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Continue to check here for updated virtual SCWA workshops and writing programs that will focus on writing craft and publishing. 

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    • 28 Mar 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Holly Goddard Jones, Caucasian woman

    Join acclaimed author Holly Goddard Jones for a one-hour talk on how to write memorable short stories and novels.

    Jones, who teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, is the author of four books. Including two short story collections, Antipodes and Girl Trouble, and two novels, The Next Time You See Me and The Salt Line, a literary sci-fi/fantasy novel. Publishers Weekly called Salt Line "seamless" and "thrilling."

    Her stories--she received The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Prize for Excellence in Fiction--have appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, and Tin House magazine. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Jones received a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University.

    Her work has won praise from other award-winning Southern authors:

    “Holly Goddard Jones is one of our greatest storytellers—period,” says Florida author David James Poissant. 

    “Holly Goddard Jones writes like a force of nature,” adds Kentucky author Silas House. “Her prose is strong, solid, and full of power. ... “

    • 10 Apr 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Originally from Pennsylvania, Art Turfa has lived with his family in the Midlands of South Carolina since 2005. His roots, along with places where he has lived or traveled, are never far from his mind or poetry. The concept of place occupies an important place in his poetry and literary fiction. Currently retired, he is a Lutheran pastor and a retired Army reservist with veteran status. In addition, he taught English, German, history and religion on the secondary and post-secondary levels. Since 2005 he has been an adjunct instructor for English at Midlands Technical College. Turfa also has been published in U.S. and international print and electronic journals and was in the Top Ten of Pangolin Literary Review 2019 Poetry Prize. His books are: Places and Times (2015, eLectio Publishing), Accents (2017, Amazon KDP), Gemini (2018, Broad River Books), Saluda Reflections (2018, Finishing Line Press), A Village Remembered with artist Carol Worthington-Levy (2019, Amazon KDP) and All in the Family with artist Carol Worthington-Levy (2019/2020).


    • 18 Apr 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Robert Maynor, Caucasian man with hat and beard/moustache

    Join award-winning South Carolina writer Robert Maynor for a one-hour talk on first novels and the South.

    Maynor lives and writes in a patched-up fish camp on the bank of the Edisto River, the longest free-flowing blackwater river in North America. His fiction explores the complexities and contradictions in the contemporary American South.

    Critics call his first novel, The Big Game Is Every Night (Hub City Press, 2023), “a heartfelt story of ambition, family, and frustration.”

    His short stories have appeared in Blood Orange Review, BULL, the Carolina Quarterly, and CRAFT, among other outlets.

    His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he is the past recipient of the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the Coker Fellowship in Fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors.

    • 16 May 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    TPR Managing Editor Andrew Geyer will discuss the 2024 edition of The Petigru Review.

    Geyer is the author, co-author and editor of 11 books, including the novels Dixie Fish and Meeting the Dead and the short story collection Lesser Mountains, winner of the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award Silver Medal for Regional/Southern Fiction. His short stories have won numerous accolades, including two Spur Awards for Best Short Story from the Western Writers of America.  A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the South Carolina Academy of Authors Literary Hall of Fame, Geyer chairs the English Department at USC-Aiken and is the fiction editor at the Concho River Review.

    • 27 Jun 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    • 18 Jul 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Stephen Hundley, Caucasian man with beard and mustache

    Join acclaimed writer Stephen Hundley for a one-hour talk on writing short stories and novels—and adding fantasy and science fiction to traditional Southern stories.

    Hundley is the author of The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press, 2023) and Bomb Island (Hub City Press, 2024), “a funny and fast-paced” novel that is part coming-of-age romance and part thriller, says Hundley’s publisher.

    He is a fiction editor at Driftwood Press and a book review editor at the Southeast Review.

    His stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MA from Clemson and an MFA from the University of Mississippi. He is currently completing a PhD in English at Florida State University.

    Award-winning Southern author Ron Rash calls Hundley’s Bomb Island “a remarkable novel by an immensely talented young writer.”

    • 22 Aug 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    • 21 Nov 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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