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Article in The Ocean Star of Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey Friday January 20, 2012
Suddenly, in January 2012, my name is up in lights! Or at least in Plastic letters...
January 2012: Workshops with 8th Graders in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
On 1-8-12, MSW gave the platform address at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna As a Political Novel. Here is a "Vimeo" of the talk.
Article in Maplewood Patch, 12-29-11.
Bucknell Magazine calls Re-Visions "highly original."
Meredith Sue Willis's Re-visions was called "an ideal addition to any general community library collection" by the Mid West Book Review in the November 2011 issue.
Excellent Review of Out of the Mountains in the Fall 2011 issue of The Georgia Review.
New review by Ed Davis of MSW's latest book Re-visions in the November 2011 issue of Gently Read Literature.
The Barbara Kingsolver Festival presenters-- Fall 2011 Emory & Henry College. Lleft to right: Linda
Wagner-Martin; MSW; Barbara Kingsolver; Steve Fisher; Sandy Ballard
Review of Re-Visions by Alan Appel (author of Club Revelation and High Holiday Sutra) at Good Reads.
Update on MSW and other past presenters at the WV Book Festival.September 29 - 30, 2011 MSW gave a paper at the Emory & Henry College's 30th Literary Festival celebrating Barbara Kingsolver on Kingsolver's The Lacuna as a political novel.
August 2011 MSW's article on Jump Start Your Novel appeared on Laura Bentley's "Open Mic" blog with Q & A
Article on MSW Presentation at Clarksville Writers Conference MSW presented workshops at the Clarksville Writers Conference July 13-15, 2011, in Clarksville, Tennessee. Photos by Bill Larson of the Clarksville, Tennessee publication Clarksvilleonline.com.
MSW was the keynote speaker as well as giving workshops and a reading at the 33rd annual West Virginia Writers Conference at Cedar Lakes, West Virginia, June 10 - 12, 2011.
MSW, Lee Maynard, and Cat Pleska
Image by Dreama Frisk
Podcast interview with MSW by Eric Fritzius
A radio review of Out of the Mountains by Roberta Schultz aired on an NPR affiliate in Cincinnati (WVXU 91.7 FM) on May 15, 2011. The program was AROUND CINCINNATI at http://www.wvxu.org/schedule/program.asp?id=26 , and the review is here.
Short short Story "Decorations" in Hard Copy Spring 2011 issue of Slab
Flash fiction "Rescue" online at Sleetmagazine.com
Interview with MSW by Fourth Graders in Spring 2011 Issue of The Tuscan Tiger Times from Tuscan School in Maplewood, New Jersey.
MSW workshop "Revising Your Novel" at the NYU Bookstore on April 12, 2011.
March 14, 2011, MSW read from Out of the Mountains at Teachers & Writers with Edith Konecky. Image is of signing books afterward.
New Pages posted a Review of Out of the Mountains on January 19, 2011 that called the book "full of engaging plot and rich characters. Strongly evocative of place. "
In his Fried Chicken and Coffee blog of 1-16-11, Rusty Barnes calls the stories in Out of the Mountains "finely crafted."
The Baton Rouge Advocate reviewed Out of the Mountains January 16, 2011-- said "Pick up this book and read it a story at a time....You won’t be the same after you do."
Did you know? Writers' Digest put MSW's Writing Exercises Page on its list of 101 Best Websites for Writers!
December 4, 2010, Ethical Culture Society of Essex County, Maplewood, New Jersey--Meredith Sue Willis was honored with a book signing and reading-- with West Virginia made wine-- and moonshine.This event was sponsored by 3rd Saturday Arts Night. (Photo of MSW responding during Q & A after reading)
Charleston Gazette review of Out of the Mountains December 3, 2010 by Phyllis Moore.
Out of the Mountains was nominated for a Weatherford Award, the prestigious and long-standing (since 1970) award for Appalachian literature, sponsored by the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College. The website is http://www.berea.edu/appalachiancenter/weatherford/currentwinners.asp
MSW appeared at the Kentucky Book Fair in Frankfort, Kentucky on November 13, 2010
MSW spoke on "Writing Out of the Mountains" at the Annual Authors' Luncheon of the Woman's Club of Little Falls, New Jersey on November 9, 2010.
MSW was a guest blogger on In This Light, writing about
choosing a book cover.
MSW signing books at the October 16, 2010, West Virginia Book Festival at the Civic Center in Charleston, WV. She also gave a workshop on "Ten Strategies to Start Your Novel." (photo by Dory Adams). For a fun live blog of the event (lots of authors, not just MSW!) click here.
Comments on Out of the Mountains at Readin and at In This Lightblogs.
Interview with MSW on Creative Writing Now.
MSW read at Words Bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey on September 24, 2010.
See the article on Maplewood Patch .
