Andrew Plattner Reading & Signing!

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TCR Celebrates New Books by Editors Michael Diebert and Louise McKinney!

In Life Outside the Set, Michael Diebert weaves together frayed threads in the tapestry of human experience. Rooted in memory and mind, these poems illustrate frustration with being caught between the Scylla of the hazy wished-for and the Charybdis of the ad-libbed actual, but they also insist on the beautiful and wondrous as, in Robert Frost’s words, a “momentary stay against confusion.” From a variety of viewpoints, with equal doses of puzzlement, wryness, and exhortation, this debut collection re-advances the possibility that beyond the ground-bound and temporary, there might be something better.

Available from Amazon and Sweatshoppe.  

The Woman Who Drank Her Own Reflection is a new title in Guernica  Editions’ Essential Poets series. With this collection Louise McKinney gathers together poems published in a number of North American journals, and which were shortlisted under a different title for the Texas Review’s annual poetry prize. Writes Lawrence Hetrick, author of Derelict Tributaries, “Louise McKinney’s generous poems are all the more interesting for being grounded in a variety of distant places. Yet their landscapes are finally within, spirit being awakened by the poet’s words. These poems offer rare gifts of new language and expansive humanity.”

Available from Guernica,  Amazon.com, Amazon.ca or Amazon.co.uk. McKinney’s first book, New Orleans: A Cultural History, is available from Oxford University Press.

Faculty Poetry Reading Featuring TCR Editors, Thursday at 10:00, Dunwoody Library Lobby!



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Lynn Cullen, Ann Hite, Amanda Kyle Williams Reading & Signing!

Author Podcast: Lynn Cullen, Ann Hite, & Amanda Kyle Williams 

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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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Natasha Trethewey chooses TCR for Library of Congress!

From an article by Beverly James for GPC's In the Loop:

The Chattahoochee Review, Georgia Perimeter College’s literary magazine, is now available at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

According to the magazine’s editor, Anna Schachner, a request came from the current U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway for copies of The Chattahoochee Review to feature in her office at the Library of Congress. “It is one of her favorite literary journals, and Natasha wanted copies to distribute to guests that she receives in her office,” Schachner explains. Tretheway is a resident of Decatur and has been a long-time supporter of Georgia Perimeter’s literary endeavors.

“Having our journal in the Library of Congress is an honor–and a milestone–for The Chattahoochee Review,” said Schachner. “Our editorial staff is so excited and proud to see our journal getting out there in the world and gathering accolades along the way. The Review is indeed growing and growing.”

The Chattahoochee Review has appeared regularly since 1981 and has expanded its focus to include both international readers and writers.

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Author Podcast: Townsend Finalist and Guest Author Daniel Black

Daniel Black Podcast

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Townsend Finalist Daniel Black reading and signing!

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Dr. Lawrence P. Jackson reading and signing My Father's Name, January 22, 11:30, NC 1100 Dunwoody

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Kimberly Brock's The River Witch on Halloween, 1:00, NC 1240 Dunwoody

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WRITING THE VETERAN EXPERIENCE WORKSHOPS

SPRING 2013:
The Chattahoochee Review and GPC’s Military Outreach Center will present the spring semester session of the workshop series “Writing the Veteran Experience” on GPC’s Clarkston Campus, Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 6-8 p.m. in room NLRC-2200.
FALL 2012:
Clarkston Campus, Thursday, October 11, 2012 from 6-8 p.m. in room CA-1500.

Workshops are open to all GPC alumni, faculty, staff, and students. For more information, contact Anna Schachner at 770.274.5479, Alicia Johanneson at 678.891.3275, or Lydia Ship at 678-891-3182.

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WRITING THE VETERAN EXPERIENCE SUMMER WORKSHOP

The Chattahoochee Review and GPC’s Military Outreach Center will present the summer semester session of the workshop series “Writing the Veteran Experience” on GPC’s Dunwoody Campus on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 from 6-8 p.m. in room A-1100.

The workshop is designed for participants to write about their own experiences of military service, or to share stories of the impact on their lives of friends, parents, and grandparents who have served in the United States Armed Forces.

Workshops generally follow a format that includes:

·         small-group breakouts

·         brainstorming exercises

·         professional writing evaluations and discussions

·         short writing assignments

The workshop is open to all GPC alumni, faculty, staff, and students. For more information, contact Anna Schachner at 770.274.5479, Alicia Johanneson at 678.891.3275, or Lydia Ship at 678-891-3182.

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“We. We together. One being. Flow together like water. Till I can’t tell you from me. I drink you. Now. Now.” — Pvt. Jack Bell from the movie The Thin Red Line, which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by James Jones.

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Hooch intern Josh Karl wins an Atlanta Writers Club scholarship!

Congrats, Josh!

Watch him accept the award at the Townsend Prize ceremony.

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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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Editor Emeritus Lawrence Hetrick reviewed favorably

The Florida Book Review features a review of Lawrence Hetrick's Derelict Tributaries. Congrats, Lawrence!

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