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Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference is in Oak Ridge in April

Posted at 7:22 am March 21, 2019
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Tennessee Mountain Writers will celebrate their 31st Annual Conference with the theme “Just Write” from Thursday, April 4, to Saturday, April 6.

The conference will be at the DoubleTree Hotel in Oak Ridge. It will include workshops, writing contests, networking, manuscript evaluations, publishers, editors, book signings, a bookstore, vendors, and more, a press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Entertainment, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Top Stories, Writing Tagged With: Abigail DeWitt, bookstore, fiction, Judy Goldman, memoir, National Endowment for the Arts, nonfiction, poetry, Richard Hague, Stacy McAnulty, Tennessee Arts Commission, Tennessee Mountain Writers, writing

Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference starts tonight, continues through Saturday

Posted at 10:12 am April 5, 2018
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Image by Tennessee Mountain Writers

Image by Tennessee Mountain Writers

 

Tennessee Mountain Writers will celebrate its 30th Annual Conference with the theme “No Grit, No Pearl” on Thursday through Saturday, April 5-7, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Oak Ridge. The conference will include workshops, writing contests, networking, manuscript evaluations, publishers, editors, book signings, a bookstore, vendors, and more, a press release said.

Marilyn Kallet will lead the Poetry workshops and will be the keynote speaker at the awards banquet, the concluding event of the conference, the press release said. Kallet, Nancy Moore Goslee Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has published 17 books, including “The Love That Moves Me,” poetry from Black Widow Press (2013), and “How Our Bodies Learned,” lyric poetry from Black Widow Press (January 2018). She teaches poetry workshops each spring in Auvillar, France, for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, at their French studio. She has performed her poems on campuses and in theaters across the United States, as well as in France and Poland as a guest of the U.S. Embassy. The University of Tennessee lists her as a specialist in poetry and dreams, poetry and healing, and poetry’s role in times of crisis.

Kelly O’Connor McNees will lead the Writing for Young People workshops and will be the General Session speaker. McNees is the author of “The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott,” “The Island of Doves,” and “In Need of a Good Wife,” a finalist for the 2013 Willa Award. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post and The Toast, and is forthcoming in the Chicago Anthology, the press release said. She is the recipient of the 2017 Meg Medina Artist-in-Residency Scholarship from the Highlights Foundation. She runs Word Bird Editorial Services, which helps writers of all stripes improve their craft and prepare their work for publication, and speaks at libraries, conferences, and book clubs. Born and raised in Michigan, she lives in Chicago with her family. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Entertainment, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Writing Tagged With: Christopher Martin, Kelly O’Connor McNees, Marilyn Kallett, National Endowment for the Arts, Pamela Schoenewaldt, Tennessee Arts Commission, Tennessee Mountain Writers, Tennessee Mountain Writers conference, writers conference

Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference set for April 6-8

Posted at 11:03 pm March 18, 2017
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Carol Aebersold, keynote speaker at the awards banquet, native Oak Ridger, and author of "The Elf on the Shelf." (Submitted photo)

Carol Aebersold, native Oak Ridger, and author of “The Elf on the Shelf.” (Submitted photo)

“Write Here, Write Now” is the theme of the Tennessee Mountain Writers’ 29th Annual Conference, scheduled Thursday through Saturday, April 6-8, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Oak Ridge.

The conference will include writing contests, workshops, networking, manuscript evaluations, publishers, editors, book signings, a bookstore, vendors, and more, a press release said.

Native Oak Ridger Carol Aebersold will be the keynote speaker at the awards banquet, the concluding event of the conference. Aebersold is the award-winning co-author of the acclaimed book “The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition,” as well as several board books.

