{"id":12334,"date":"2012-08-30T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=12334"},"modified":"2012-08-30T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T07:58:10","slug":"apsu-acuff-chair-of-excellence-holder-for-2012-13-to-be-noted-writer-david-huddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/08\/30\/apsu-acuff-chair-of-excellence-holder-for-2012-13-to-be-noted-writer-david-huddle\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Acuff Chair of Excellence holder for 2012-13 to be Noted Writer David Huddle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Peay State University<\/h2>\n

\"APSUClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Earlier this year, the award-winning writer David Huddle was contacted by Dr. Amy Wright, Austin Peay State University assistant professor of creative writing. Both writers hailed from rural Wythe County, VA, and after a bit of reminiscing about local haunts they both knew, Wright asked Huddle a question.<\/p>\n

How would he, a two-time National Endowment of the Arts fellow and author of more than 17 books of poetry, fiction and essays, like to spend a few months this fall and next spring in Clarksville, working with APSU creative writing students?Huddle, it turns out, had an opening in his scheduled, so beginning this September, he\u2019ll be on campus as the holder of the 2012-13 Acuff Chair of Excellence. In 1985, country-music legend Roy Acuff generously endowed the chair at APSU, which brings nationally acclaimed artists to campus each year to work with students and the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt worked out really well that he can come and spend time here,\u201d Wright said. \u201cWe\u2019re getting him for not just a reading but he\u2019s going to be a visiting writer. He\u2019s going to be here both semesters, visiting with the students, meeting with the grad students, working with them, talking one-on-one about their work. It\u2019s a great opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huddle\u2019s work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper\u2019s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and the Best American Short Stories. A Publisher\u2019s Weekly review of his debut novel, \u201cThe Story of a Million Years,\u201d stated that Huddle\u2019s \u201cview of the human condition brims with wisdom, compassion and a rare grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Noted<\/a>

Noted Writer David Huddle<\/p><\/div>\n

He previously served as distinguished visiting professor of creative writing at Hollins University, which offers one of the country\u2019s premier Master of Fine Arts programs, in addition to being on the faculty of the famed Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.<\/p>\n

But Wright said his resume shouldn\u2019t intimidate students.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s so personable. He\u2019s approachable,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s a regional writer. Even though he lives in Vermont and teaches in Vermont, he\u2019s rooted in Virginia. His images come from there, which is similar culturally and geographically to Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students in Wright\u2019s creative non-fiction class will spend the semester reading Huddle\u2019s \u201cThe Writing Habit,\u201d a collection of essays he published on writing. Fiction author and APSU professor of creative writing Barry Kitterman will assign his students Huddle\u2019s 2011 novel, \u201cNothing Can Make Me Do This.\u201d
\nNoted writer Julia Alvarez said the novel \u201cgives us not just a glimpse, but that rare revelatory and redeeming experience of seeing and becoming\u201d the characters in the book, \u201cwhich is why we read and need novels.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 8:00pm on November 8th, Huddle will read from his poetry on the APSU campus. The event is free and open to the public. In the spring semester, he will deliver another reading from his fiction or non-fiction work.<\/p>\n

For more information on this year\u2019s Acuff Chair of Excellence, contact the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at 931.221.7876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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