Poets Enjoy SLAM! with David Oates and
Workshops with
Anne Webster!
David Oates has a master’s degree
in fiction writing and has published fiction, nonfiction, humor, and
poetry. He hosted the
Athens SLAM! for six years and has performed
solo and with a slam team. His magazine, Monkey, concentrates on
humor and slam work. Oates is currently the host and producer of the Great
Apes Humor Show on
WUGA, Athens, and teaches creative writing.
Saturday Sessions: SLAM! Dont forget to sign up for the Night Owl SLAM!, too!
Anne Webster has combined a career in nursing and a love
of poetry in her work A History of Nursing, published by Kennesaw
State University Press in September 2008.
Her poems have been widely published in such journals as Rattle:
Poetry for the 21st Century: Tribute to Nurses, The Southern
Poetry Review, The New York Quarterly, Georgia State Literary Review. Her
work appears in the following anthologies: The Ethnic American Woman:
Problems, Protests, Lifestyles, O! Georgia: A Collection of
Georgia’s Most Promising Writers. She has been awarded multiple
residencies at The Hambidge Center for the Arts and The Communications Arts
Institute’s Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow. While a resident at the Writers’
Colony, she has led various writing workshops, including “Writing Your Life,”
which was televised for public TV.
Saturday Sessions: Poetry
Make History With Your Writing!
Judy Geary and Philip Williams will lead workshops on historical fiction Saturday.
Judith Geary has a passion for the details of the daily
life of the people of the ancient world which is fed by her travels and shows
in the veracity of the settings of her fiction and in the activities she
generates for students. Geary teaches
at Appalachian State University and is a free-lance fiction editor and
designer. She helped form High Country Publishers in 2001, and edits for
Ingalls Publishing Group. Her background includes an M.A. in Counselor
Education from George Peabody College and continued graduate work in writing,
editing and literary criticism, as well as involvement in regional writers’
organizations.
Saturday Sessions: Historical
Fiction; Guerilla Marketing; Writing for Young Adults
Philip Lee Williams, journalist, poet, novelist and film
writer, is the author of 13 published books, including nine novels and
three works of non-fiction, and a volume of poetry. His latest book, a
collection of poetry called Elegies for the Water came out on March 1
and a new novel, The Campfire Boys, is due Sept. 1. In 2007, he received the Governor’s Award in
the Humanities from the State of Georgia and was for the second time named
Georgia Author of the Year. In addition, he has produced prize-winning
film documentaries. He is assistant dean for public information in the
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA and is an adjunct professor of
creative writing in the department of English and a member of the graduate
faculty.
Saturday Sessions: Making History: Turning Facts into Fiction;
Literary Fiction