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"Tara White" nominated for a Pushcart Prize!

Novels and Stories for Adults by Meredith Sue Willis
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News about Meredith Sue Willis

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New Commentary on Trespassers

Fall 2009: "Tara White" nominated for a Pushcart Prize!

...with my story “The Roy Critchfield Scandals.”We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop Removal is edited by Jason Howard and published by Motes Books.

Short Story "My Most Embarrassing" now online at Two Hawks Quarterly

June 13, 2009 MSW was part of the The SOMe Book Fest, a celebration of local authors and illustrators. SOMe Book Nook is located at 15 Scotland Road inside Sparkhouse Kids, South Orange, NJ 07079. Call 973-821-5227

A new edition of Quilt Piece with a sequence of poems by Jane Wilson Joyce and MSW's story “Family Knots.” It has been out of print for some time, and this new edition is really lovely. Order dirctly from the publisher for $12.50 plus $2.00 to help with postage:GNOMON PRESS, P.O. Box 475 , Frankfort, KY 40602-0475

MSW is a listed contributor in a beautiful hardover book from A& C Black, London, The Bloomsbury Guide to Illustrated Children's Books. She wrote the sections on "Writing Dialogue" and "Avoiding Patronizing the Reader."

MSW's article "Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips" is available online in the Winter 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage.

Prose Narrative class with MSW was featured in Madison/Chatham This Week

MSW story "Tara White was published by Bloodroot Literary Magazine . Read an excerpt here.

Meredith Sue Willis read "My Boy Elroy" from In the Mountains of America at the “Apples for Appalachia” Festival at the Ardsley United Methodist Church, Ardsley, New York on October 17, 2008.

MSW did worshops on "Narration in the Novel" and "Finding Material for Short Stories" at the West Virginia Literary Arts Program in Morgantown, WV on June 21, 2008 in Morgantown, WV. See http://www.wvwriters.org/blog.html (scroll down to entry for June 10).

MSW presented "Writing the Chapter Book for Children" at the North Wildwood Beach Writers Conference, June 5, 2008. See article.

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MSW's Fiction Online

"1969," in Salt River River

"Big Boss is Back" online at Appalachian Heritage, Danny Platner award.

Oradell at Sea, Chapter 3 in Big City Lit

Oradell at Sea, Chapter 9 in Big City Lit

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

"Recessional " at Coelacanth Online Magazine, Fall 2003

"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:

MSW's article "Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips" is available in the Winter 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage.

Lessons to use in the classroom with children.

Online article for writers On Cutting.

Article about writing dialogue called Dialogue: The Spine of Fiction.

Book reviews

Notes on books and reading at Books For Readers. To subscribe, click here.

More MSW Nonfiction Online

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.

Places to go and things to do:

From my archives:
About Literature and the Web
The Heroic Novelists
My Glowing Career

Some of Meredith Sue Willis's Favorite Writers and Other Activists

Interesting and humorous insights into the 'Web: The Journal of Hyperlinked Organization

Reviews with an ethical perspective: The Ethical Culture Review of Books

Upcoming Classes, Publications, Appearances

MSW and Alice Robinson-Gilman present a platform about Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on February 28, 2010, 11:00 a.m.

Reading at Luna Stage on February 28, 2010, 3:00 PM.

Coming in April 2010 from The Writer Magazine : My article "How to Use Film Techniques in Fiction Writing."

Novel Writing 1 at NYU Mondays starting February 8, 2010. Information at Novel I.

Fiction Writing 2 Wednesdays at NYU starting February 17. See Information at Fiction 2 .

Jumpstart Your Novel at NYU Saturday February 27, 2010 (1 day). Information at Jump Start.

Up coming Books: Summer 2010: Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories, Book from Ohio University Press and Ten Strategies to Start Your Novel, Book, from Montemayor Press.

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New Book for Kids Billie of Fish House Lane From Montemayor Press Read a chapter: Click on Catalogue, Literature for Children

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Writers' Websites:

FamilyOriented Websites Ellen Kahaner's Mural class Reading and Traveling with Kids

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Art, Music, Mixed Media, and More! Dory Adams: n this Light Linda Adato Tim Barnwell Appalachian Images Rachel Burgess Charlie Cowger Deep Listening Ann Olson Dee Rimbaud Rochelle Ratner Kevin Scanlon Peter Sciaino Duane Smith Tiny Tim Memorial Web Site Randi Ward Ella Yang

Want some great graphics? http://ann-s-thesia.com/

More Links I Like

Latest News about Meredith Sue Willis

Meredith Sue Willis's upcoming appearances, classes, and publications.

Meredith Sue Willis's Resumé

"Tara White" nominated for a Pushcart Prize!

Novels and Stories for Adults by Meredith Sue Willis (Click on image to learn more about the book)

.

Books for Children and About Writing:

News about Meredith Sue Willis

(Click here for upcoming appearances and classes)

...with my story “The Roy Critchfield Scandals.”We All Live Downstream: Writings About Mountaintop Removal is edited by Jason Howard and published by Motes Books.

