Creative Writing Workshop
A fiction workshop will be facilitated by novelist Margaret Skinner on Friday, November 7, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Honors Office (Parrish 2) on the Macon Cove Campus.
Quick Facts:
Who: Margaret Skinner
What: Fiction Workshop
Where: Macon Cove Parrish 2
Date: November 7, 2008
Time: 10 a.m. to noon
Margaret Skinner is a native Memphian. Her novels, Old Jim Canaan and Molly Flanagan, and the Holy Ghost were published by Algonquin Books. Her short stories have appeared in River City, The Chattahoochee Review, Memphis Magazine, Homeworks: An Anthology of Tennessee Writers, and others. She has served as writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College and twice, also, at the University of Memphis. She has conducted workshops around the South, held fellowships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, and has been a speaker at the Southern Festival of Books. She has recently completed a novel entitled When Love Comes to Town.
How To Participate
The workshop is open to all, including students, faculty, and staff of Southwest, as well as community friends of the College. To register for the workshop, or if you have questions, please call Thad Cockrill, Associate Professor of English, Southwest Tennessee Community College, at (901) 333-4604.
Advance Submission
Please submit a 3 to 5 page draft of a character sketch, a short story, or a novel in progress no later than Oct. 24. Please send the information, along with your name and contact information to:
Creative WritingWhitehead-23
Southwest Tennessee Community College
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN 38134
The information also may be submitted via e-mail, as Microsoft Word attachments. Please include your name and contact information in the e-mail, and send to tcockrill@southwest.tn.edu.
This series is sponsored by Pierian, The College's literary society, with support from Student Activities and the Honors Program.
