Acknowledgements Special Thanks to Bill Stifler and Bill Teem for helping coordinate the Meacham at Chattanooga State.

Bill Stifler teaches English, is faculty advisor for The Phoenix, and his poem "Redeeming Time" appeared in the 75th anniversary edition of Science News. He's been copy editor for Academic Exchange Quarterly and is web master for the Meacham.

Bill Teem is currently teaching creative writing, composition, and literature at Chattanooga State and co-sponsors The Phoenix.

Workshop Director: Richard Jackson Assistant Directors: Andrew Najberg and Earl Braggs

Workshop Organizers: Tom Balazs and Carrie Meadows Sybil Baker Hong Kong Program Coordinator:

Chattanooga State: UTC Student Coordinator:

Bill Stifter and Bill Teem Spencer Connell

Assistant Student Coordinator: Ann Carroll Manning

Publication Consultant: Rowan Johnson

Our Sponsors:

The Meacham Fund UTC English Department

Chattanooga State UTC EDD Program

UTC Honors C & R Press

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Schedule Thursday, October 30

7:00 Readings by Jeremy Jones, Cynthia Anderson, & Kerry Howley­Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Health Science Center (HSC) room 1085

9:00 Readings by Andrew Najberg, Carrie Meadows, Chad Prevost, & William Wilkinson- Hart Gallery 110 E. Main St.

Friday, October 31

12:00 Readings by Kris Whorten, Melanie Jordan, & Tom Balazs -UTC, University Center: Raccoon Mountain Room

7:00 Readings by Allen Wier, Bill Rasmovicz, Ira Sukrungruang, & Rick Jackson- UTC, University Center: Raccoon Mountain Room

Saturday, November 1

10:00 am Workshops- UTC, Holt Hall. Rooms will be posted.

2:00 pm Readings by Bruce Bond, Sean Lovelace, & Richard Katrovas -Chattanooga Theater Center, 400 River St.

SUBMISSION for seminars: Final Day for Submission is Oct. 15th. Digital submissions of packets of up to 12 double-spaced pages of prose or 3 poems can be emailed to meachamsubmissions@yahoo.com.

If you cannot submit online, send 3 copies of up to 12 double-spaced pages of prose or 3 poems in collated packets to Richard Jackson, Meacham Writer 's Workshop Eng. Dept. 2703, UTC Chattanooga, TN 37403, or hand deliver to the UTC Eng. Department, 203 Holt Hall. Please make sure all submissions are clearly labeled, and if you are a student, please indicate where you go to school and your status, e.g. freshman, sophomore, junior.

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Meacham Writers' Workshop

October 30- November 7, 2014

The Meacham Workshop is free, everyone is welcome to attend, and there is no formal registration.

Jean Meacham, a former professor widely regarded as one of UTC's finest teachers, gave a generous endowment to UTC in memory of her husband, Ellis, a writer and judge.

The terms of the bequest, and a tribute to Jean's extraordinary vision, stipulate that the workshop be free and open to the public with no formal registration. She intended

the workshop to be a place where professional, student, local, and amateur writers might freely.meet, listen to each

other, and help each other Improve.

She also intended that the workshop include writers and readers who could hear first hand some of the best national

and international writers.

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Staff and Visiting Writers CB Anderson (cbanderson.net) is a cross-genre writer who teaches at Boston University. Her short-story collection River Talk was released in 2014 from C&R Press. Winner of numerous prizes, including the New Millennium Awardand the Mark Twain Award, Anderson has published work in The Christian Science Monitor, Red book, Boston Magazine, Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton & Co.), The Iowa Review, North American Review, and elsewhere.

Thomas Balazs is the author of Omicron Ceti Ill. His fiction has appeared in North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Vermont College 25 Anniversary Fiction, and the Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology 2004. He is winner of the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award. He teaches at UTC where he is Assistant Department Head ofthe English Department.

Bruce Bond's nine books include Choir of the Wells: A Tetralogy (Etruscan, 2013), The Visible (LSU, 2012). and the forthcoming: The Other Sky(Etruscan), For the Lost Cathedral (LSU Press), Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (U. of Michigan), and Metaphysics of the Literal Heart (Orison Books). Winner of theAIIen Tate Toulouse Scholars, UNT Foundation Eminent Faculty Awards, NEA and the Texas lnst. for the Arts fellowships, he is a Regents Professor of English at the U. of North Texas and Poetry Editor for American Literary Review.

