265 AWARD-WINNING FICTION WRITER DELIVERS FREE PUBLIC READING MARCH 1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 14, 2007
CONTACT: Randal Mackin, 615-904-8155

Tennessee-based Author Will Lecture for Classes, Conduct Open Book Signing

(MURFREESBORO)—Fiction writer William Gay will deliver a free public reading beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the James Union Building’s Hazelwood Dining Hall on the MTSU campus.
A native of Hohenwald, Tenn., Gay is the author of three novels—“The Long Home,” “Provinces of Night” and “Twilight,” the latter of which was released in October 2006—and one collection of short stories titled “I Hate to See
That Evening Sun Go Down.”
Regarding Gay’s literary contributions, Randal Mackin, assistant professor of English at MTSU, said, “His stories have been widely anthologized, including several selections chosen for New Stories from the South, and he has published in the Georgia Review and Missouri Review, among other notable literary magazines.”
A past winner of the William Peden Award and the James Michener Memorial Prize, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Gay will be available for a book signing immediately following his 4:30 p.m. reading, Mackin said.
The author’s upcoming MTSU visit, which will also include a guest lecture by Gay in some of MTSU’s English classes, is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Virginia Peck Foundation Trust.
For more information regarding the March 1 visit by Gay, please contact Mackin at 615-904-8155, or via e-mail at rtmackin@mtsu.edu.



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