Aebersold serves as a spokeswoman for the North Pole, traveling nationally—and sometimes internationally—in support of her books, providing kids with a direct line to Santa, the press release said. She is also a co-founder of The Elf on the Shelf’s publishing company, Creatively Classic Activities and Books (CCA and B, LLC), where she serves as owner and partner. Her book “The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition” has been on the best-seller lists of USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly almost yearly since its 2005 launch. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Entertainment, Front Page News, Top Stories, Writing Tagged With: Alicia Clancy, Beverly Connor, Carol Aebersold, Debbie Dadey, DoubleTree Hotel, Elf on the Shelf, Gloria Ballard, Jesse van Eerden, Kory Wells, Marianne Worthington, National Endowment for the Arts, Robert Gipe, Susan Gregg Gilmore, Tennessee Arts Commission, Tennessee Mountain Writers, Tennessee Mountain Writers conference, Victoria Hubbell, writers conference, writing

Area lawmakers announce $72,190 in arts grants in Anderson County

Posted at 12:04 am June 15, 2016
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Tennessee lawmakers announced this month that six arts grants worth a total of $73,010 have been awarded to five organizations in Anderson County.

The grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission include two awards with a combined total of $18,600 for the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge in the categories of Arts Education-Community Learning and Partnership Support.

Other grants include $23,110 to the Oak Ridge Community Playhouse in the category of Partnership Support, $16,900 to the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association in the category of Partnership Support, $11,620 to the Oak Ridge Community Art Center in the category of Partnership Support, and $2,780 to the Tennessee Mountain Writers in the category of Art Project Support. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Arts, Community, Entertainment, Front Page News, Government, Music, Nonprofits, State, Theater, Writing Tagged With: Anderson County, Ann Pope, arts grants, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Dennis Powers, John Ragan, Ken Yager, Kent Calfee, National Endowment for the Arts, Oak Ridge Civic Music Association, Oak Ridge Community Art Center, Oak Ridge Community Playhouse, Randy McNally, Tennessee Arts Commission, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Mountain Writers

Area lawmakers announce $72,190 in Anderson County arts grants

Posted at 11:59 am June 27, 2015
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Tennessee legislators announced Friday that seven arts grants worth $72,190 have been awarded to six organizations in Anderson County.

The recipients include the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Community Playhouse, Oak Ridge Civic Music Association, Oak Ridge Community Art Center, Tennessee Mountain Writers, and Appalachian Arts Craft Center.

The grants include two grants with a combined total of $20,800 for the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge in the categories of Arts Education-Community Learning and Partnership Support.

The other grants include: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Arts, Community, Entertainment, Front Page News, Government, Music, Nonprofits, State, Theater, Writing Tagged With: Anne Pope, Appalachian Arts Craft Center, arts grants, Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Dennis Powers, grants, John Ragan, Ken Yager, Kent Calfee, National Endowment for the Arts, Oak Ridge Civic Music Association, Oak Ridge Community Art Center, Oak Ridge Community Playhouse, Randy McNally, specialty license plates, Tennessee Art Commission, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Mountain Writers

TN Mountain Writers’ conference in Oak Ridge in April

Posted at 1:43 pm March 18, 2014
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The Tennessee Mountain Writers’ 26th Annual Conference, scheduled Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5, will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Oak Ridge. The conference will include writing contests, workshops, networking, manuscript evaluations, publishers, editors, book signings, a bookstore, vendors, and more.

The conference, which is funded in part under an agreement with the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, will kick off with a 6 p.m. reception on Thursday, April 3. Conference sessions will be held from 9 a.m. through 5:15 p.m. Friday, and from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Saturday, followed by the banquet on Saturday evening.  The Writer’s Block, a bookstore featuring works published by workshop leaders and conference participants, will be open all day Friday and on Saturday morning.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Nonprofits, Writing Tagged With: book signings, bookstore, Carol Grametbauer, conference, Crystal Wilkinson, editors, Helen Hemphill, Joseph Bathanti, Kate Larken, manuscript evaluations, Melanie Harless, National Endowment for the Arts, networking, publishers, Scott Huler, Tennessee Arts Commission, Tennessee Mountain Writers conference, workshops, writers, writers conference, writing contests

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