Reading and Fiction Workshop
Quick Facts:
Who: Cary Holladay
Date: February 12, 2010
Where: Macon Cove Campus, Bert Bornblum Library
What:
Reading, 12:15 p.m., Room 122
Workshop, 1:30 p.m., Room 254
Award-winning novelist and short-story writer Cary Holladay returns to Southwest on Friday, February 12, to offer a reading and fiction workshop. Holladay will read from her work at 12:15 and afterwards will conduct a two-hour workshop beginning at 1:30 p.m. Both the reading and the workshop are free and open to the public. However, advance registration is encouraged for the workshop, which is limited to 20 participants. Faculty are encouraged to bring their classes to the reading, which will be on the Macon Cove campus.
To register for the workshop, please send five to 25 pages of fiction, double-spaced, unsigned, along with a letter that includes your name and contact information to:
Holladay WorkshopWhitehead 23
Southwest Tennessee Community College
5983 Macon Cove
Memphis, TN 38134
Note: The manuscript deadline is January 29.
If you do not wish to workshop your fiction but wish to attend as an auditing participant, please contact Thad Cockrill at 333-4604.
Cary Holladay is First Tennessee Professor of English at the University of Memphis. She is the author of the short story collections The Quick Change Artist, The People Down South, and The Palace of Wasted Footsteps, and the novel Mercury. "Merry Go Sorry," her story based on the "West Memphis Three" trial, was awarded the O. Henry Prize in 1999. Her other awards include The Goodheart Prize (2006), first prize in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open (2006), The Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction (2002), and the Southern Humanities Review Annual Best Story Award (1997).
Also this semester, poet Treasure Williams and author Jerome Wilson will offer readings and workshops. Times, dates, and locations for these events will be announced soon.
The series of workshops is sponsored by Pierian, the college literary society, with support from the Office of Student Activities and Multicultural Affairs.
