KWG Weekly Update

  

 

Open Mic Night Is This Thursday! Be There!    

Daryl Houston Read Last Year

 

Enjoy KWG's annual Open Mic Night on Thursday, July 5, at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Theater! You can listen to local writers read their best work. Or, if you are a KWG member, you can read your own! Come a few minutes early, and you can join on the spot! Click here for dues info.

    Sign-ups at this eagerly anticipated event are first come, first served. A $2 donation is requested at the door. The Laurel Theater is  at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Street in Fort Sanders. The building is handicapped accessible. Additional parking is available at Redeemer Church of Knoxville, 1642 Highland Ave.

    Please note these rules:

• 1) You must be a current member of the Knoxville Writers' Guild. You can join or renew your membership before the readings begin. There will be a sign-up sheet at the door for those taking part. Writers sign up on a first come, first serve basis.
•  What you read should be your own work or that of another KWG member. If it will be the work of another KWG member, you are required to have permission to read his/her work.
•  Your reading time will be three or four minutes maximum, depending on the number of people who sign up. It's not necessary that your reading last the full amount of time allotted. For example, if you have a one-minute poem and don't have anything else you'd like to read, that would be fine.
•  What you read should be suitable for a general audience. In other words, please show courtesy to those attending. Think of approaching your reading as something to be shared and appreciated by one-and-all.
  
  Open mike night is one of the most popular KWG meetings of the year. Arrive early to sign up and ensure a great seat.
  
  
  Please Bring Snacks to Share!  
  At KWG meetings, we enjoy conversation over a range of sweet and salty snacks. If possible, please bring a snack to share at the KWG meeting. Store-bought is great. 

 

Linda Parsons Marion won the 2012 George Scarbrough Award in Poetry, presented at the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, Lincoln Memorial University. In June, she read her poems on WDVX-FM's weekly radio program, "Tennessee Shines." Recent work was published in  Women's ArtsQuarterly Journal and Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts.




 

 

 Enjoy these good photos by Joe Rector of  KWG writers who read their work recently at Ben Atchley Veteran's Home! All read work published in  A Tapestry of Voices: an East Tennessee Anthology. The event was June 27.
Readers were:
-- Joe Rector, local columnist and novelist, who  read his short story, "Cousins" 
-- Judith Duvall, who  read her poem, "City Friends," and  her short story, "Different Rules"  
-- Michael Gill, author of news e-letter "Bluegillz Pond," who read his short essay, "Strange Pigtails"
-- Connie Gordon Green, who read her poems, "Living with Snakes," "Song of the Farmer" and "Pastoral"
    
Also speaking was Jay Searcy, author of "The Last Reunion," about the Oak Ridge Class of 1952 and the history of the Secret City.  The KWG anthology is currently available for purchase at independent bookstores or at www.knoxvillewritersguild.org. Searcy's "The Last Reunion" is available on Amazon. 



 

Life gets busy, and sometimes we forget.  Please update your Guild membership and rejoin your Knoxville-area circle of writers, publishers, poets, and performers. To renew, please visit
http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/orderpaypal.htm

If you are unsure about your membership status, please contact the Guild's Membership Coordinator. Click here.

Disclaimer: As a service to members, KWG shares announcements of literary competitions and publishing opportunities. If you have any questions about the listings, please contact the sponsor. Unless specifically noted, these are not KWG-sponsored projects.

 

 

 To become a Knoxville Writers' Guild member or to renew your membership, go to www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/member.htm.  Membership is $30/year, $15/students.