Kerry Howley's essays, short stories, and reportage have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Gulf Coast, Vice. com, and frequently in Bookforum. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, where she an Arts Fellow and served as the 2012 Provost's Visiting Writer in Nonfiction. Her book-length essay Thrown is forthcoming. She teaches at UTC.

Richard Jackson's twenty books include criticism, anthologies, translations, edited books and 12 books of poems, most recently Out of Place and Retrievals (both 2014) and a translation of Resonance published in Barcelona (2014). Winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright, Witter Bynner, NEA and NEH Fellowships, 5 Pushcart Prizes, The AWP George Garrett National Award, and the Order of Freedom Award from the President of Slovenia, his poems have been translated into 161anguages. He is UTNAA Distinguished Professor at UTC.

Jeremy B. Jones is the author of Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland. His essays have been named Notable in Best American Essays and appear or are forthcoming in Oxford American, Brevity, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. He earned his MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa and teaches at Western Carolina University.

Melanie Jordan 's is the author ofHallelujah for the Ghosties (forthcoming, Sundress Press 2015) and the chapbook, Ghost Season. Before receiving her MFA at Southern Illinois Carbondale and her doctorate at U. of Houston, she studied at UTC. Sheteaches at the University of West Georgia, and her work has appeared in Iowa Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Third Coast, Southeast Review, Diagram, Black Warrior Review, and others.

Richard Katrovas is founding director of the Prague Summer Programs at University of New Orleans and later Western Michigan University, and author of 7 books of poems including Prague Winter (2004) and Scorpio Rising (2011 ); two memoirs, The Republic of Burma Shave (2001) and The Years of Smashing Bricks (2007); two novels, The Mystic Pig (2008) and Confessions of a Waiter, and a book of short stories Prague USA (1996), He is the editor of editor of the anthology The New Orleans Review-- Ten Years Later. Katrovas' awards include Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships.

Sean Lovelace authored How Some People Like Their Eggs (Third Annual Rose Metal Press Short Short Contest Winner), Fog Gorgeous Stag (Publishing Genius Press, 2011 ), and a chapbook within They Could No Longer Contain Themselves (Rose Metal Press, 2011 ). His individual works appeared in Huffington Post, Hayden's Ferry Review and Crazyhorse. A two time Pushcart nominee selected for Dzanc Best of the Web and wig leaf's top 50, Lovelace teaches at Ball State University and writesfor HTMLGiant andseanlovelace.com.

Andrew Najberg is the author of the chapbook Easy to Lose (Finishing Line Press, 2007), and his individual works have appeared in North American Review, Artful Dodge, Nashville Review, Louisville Review, Bat City Review, Istanbul Review, and other journals and anthologies.

Carrie Meadows is winner of the Academy of American Poets Poetry Society of Virginia Prize and a Hambidge fellow. Her poetry, fiction, and hypertext works have appeared in North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, and other publications.

Chad Prevost is the author of White-Feathered Bodies, A Walking Cliche Coins a Phrase, Snapshots of the Perishing World, and Greatest Hits. Prevost is co-founder and Editorial Director of C&R Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing new voices. C&R Press is online at www.crpress.org.

Bill Rasmovicz is a Pharamacist in NYC. His books include The World in Place ofltself(AiiceJames Books, 2007), GrossArdor(42 Miles Press, 2013) and ldiopaths (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). His poems appear in Hotel Am erika, Nimrod, Mid American review, Third Coast and other journals. He has served as a workshop leader and literary excursion leader throughout much of Europe. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ira Sukrungruang, authored the memoir Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night, co-edited What Are You Looking At: The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology(Harcourt Brace), andhis work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, The Bellingham Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. He received the New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellowship, Just Desserts Fiction Prize, and an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award.

Allen Wier is the author of the story collection Things About to Disappear and four novels, Blanco, Departing as Air, A Place for Outlaws and Tehano. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Five Points, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares and The New York Times. Awards include the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction and the University ofTennessee Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching. He is the UTC English Department's 2013-2014 Visiting Scholar.

Kris Whorton teaches English at UTC. Her poetry has appeared in American Muse, Facets-magazine, and other publications. Her creative non-fiction has been anthologized and also appears both weekly and as feature pieces. She is the Chattanooga editor for RootsRated.com.

Will Wilkinson is an MFA student at the University of Houston. His essays and commentary have appeared in The Atlantic, The Economist, The Boston Review, Pacific Standard, Forbes, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, Slate, Prospect, and other publications online and off. He is an assistant non-fiction editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, hosts a show about new fiction and non-fiction on Bloggingheads TV, writes for The Economist, and teaches at the UT Chattanooga.