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Michael Knight Visits NACC
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Joan Reeves looks on as
Michael Knight signs her book.
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ALABAMA NATIVE, MICHAEL KNIGHT, IS
FEATURED AUTHOR FOR THE ANNUAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES SPEAKER’S
FORUM AT NACC
Northeast Alabama Community College in Rainsville, Alabama, held
its annual Arts and Humanities Speakers Forum on February 15,
2008. Guest speaker was award-winning author Michael Knight, who
addressed a group of over 200 in the college’s Tom Bevill
Lyceum. Following the book signing, a crew from Alabama Public
Television filmed an interview for its award-winning program
Bookmark. The interview was conducted by host, Dr. Don Noble,
and will air during the program’s summer 2008 season.
Knight is the author of two books of short stories—Dogfight and
Other Stories (1998) and Goodnight, Nobody (2004); one novel,
Divining Rod (1998), and his most recent book of two novellas,
The Holiday Season (2007). Knight has received the PEN/Hemingway
citation, the Henfield Foundation Award, the 2005-06 John and
Renee Grisham Emerging Southern Writer, and the Fellowship of
Southern Writers’ New Writing Award. Still in college, Knight
won Playboy magazine’s college fiction contest in 1996. Knight
is included in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops
Anthology (1997), and his stories have appeared in The New
Yorker, The Paris Review, Story, Virginia Quarterly Review,
The
Crescent Review, and Shenadoah.
Knight is a native of Mobile, Alabama, but is currently living
in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he serves as director of the
creative writing program at the University of Tennessee. He
received his bachelor’s degree at Hampden-Sydney College in
Virginia, before earning a master’s degree from the University
of Southern Mississippi and a master of fine arts in creative
writing from the University of Virginia.
Dr. David Campbell, President of NACC, began the Arts and
Humanities Speaker’s Forum in 1994. Since that first year, the
Forum has hosted such writers as Janiesse Ray, Mary Hood, Dori
Sanders, Thomas Cook, Ron Rash, and Jerry Ellis.
This event is offered for the community as well as the students,
faculty, and staff at Northeast.
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Knight's Visit to NACC
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