Short Story "My Most Embarrassing" now online at Two Hawks Quarterly

June 13, 2009 MSW was part of the The SOMe Book Fest, a celebration of local authors and illustrators. SOMe Book Nook is located at 15 Scotland Road inside Sparkhouse Kids, South Orange, NJ 07079. Call 973-821-5227

MSW's article "Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips" is available online in the Winter 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage.

Prose Narrative class with MSW was featured in Madison/Chatham This Week

MSW story "Tara White was published by Bloodroot Literary Magazine . Read an excerpt here.

Meredith Sue Willis read "My Boy Elroy" from In the Mountains of America at the “Apples for Appalachia” Festival at the Ardsley United Methodist Church, Ardsley, New York on October 17, 2008.

MSW did worshops on "Narration in the Novel" and "Finding Material for Short Stories" at the West Virginia Literary Arts Program in Morgantown, WV on June 21, 2008 in Morgantown, WV. See http://www.wvwriters.org/blog.html (scroll down to entry for June 10).

MSW presented "Writing the Chapter Book for Children" at the North Wildwood Beach Writers Conference, June 5, 2008. See article.

For Older Events Click Here

MSW's Fiction Online

"1969," in Salt River River

"Big Boss is Back" online at Appalachian Heritage, Danny Platner award.

Oradell at Sea, Chapter 3 in Big City Lit

Oradell at Sea, Chapter 9 in Big City Lit

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

"Recessional " at Coelacanth Online Magazine, Fall 2003

"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:

MSW's article "Seduced Into Consciousness: the Art of Jayne Anne Phillips" is available in the Winter 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage.

Lessons to use in the classroom with children.

Online article for writers On Cutting.

Article about writing dialogue called Dialogue: The Spine of Fiction.

Notes on books and reading at 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.

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.

Places to go and things to do:

From my archives: About Literature and the Web The Heroic Novelists My Glowing Career

Some of Meredith Sue Willis's Favorite Writers and Other Activists

Interesting and humorous insights into the 'Web: The Journal of Hyperlinked Organization

Reviews with an ethical perspective: The Ethical Culture Review of Books

Upcoming Classes, Publications, Appearances

MSW and Alice Robinson-Gilman present a platform about Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on February 28, 2010, 11:00 a.m. Reading at Luna Stage on February 28, 2010, 3:00 PM.

Coming in April 2010 from The Writer Magazine : My article "How to Use Film Techniques in Fiction Writing."

Novel Writing 1 at NYU Mondays starting February 8, 2010. Information at Novel I.

Fiction Writing 2 Wednesdays at NYU starting February 17. See Information at Fiction 2 .

2008 Blog
(Blog archives, click here)
Blog Archives 1st half 2006
Blog Archives 2nd half 2006
Blog archives 2005
Blog Archives 2004

New Book for Kids
Billie of Fish House Lane
From Montemayor Press
Read a chapter:
Click on Catalogue,
Literature for Children

A literary Map of
West Virginia!

Literary/Book Review Blogs
Reading Red
Maud Newton
Tayari Jones
Lit mob
Lux Lotus
MediaBistro/Galleycat
My newsletter: Books for Readers

Writers' Links
& Resources

Resources for writers
How Artists Get Paid
Int. Women's Writing Guild
New Publishing Paradigm
Quotations about Writing
Resources for writers
Thunderburst
Edwards Bros. Printers
Things for Writers to Read

FamilyOriented Websites
Ellen Kahaner's Mural class
Reading and Traveling with Kids

More
Jeremy Osner

Art, Music, Mixed Media, and More!
Dory Adams: n this Light
Linda Adato
Tim Barnwell Appalachian Images
Rachel Burgess
Charlie Cowger
Deep Listening
Ann Olson
Dee Rimbaud
Rochelle Ratner
Kevin Scanlon
Peter Sciaino
Duane Smith
Tiny Tim Memorial Web Site
Randi Ward
Ella Yang

Want some great graphics?
http://ann-s-thesia.com/

Meredith Sue Willis's upcoming
appearances, classes, and publications.

Novels and Stories for Adults by Meredith Sue Willis
(Click on image to learn more about the book)

From my archives:
About Literature and the Web
The Heroic Novelists
My Glowing Career

MSW and Alice Robinson-Gilman present a platform about Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County on February 28, 2010, 11:00 a.m.

Reading at Luna Stage on February 28, 2010, 3:00 PM.

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Dwight's House and Other Stories
(Short Stories)

Oradell at Sea
(Novel)

The City Built of Starships
(Science Fiction)

Higher Ground
(Novel-- First book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

Only Great Changes
(Novel-- Second book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

Trespassers
(Novel-- Final book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

A Space Apart
(MSW's First Novel-- reprint edition)

Billie of Fish
House Lane
(Novel for Children )