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Highland Summer Conference: Writers Linda Parsons Marion and Jeff Daniel Marion
Venue: McConnell Library (Radford University), Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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Noted Appalachian authors will present public readings as part of Radford University’s 34th annual Highland Summer Conference, the longest-known credit-based creative writing workshop in the Appalachian region.

Tonight's featured writers are husband and wife Linda Parsons Marion and Jeff Daniel Marion. Linda is the poetry editor of Now & Then magazine, published by the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University. She has received two literary fellowships from the Tennessee Arts Commission (1998-99, 1996-97), two ArtReach Grants from the Knoxville Arts Council (2000-01, 1997-98), the Tennessee Writers Alliance award in poetry (2001, 2000, 1996), the Tennessee Poetry Prize (1995), and the Associated Writing Program’s Intro Award (1990), among others. Marion’s first book of poems, Home Fires, was published by Sow’s Ear Press in 1997. Her column “The Writing Well” appeared regularly in New Millennium Writings from 1995–2000.

She is co-editor of All Around Us: Poems from the Valley (1996) with fellow Guild member Candance W. Reaves. Also with Reaves, in 1996 she conducted and judged the Libba Moore Gray poetry contest, the Guild’s annual poetry competition. Since 1997, she has conducted the contest with her husband, Jeff Daniel Marion.

Jeff Marion has published eight collections of poetry, and his poems have appeared in more than 75 journals and anthologies. “Ebbing & Flowing Springs: New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976-2001? was the winner of the 2003 Independent Publishers Award in Poetry and was named Appalachian Book of the Year by the Appalachian Writers Association. The book was one of three finalists for the Benjamin Franklin Award. His latest collection, “Father,” was awarded the 2009 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Jeff is also the Jack E. Reese Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee Libraries.

The HSC begins Monday, June 6 and continues through Friday, June 19. Readings are at 7:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday of the conference on the third floor of McConnell Library at Radford University.

Admission to the Readings is free. To learn more, e-mail Ruth Derrick at rbderrick@radford.edu or call the Appalachian Regional Studies Center at (540) 831-5366.