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Out of the Mountains Publicity
“Meredith Sue Willis writes sparkling, masterful stories, grounded in the wisdom of place, musical in their voices and cadences, and truly joyful in their understanding of the power of words. Reader, enter in!”
-- Jayne Anne Phillips
Sample Story now available online at"On the Road with C.T. Savage"
Article about MSW in Charleston WV Gazette online.
MSW on She Writes
Interview with MSW by Tricia Idrobo
Commentary on MSW's Marco novesl for Children on Tricia Idrobo's "The Power of Story" Blog
MSW's Fiction Online -- Latest Here
"Rescue" at Sleetmagazine.com , Spring 2011
"1969," in Salt River River
"Big Boss is Back" online at Appalachian Heritage, Danny Platner award.
Dwight's House excerpt at Hamilton Stone Review
"Elvissa Did Not Become a Rabbi," in Kimera.
"Evenings With Dotson", short story from In the Mountains of America.
Higher Ground, excerpt.
"How She Chose the Day," in BigCityLit
"My Boy Elroy" short story from In the Mountains of America.
"My Most Embarrassing" short short at Two Hawks Quarterly
Only Great Changes, excerpt.
"On the Road with C.T. Savage" from Appalachian Heritage, Fall 2009
"On the Road with C.T. Savage" as sample from Out of the Mountains available from Ohio University Press.Oradell at Sea, Chapter 3 in Big City Lit
Oradell at Sea, Chapter 9 in Big City Lit
"Recessional " at Coelacanth Online Magazine, Fall 2003
"Rescue" at Sleetmagazine.com , Spring 2011
"Scheherezade and Dunzyad," April 2005 issue of The Pedestal Magazine
"Tales of the Abstract Expressionists" at Tatlin's Tower.
"Tara White," (excerpt), in Bloodroot Literary Magazine 2009.
"Tara White," (full version as published in Bloodroot Literary Magazine 2009 Read here)
"The Two Lindas" from The Chaffin Journal', 2001 Fiction award.
"Triangulation" from The Saranac Review
Trespassers, excerpt.
MSW's Nonfiction Online:
Guest blog on In This Light, writing about choosing an image for a
book cover.MSW's article "Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips" is available in the Winter 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage.
Article on MSW's relationship to the Sit-ins at Columbia University in 1968.
Lessons to use in the classroom with children.
Improve Your Fiction With Film Techniques from The Writer April 2010.
Online article for writers On Cutting.
Article about writing dialogue called Dialogue: The Spine of Fiction
More on Writing DialogueOn Cutting
Lessons (a series for use in the classroom)
Luis, A True Story (A memoir of teaching)
On WIlliam Styron
Red Rover
Why Public Schools?
Book reviews on various topics, mostly from the Ethical Culture Review of Books and
The New York Times Book Review. MSW's online newsletter on books and reading is Books For Readers. To subscribe, click here.
Articles and Information About MSW Online
There is an interview by Nathan Leslie of Meredith Sue Willis in the Spring 2006 Main Street Rag magazine.
Meredith Sue Willis sends out an occasional newsletter with commentary on old, new, and rediscovered books called Books For Readers. To get the free newsletter, send a blank email to Readerbooks-subscribe@topica.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to Readerbooks-unsubscribe@topica.com. You may also read the newsletter online at Books For Readers.
For reviews of recent MSW books, go to her book page. For a review of MSW's recent short story collection Dwight's House and Other Stories, click here. Another review from the American Book Review can be read here.
From my archives:
About Literature and the Web
The Heroic Novelists
My Glowing CareerObituaries, Favorite Writers, and Other Activists
Interesting and humorous insights into the 'Web: The Journal of Hyperlinked Organization
Upcoming Classes, Publications, Appearances
Spring 2012 MSW is teaching Novel II Advanced Novel Writing and Fiction Writing II at NYU-SCPS .
February 11, 2012 Jump Start Your Novel One Day Workshop
Note: This is a new date-- postponed for weather!
February 18, 2012, Saturday, 7:30 PM. MSW reading and talking about her latest book Re-Visions: Stories from Stories. Third Saturdays Arts Salon, Ethical Culture Society, 516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, NJ.
Thursday, March 15, 2012, 1:00 p.m. MSW will be speaking at the South Orange Public Library Discussion Group at the South Orange, NJ Public Library, 65 Scotland Road, South Orange, New Jersey.
March 31, 2012 Jump Start Your Novel One Day Workshop
MSW's piece on Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna will be appearing in the Spring 2012 issue of The Iron Mountain Review
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Click on the Book or here.Re-visions: Stories from Stories is a collection of spin-offs from myth, fiction, and the Bible. From a new look at Adam and Eve and why they left the Garden to a grown-up Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the confessions of SaintAugustine's concubine- each story offers a gloss on the original as well as insights into how we canlive today.
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