{"id":3503,"date":"2012-02-16T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.lib.utk.edu\/news\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2012-02-16T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:34:10","slug":"josh-weil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/josh-weil\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Weil at Writers in the Library, Feb. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JoshWeil\"Novelist Josh Weil will read at UT’s Writers in the Library, Monday<\/strong>, February 27<\/strong>, 7:00 p.m.<\/strong>, in the Hodges Library Auditorium.<\/p>\n

Josh Weil was born in the Appalachian Mountains of rural Virginia to which he returned to write the novellas in his first book, The New Valley<\/em>. <\/p>\n

A New York Times<\/em> Editors Choice, The New Valley<\/em> won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters; the New Writers Award from the GLCA; a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation; and was shortlisted for the Library of Virginia’s literary award in fiction. Weil’s other fiction has appeared in such publications as Granta, One Story<\/em> and Agni<\/em>, and he has written non-fiction for The New York Times, Oxford American<\/em>, and Poets & Writers<\/em>. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the Dana Foundation, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, the James Merrill House, and the MacDowell Colony, he has taught at Bowling Green State University as the Distinguished Visiting Writer and been the Tickner Writer-in-Residence at Gilman School. <\/p>\n

Currently living and teaching in Oxford, MS, as the University of Mississippi’s John & Rene Grisham Emerging Southern Writer, he is at work on a novel.<\/p>\n

Read an interview with Josh Weil at Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers and passersby<\/a> (brought to you by Humanities Tennessee).<\/p>\n

Writers in the Library<\/a> is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the UT Department of English. For further information contact Marilyn Kallet, Director, UT Creative Writing Program (mkallet@utk.edu<\/a>), or Jeff Daniel Marion, Writer in Residence, UT Libraries (dannymar@earthlink.net<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novelist Josh Weil will read at UT’s Writers in the Library, Monday, February 27, 7:00 p.m., in the Hodges Library Auditorium. Josh Weil was born in the Appalachian Mountains of rural Virginia to which he returned to write the novellas in his first book, The New Valley. 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