Saturday – Sunday, January 13-14, 2024

Mark your calendar for the second weekend in January as Tennessee Mountain Writers present January Jumpstart XXIV in person at the Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge, TN, with tracks in both Poetry and Fiction.

Tennessee Mountain Writers and Poetry Society of Tennessee member Connie Jordan Green will present the Poetry part of the workshop. Darnell Arnoult will present the Fiction part of the workshop.

About Connie Green

Connie is the author of four books of poetry: Slow Children Playing and Regret Comes to Tea, from Finishing Line Press; Household Inventory, winner of the Brick Road Poetry Press 2013 Award; and most recently, Darwin’s Breath from Iris Press. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She belongs to the Tennessee Mountain Writers (Board of Directors), Knoxville Writers’ Guild, Academy of American Poets, and the Authors Guild; she was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the East Tennessee Hall of Fame for Writers, and a Tribute to the Arts Award from the Arts Council of Oak Ridge. She and her husband Richard, a retired engineer, have three children and seven grandchildren.

Details & Registration

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