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• Founder & Senior Writer/Editor, TurnStyle Writing, Editing & Publishing Solutions—serious help for serious writers! • Publisher & Editor, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal— • Author, Pink Butterbeans: Stories from the heart of a Southern Woman—50 personal essays • Co-editor, Gathering: Writers of Williamson County—an anthology of fiction and creative nonfiction of 31 Williamson County, Tennessee authors • Editor, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Anthology—a collection of 28 Stories, 28 Poems, 28 Writers •
• Member, Nashville Writers Alliance
• Member & Past-President, Council for the Written Word—literary organization promoting the art of writing in
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Gathering: Writers of Williamson County marks the tenth anniversary of the Council for the Written Word. This eclectic collection features fiction and creative nonfiction of 31 authors, all CWW members and/or Hall of Fame award winners—some famously published, some previously unpublished. CWW was organized in 1999 for the purpose of empowering writers, promoting the art of writing, and preserving the literary heritage of Williamson County, Tennessee. Gathering’s stories range from Civil War to Civil Rights; from a hippie flower-child in olive drab fatigues to a pale-face Indian girl in a chicken-feather band; from a puzzling palsy in a convent to prized contraband in a consignment shop; from a matriarch’s front-porch secrets to a patriarch’s final trip to the filling station; from a sapient farmboy whose sunsets are two cornfields away from his sunrises to a sassy, spiky-heeled senior who trails pickle juice from a diner’s dills stashed in her purse. The stories are rich in qualities readers treasure in the best Southern literature: a sense of character and place; an appreciation of language, humor, and tradition; a love of the land. |
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