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Jamie Quatro is the New York Times Notable author of I Want to Show You More, and of the most recent novel,Two-Step Devil, the winner of the 2024 Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing. Quatro holds an MA in English from the College of William and Mary and an MFA in fiction from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. She teaches in the Sewanee School of Letters MFA program and lives with her family in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Open to the public.
Friday, April 10
Session A
Karen Babine
(Creative Nonfiction)
Session B
Kris Whorton
(Poetry)
Session C
Paul Luikart
(Fiction)
Work in Current Magazine
Third Place Winners Reading
Session A
Alex Quinlan
(Narrative4)
Session B
Edwin Murillo
(Short Stories or Translation–TBD)
Session C
Earl Braggs
(Poetry)
Second Place Winners Reading
Session A
Andrew Najberg
(Fiction/Horror)
Session B
Justin Wymer
(Poetry)
Session C
Jamie Quatro
Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018), and five novels, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011), Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017), Nothing to See Here (Ecco, 2019), a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection, Now is Not the Time to Panic (Ecco, 2022) and Run for the Hills (Ecco, 2025). His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021, as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his sons, Griff and Patch, where he is an Associate Professor in the English & Creative Writing Department at the University of the South.
Open to the public.
Saturday, April 11
Session A
Dana Chavin
(Creative Nonfiction)
Session B
Christian J. Collier
(Poetry)
Session C
Matthew Hubbard
(Fiction/YA)
Session D
Leigh Anne Couch
(Poetry)
First Place Winners Reading
Visiting Writers Reading
Christian Collier, Leigh Anne Couch, and Matthew Hubbard
Open to the public.
