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Arts and Humanities Speaker's Forum to
Feature Author Michael Knight
Alabama native and award-winning novelist and short fiction
writer Michael Knight will be the featured author for the Arts
and Humanities Speaker’s Forum at Northeast Alabama Community
College February 15, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. Knight’s presentation
will be held in the Tom Bevill Lyceum and is free to the public.
A book signing will follow, and copies of Knight’s books will be
available for purchase in the lobby of the Lyceum.
Knight is the author of four books of short fiction—Dogfight
and Other Stories (1998), Divining Rod (1998),
Goodnight, Nobody (2004), and The Holiday Season
(2007).
Knight has received the PEN/Hemingway citation, the Henfield
Foundation Award, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New
Writing Award (1998). Furthermore, he is a Barnes & Noble
Discover Award finalist, and he won Playboy’s 1996
College Fiction Contest. Knight is included in Scribner’s
Best of the Fiction Workshops Anthology (1997), and his
stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Story,
Virginia Quarterly Review, The Crescent Review,
and Shenandoah.
Michael Knight is a native of Mobile, Alabama. He has taught at
Gilman School in Baltimore and Hollins University in Roanoke,
Virginia. He currently is the director of creative writing at
the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
The 2008 Northeast Arts and Humanities Speaker’s Forum is
sponsored by the English and Fine Arts division and the
college’s English honor society, Sigma Kappa Delta. For more
information regarding the Arts and Humanities Speaker’s Forum,
contact Joan Reeves, Chair English and Fine Arts at Northeast
Alabama Community College (extension
347 or reevesj@nacc.edu).
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