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Tennessee Mountain Writers and Tennessee Writers Alliance
present JANUARY JUMPSTART XII |
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| It's never too early...to make your plans to attend January Jumpstart X on January 13-15, 2012, at the Magnuson Hotel (formerly Best Western) in Sweetwater, TN, at exit 60 off I-75. Workshop favorites from the past will lead us at the 12th annual January Jumpstart. Marianne Worthington will be leading the Poetry workshop. Cary Holladay will lead the Fiction workshop. Saturday sessions will run 9:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. and 1:30p.m. - 4:30p.m. and Sunday session 8:30a.m. - 11:30a.m. | |
| Marianne Worthington, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, is a poet and educator living in Whitley County, Kentucky, since 1990. Her poetry chapbook, Larger Bodies Than Mine (Finishing Line Press, 2006), won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year in Poetry Award. She is editor of Motif 1: Writing By Ear, An Anthology of Writings About Music (2009), and Motif 2: Come What May, An Anthology of Writings About Chance (2010) for MotesBooks in Louisville, Kentucky. Worthington is poetry editor for Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine and co-founder and poetry editor for the online literary journal Still: The Journal. She is associate professor of Communication and Journalism at University of the Cumberlands. Worthington's essays, reviews, poetry, and feature articles have been published widely and anthologized most recently in The Sourthern Poetry Anthology: Volume III Contemporary Appalachia, Women.Period, and Cornbread Nation 5. She received the Berea College Appalachian Music Fellowship for 2009, the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council in 2008, and Individual Artist Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women in 2007, and the Denny C. Plattner Award for Nonfiction in 2007. Recently she was awarded the James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry, sponsored by New Southerner magazine. |
 Marianne Worthington |
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Cary Holladay is the author of five volumes of fiction: A Fight in the Doctor's Office (Miami UP 2008), The Quick-Change Artist: Stories (Swallow Press/Ohio UP 2006), Mercury (Shaye Areheart Books/Crown 2002), The Palace of Wasted Footsteps (U Missouri Press 1998), and The People Down South (U of Illinois Press 1989). Her work has appeared numerous times in New Stories From the South: The Year's Best. Her awards include an O. Henry Prize and fellowships from the arts councils of Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. A native of Virginia, Cary Holladay teaches creative writing at the University of Memphis, where she is Associate Professor of English, Director of the River City Writers Series, and a First Tennessee Professor. |
 Cary Holladay |
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This project is funded in part under an agreement with the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Registration Fees:
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TWA or TMW Members: $100
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Non Members: $110
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| Includes coffee, tea, soft drinks, and snacks before the morning sessions and Saturday lunch. | ||
| Meals: | On your own. | |
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Participation Limit:
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20 per workshop | |
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Registration Deadline:
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January 6, 2012 | |
| Room Reservations: | You are responsible for your own reservations. Rates are $39.99 + tax for single or double. Call 423-337-3541 and mention the Tennessee Mountain Writers Workshop. | |
| Additional Information: | Contact Sue Richardson Orr | theorrs@usit.net |