MSU's Writer-in-Residence, Crystal Wilkinson was the first place winner of the 2008 Denny C. Plattner Award in Poetry from Appalachian Heritage for her poem “Terrain” and is the author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street. Nominated for both the Orange Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she has received recognition from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and is a recipient of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She currently teaches in the BFA in Creative Writing program at Morehead State University. She has also taught in the brief residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University and the MFA in Creative Writing at Indiana University--Bloomington

Sessions
Home and Beyond: Kentuckians Writing About Place
Join Crystal Wilkinson in this session on Kentuckians writing about place. Participants will look at some passages of Kentucky writing about place; discuss the importance of place-based writing; and culminate the session with some writing exercises based on place. A recommended text is Home and Beyond edited by Morris Grubbs.

Writing Workout:
One hour of writing exercises with Crystal Wilkinson

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