers. hand deliver to the UTC Eng. Department, 203 Holt Hall. Please make sure all submissions are clearly labeled, and if you are a student, please indicate

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Kerry Howley (UTC Faculty) is the author of the book-length essay Thrown Cherie Priest is the author of 17 books and novellas, including Fathom (Tor, (Sarabande, 2014). Her essays, reviews, and reportage have appeared in 2008), Bloodshot (Bantam Spectra, 2011), Hellbent (Bantam Spectra, 2011), Staff and Visiting Writers Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, The Atlantic, The Wall Street and, most recently, the Philip K. Dick Award nominee Maplecroft (Roc, 2014). Journal, Gulf Coast, Vice.com, and frequently in Bookforum. Her short story, Her novel Boneshaker (Tor, 2009) was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Tom Balazs (UTC Faculty) is the author of Omicron Ceti III (Aqueous Books, “Pretty Citadel” was published in The Paris Review in Fall of 2011. She holds an awards for science fiction and won both a Locus Award and PNBA Award. Her 2012). His fiction has appeared in North American Review, Southern MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was admitted as an Arts Fellow work has been translated into nine languages in eleven countries. Humanities Review, Vermont College 25 Anniversary Fiction, and the Robert and subsequently served as the 2012 Provost’s Visiting Writer in Nonfiction. Olen Butler Prize Anthology 2004. He is winner of the Theodore Christian Alex Quinlan lives in Tallahassee where he is pursuing a PhD in poetry at Hoepfner Award. He teaches at UTC where he is Assistant Department Head Rick Jackson’s (UTC Faculty) twenty books include criticism, anthologies, Florida State University. His poems and nonfiction have appeared in several of the English Department. translations, edited books and 12 books of poems, most recently Out of Place journals, including Bat City Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, OH NO!, Pebble Lake and Retrievals (both 2014) and a translation of Resonance published in Review, Tampa Review and Tusculum Review, where he has been a Earl Braggs (UTC Faculty) is the author of six collections of poetry and a Barcelona (2014). Winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright, Witter Bynner, NEA and contributing editor. Currently, he is the assistant editor of The Southeast chapbook. His latest book is Younger than Neil (Anhinga Press, 2009). Braggs NEH Fellowships, 5 Pushcart Prizes, The AWP George Garrett National Award, Review. is the recipient of the Anhiga Poetry Prize, the Jack Kerouac Literary Prize, the and the Order of Freedom Award from the President of Slovenia, his poems Gloucester Country College Poetry Prize and the Cleveland State Poetry Prize have been translated into 17 languages. He is UTNAA Distinguished Professor Erin E. Tocknell was an award-winning staff reporter for the Columbia Daily (unable to accept because he won the Anhinga Prize the same year with the at UTC. Herald in Columbia, Tenn., and her essays have been published in The same manuscript). His novel, Looking for Jack Kerouac, was a finalist in the Southern Review, Creative Nonfiction, and the Tampa Review. In 2007, she James Jones First Novel Contest. Carrie Meadows’ (UTC Faculty) poetry, fiction, and hypertext works have won an AWP Intro Journals Award for creative nonfiction. Her novel appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Mid-American Review, Confederate Streets won the Social Justice and Equity in Creative Nonfiction Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he and other publications. She has worked as a professional copywriter, proposal Award from Benu Press. founded and for more than 20 years edited the journal Poems & Plays. His writer for a U.S. Department of State contractor, and grant writer for Walker most recent books are a ninth collection of poetry, Country of Ghost (Red County, Georgia Schools. She is founding director of Story Creators, an Allen Wier (UTC Faculty) is the author of the story collection Things About to Hen), and the cookbook-memoir The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire afterschool art and literacy program for elementary school children in Disappear and four novels, Blanco, Departing as Air, A Place for Outlaws and (Stephen F. Austin State UP), both in 2015. inner-city Chattanooga with an emphasis on illustration and creative writing. Tehano. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Five Points, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares and The New York Times. Awards Susan Gregg Gilmore’s first novel, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, Seth Michelson is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor. The include the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, the Robert Penn Warren was a Southern Independent Booksellers’ Alliance (SIBA) 2009 Book Award author of roly poly (Toad Press, 2014), Dreaming in Another Land (Kritya, 2014), Award for Fiction and the University of Tennessee Hodges Chair for Nominee, and her second novel, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove (Shaye Eyes Like Broken Windows (Press 53, 2012), El Ghetto/The Ghetto: A Bilingual Distinguished Teaching. He is the UTC English Department’s 2013-2014 Areheart Books/Crown/2010) was named a 2010 SIBA Summer OKRA Pick. Edition (Point of Contact, 2011), House in a Hurricane (Big Table Publishing, Visiting Scholar. She has written for several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, The 2010), Kaddish for My Unborn Son (Pudding House Publications, 2009), and Christian Science Monitor and the Chattanooga New-Free Press. Maestro of Brutal Splendor (Jeanne Duvall Editions, 2005), He currently resides Kris Whorton’s (UTC Faculty) poetry has appeared in American Muse, in Lexington, Virginia, where he teaches at Washington and Lee University. Facets-magazine, and other publications. Her creative non-fiction has been Terence Hawkins is the author of the novels American Neolithic (C&R Press, anthologized and also appears both weekly and as feature pieces. She is the 2014) and The Rage of Achilles (Casperian Books 2009). His short stories and Andrew Najberg (UTC Faculty) is the author of the poetry chapbook Easy to Chattanooga editor for RootsRated.com. humor have appeared in print in Keyhole and The Binnacle and online at Lose (Finishing Line Press, 2007), and his individual poems and prose have Pindeldyboz, Eclectica, Megaera, Ape Culture, and Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k). He appeared in North American Review, Louisville Review, Artful Dodge, Istanbul is also a contributor to Connecticut Public Radio and the New Haven Register. 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 is the author of White-Feathered Bodies, A Walking Cliche Coins a Phrase, Snapshots of the Perishing World, and Greatest Hits. Prevost is co-founder and Editorial Director of C&R Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing new voices. C&R Press is online at www.crpress.org.