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2013 Georgia Women's Conference

Please join The Chattahoochee Review and the GPC Diversity Alliance this Friday, March 22 for the 2013 Georgia Women’s Conference. In keeping with the conference’s theme—The Female Perspective in Scholarship, Art, and Politics—The Chattahoochee Review will spotlight a variety of local women fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and poets.

From 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., the journal hosts The Chattahoochee Review Guest Author Series showcasing the renowned 2012 Townsend Prize for Fiction finalists Lynn Cullen (Reign of Madness), Ann Hite (Ghost on Black Mountain), and Amanda Kyle Williams (The Stranger You Seek). All three writers will read from their works and participate in a panel discussion about writing within their specific genres: historical fiction (Cullen), Southern/regional fiction (Hite), and mystery/detective fiction (Kyle Williams).

From 1:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., The Chattahoochee Review’s Women Writers Panel will feature seven writers from GPC’s faculty and the Atlanta literary scene. The featured panelists from GPC include Lita Hooper-Simanga, Associate Professor of English, whose collection of poems, Thunder in Her Voice: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize; Louise McKinney, Assistant Professor of English, whose first volume of poems, The Woman Who Drank Her Own Reflection, was shortlisted, under a different title, for The Texas Review Press’ annual prize; Anna Schachner, Associate Professor of English and editor of The Chattahoochee Review, who has published many stories and received the Frank O'Connor Award for Fiction and the Southern Women Writers Emerging Fiction Writer award; and Lydia Ship, managing editor of The Chattahoochee Review and winner of the 2012 Matt Clark Prize in Fiction, whose short stories have been widely published and nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize.

The Atlanta writers include Amanda Gable, novelist and educator, whose first book, The Confederate General Rides North, was selected by the Georgia Center for the Book as 1 of 25 Books All Georgians Should Read and garnered her the 2010 Georgia Author of the Year Award; Beth Gylys, poet and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Georgia State University, whose collections of poetry, Spot in the Dark and Bodies that Hum, won the Gerald Cable Poetry Award and The Journal award in poetry presented by Ohio State University, respectively; and Kate Sweeney, radio producer and freelance writer, whose radio stories have won her a number of Associated Press Awards and two Edward R. Murrow Awards, and whose popular bimonthly nonfiction reading series, True Story, was voted a Best Literary Event of 2012 by Atlanta Magazine. Her book American Afterlife is forthcoming from The University of Georgia Press.

Both events hosted by The Chattahoochee Review at the Georgia Women’s Conference will take place in the JCLRC Auditorium (CL-1100/1001) on the Clarkston Campus and will be followed by book sales and signings.

 Registration fees for the 2013 Georgia Women’s Conference are as follows:

• General Admission: $50 per person
• Student Admission (with appropriate I.D. cards) $5 for GPC students; $15 for non-GPC students

To register, go to: https://giving.gpc.edu/sslpage.aspx?pid=455

For more information about the 2013 Georgia Women’s Conference, contact Professors Mike Hall (Michael.Hall@gpc.edu) and Carissa Gray (Carissa.Gray@gpc.edu), and conference organizer, Tiffany Delvalle (Tiffany.Delvalle@gpc.edu)

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 The Chattahoochee Review Guest Author Series was created to connect the strong, vibrant, and diverse literary community The Chattahoochee Review has built over the course of its 33-year publishing history to the college’s EDGE Quality Enhancement Plan such that students will have a greater opportunity to engage with real-world writers who can better shape their writing and understanding of literature in all of its forms.

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Calendar of Events, Spring 2013

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MJCCA Book Festival Partnership! November 18th, 7:30!

Visit MJCCA for more information. We hope to see you there!

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Georgia Literary Festival on Jekyll Island in three weeks!

Come see the Hooch on Jekyll Island November 10th! Natasha Trethewey is the keynote! From the web site:

The 2012 Georgia Literary Festival features an array of free presentations and literary discussions, November 9-10 at the Jekyll Island Convention Center and the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. All featured authors have ties to Georgia and represent some of the literary world's most beloved writers. Over thirty authors will speak on their recent and most-treasured literary pieces.

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The Hooch at DBF's Writers Conference, August 31st, 4-6

The Chattahoochee Review will discuss submissions and contributors during the Decatur Book Festival's Writers Conference at Agnes Scott College,on Friday, August 31st, from 4-6. For more information about our free workshop, and to sign up, visit the Festival's website. We hope to see you there!


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The Hooch at AWP

The Hooch is presenting a panel at AWP 2013 in Boston: "'Because That's the Way It's Always Been Done': When Literary Journals Face Necessary Change."
Date: Saturday, March 9
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Location: Room 207, Hynes Convention Center

Literary journals must respond to changing readerships, budgetary constraints, evolving aesthetics, and limited staffing resources. The Chattahoochee Review, the Missouri Review, the Southern Review, and West Branch editors will address achieved results through editorial restructuring, website redesign, press partnerships, increased print and online content, social media outreach, and digital formatting.

AWP 2012:
Please stop by our table at AWP this year for an exclusive chance to buy one of the few remaining copies of our first issue under new editorship, featuring Natasha Trethewey and Aimee Bender! Also up for grabs, our second issue with a focus on Southern lit. We'd love to meet you!

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Congratulations to our 2012 Townsend Finalists!

The Townsend Prize for Fiction is awarded biennially to the Georgia writer judged to have published the best book-length work of fiction in the previous two years. The prize was founded in 1980 in honor of founding editor of Atlanta Magazine, Jim Townsend. Past recipients include respected Georgia authors Celestine Sibley, Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Ha Jin, and Kathryn Stockett.

Books are brought to our attention through communication from publishers, agents, and in some cases authors themselves. The final nominees are then selected by The Chattahoochee Review and the Georgia Center for the Book. Determination of the winner is carried out by anonymous, independent judges and announced at an awards ceremony. The next Townsend Prize for Fiction will be awarded April 26th, 2012, at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Ann Beattie will give the keynote address.

The 2012 Townsend Prize Finalists:

Daniel Black, Perfect Peace (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Lynn Cullen, Reign of Madness (Putnam Adult)

Ann Hite, Ghost on Black Mountain (Gallery Books)

Joshilyn Jackson, Backseat Saints (Grand Central Publishing)

Collin Kelley, Remain in Light (Vanilla Heart Publishing)

Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (Random House)

Andrew Plattner, A Marriage of Convenience (BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City)

Josh Russell, My Bright Midnight (Louisiana State University Press)

Joseph Skibell, A Curable Romantic (Algonquin Books)

Amanda Kyle Williams, The Stranger You Seek (Bantam)

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2012 AWP Annual Conference, Chicago, March 1st-3rd

The first, double-issue under new editorship is sold out - except to AWP attendees! Join us during the first weekend in March at AWP's bookfair, where The Chattahoochee Review will be selling discounted subscriptions as well as all of the issues under new editorship, including the latest, our Southern Lit issue.

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2011 Other Words Conference, St. Augustine, November 10th-12th

The Hooch will be in St. Augustine next week for panel discussions, readings, and promotion of our new issue, the best yet! We invite you to stop by our booth and pick up a copy. 

Learn more about the Other Words conference.

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Decatur Book Festival, September 3rd-4th

The Chattahoochee Review will have a booth at the annual Decatur Book Festival on Saturday and Sunday of the first weekend in September. We will offer discount subscriptions and back issues along with the new issue under new editorship, which features Aimee Bender, Natasha Trethewey, and Wells Tower. We hope you'll stop by and say hello!

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