On Thursday, April 3, 2025, the Authors Guild of Tennessee will meet at the Faith Lutheran Church in Farragut from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Our featured speaker will be AGT member Kathy Parr. Her talk will be on Writing Historical Fiction.
Kathy taught writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago where she taught First-Year Composition, Media and Professional Writing, and Grammar. In 2021, she and her husband moved to Tellico Village, where she joined the Authors Guild of Tennessee.
Katherine’s historical novel, Eva of the Nation, arose from her dissertation on Eva O’Doherty, a poetess and essayist for Dublin’s literary newspaper. Eva’s writing denounced colonial practices at the time of the Irish famine, joining the Young Ireland group. Eva met and fell in love with another member of Young Ireland who was sent to prison.
Katherine also published a book on writing, Grammar and Style: Navigating the Bewildering World of Writing. Recently, she published a children’s book about her West Highland Terrier, Charlie Bear. She writes as Katherine Kirby Smith (K.K. Smith).
Slide show at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgg61GWV_rk
On Thursday, April 3, 2025, the Authors Guild of Tennessee will
meet at the Faith Lutheran Church in Farragut from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Our featured speaker will be AGT member Kathy Parr. Her talk will be on Writing Historical Fiction.