March 3: Author Silas House to visit Linebaugh Library
The author’s visit is being sponsored by The Writer’s Loft, a creative writing certificate program that is part of MTSU’s Division of Continuing Studies and Public Service.
House is the author of two best-selling novels, “Clay’s Quilt” (2001) and “A Parchment of Leaves” (2002). Both books quickly became favorites of book clubs across the nation. His work is known for his lyrical and poignant explorations of human nature and the natural world.
Chosen as one of the South’s “10 emerging writers” by the 2000 Millennium Gathering of Writers at Vanderbilt University, House has gone on to win numerous prizes, including the James Still Award for Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Chaffin Award for Literature, the Kentucky Novel of the Year, and two ForeWord Magazine Bronze Awards for Best Literary Novel.
In 2003, he was chosen as Kentucky’s Favorite Writer in a state-wide poll conducted by Kentucky Monthly magazine and nominated for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize, the William Sayoran International Literary Prize, the SEBA Book of the Year, the AWA Book of the Year, and several other awards. In 2004 he was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes.
House recently completed his third novel, The Coal Tattoo, which will be published this fall. He lives in Eastern Kentucky with his wife and two daughters, where he was born and raised, and has just started his fourth novel.
The Writer’s Loft, an intensive, 18-month program, offers a variety of workshops, one-on-one mentoring, public readings, and panel discussions.
For more information on The Writer’s Loft, contact [email protected] or visit the Web site at www.mtsu.edu/~theloft.