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A Community Focus For The Meacham Writers’ Workshop

Gabrielle Bates
Poetry Society of America
Gabrielle Bates

Gabrielle Bates is a writer and visual artist originally from Birmingham.

Her first book - a collection of poems - is “Judas Goat.”

On Saturday, here in Chattanooga, she appears at two events hosted by the Meacham Writers’ Workshop, a biannual series of events for writers supported in part by our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Sybil Baker - a UC Foundation Professor in English / Creative Writing - is the Workshop’s director.

Sybil Baker
Sybil Baker
Sybil Baker

Poet Christian Collier is the inaugural Meacham Fellow.

Christian J. Collier
Christian J. Collier
Christian J. Collier

More about the Meacham online at: utc.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/meachamwriters.

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