Madville showed up in force for the Texas Association of Creative Writers. It is a small conference that’s always a “feel-good” experience–even for first-timers. I laughed the whole time, because there is so much storytelling going on. It happens in the panels, of course, where attendees hear prepared work, whether poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, but the stories flow into the oral tradition when we eat and drink together. And I am really touched that so many Madville authors chose to attend the conference and read their work. Six of them showed up! And all but Steven Moore traveled a very long way to be there. The authors were Steven Moore (The Horizon Never Forgets), Dan Mendoza (Drum the Double Sun–Algoems), Earl Braggs (Obama’s Children), Goutham Rao (Electric Dreams), Bruce Overby (The Cyclone Release), and Amit Verma (A Quiver in the Purlieu, and The Ballads of Niam).
Steven is the current President of TACW, and Dan Mendoza is Vice President. They did a great job. (Previous president, Jill Patterson, is a hard act to follow, and our guys made us proud.)
Look for video of the readings on our YouTube Channel
And this is the URL for our YouTube channel where you will find the videos. We are spacing the publication of the videos out just a little bit on social media so that our audience doesn’t become overwhelmed! That means that we will continue adding videos for a little while, so bookmark the playlist and check back!
One large, messy caption…
I will try to do a mass caption here… Starting from the top left (Correct me if I’ve missed a name, please!): The new guy, whose name I forgot!, Cassy Burleson, Terry Dalrymple, Jill Patterson, Jim Sanderson, Laurie Champion, Kim Davis, and Chris Ellery. Moving clockwise, Daniel Mendoza, then Jim Sanderson, then a panel composed of authors with work in The Sowell Collection (I think!) I’m confused about who is who in this group. Below them, we see Amit Verma, Steven Moore, and Joe Haske having tacos for lunch. Then come Terry Dalrymple and Bruce Overby. Below them is the lovely view from our hotel room window of the lake at Grandbury at sunrise. Continuing clockwise, we come to Goutham Rao, then Cassy Burleson and Scott Yarbrough. The three women to the right of Cassy and Scott are Debbie Williams, Tui Snider, and Robin Carstensen. Above them in the parking lot are Earl Braggs, Steven Moore, Kim Davis, Amit Verma, and Daniel Mendoza. Above that is Earl S. Braggs, and last but not least, we have Steven Moore, his lovely and very efficient TA who’s name I have misplaced, and Amit Verma.
