Three Emerging Writers Literary Event

Name: Three Emerging Writers Literary Event
Start: 2026-02-09T13:40:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-09T16:30:00-05:00
Location: The Reece Museum

Schedule

Mon Feb 09 2026 at 01:40 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Reece Museum | Johnson City, TN

Mark your calendars for our 2026 spring installment of the Three Emerging Writers series featuring Samantha Edmonds, Jeremy B. Jones, and Maria Zoccola.
Join us Monday, February 9th, at the Reece Museum for a Roundtable Conversation from 1:40-3:00 PM and Reading and Q&A from 3:10-4:30 PM.
Atlas Books will be selling books from each of the authors at the event!
About Edmonds: Samantha Edmonds is the author of the story collection A Preponderance of Starry Beings as well as the chapbooks Pretty to Think So and The Space Poet. Her work appears in The New York Times, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Creative Nonfiction, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She's an Assistant Professor in the creative writing program at Berry College and lives in Rome, Georgia.
About Jones: Jeremy B Jones is the author of the nonfiction book Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries (Blair, 2025) as well as the memoir Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland (Blair, 2014). Bearwallow was named the 2014 Appalachian Book of the Year in nonfiction and awarded gold in the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in memoir. His essays have been published in Oxford American, Garden and Gun, The Bitter Southerner, and Brevity, among others. Jeremy earned his MFA from the University of Iowa and is a professor of English Studies at Western Carolina University, in his native North Carolina. He also serves as the series co-editor for In Place: a literary nonfiction book series from WVU Press.
About Zoccola: Maria Zoccola is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University, and has spent many years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Maria’s work has previously appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection, Helen of Troy, 1993 (Scribner, 2025), earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick.