C.D. Mitchell
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- School: University of Memphis
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- Department: English
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3720 Alumni Ave
Memphis, TN - 38152 - Dates at University of Memphis: December 2004 - May 2013
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Biography
University of Memphis - English
www.cdmitchell.net , Author, "Alligator Stew" ; "God's Naked Will,"
Writing & Editing
CD
Mitchell
United States
My newest story collection, "Alligator Stew," with Southern Yellow Pine Publishing is now ready for preorder at: http://www.syppublishing.com/alligator-stew/ . I am looking forward to working with a professional press!
My debut story collection "God's Naked Will" was released by Bridge Press and is available for order at your favorite indie bookstore or by going to my website www.cdmitchell.net and clicking on the available links. I am also continuing to work with Chicago photographer Jennifer Moore on story/photographic collaborations. I also teach and write fiction and creative nonfiction. I am currently revising a memoir titled "This, Too, is Vanity" and enjoying the extensive research on a new, as yet untitled novel about modern day river boat trafficing on the Mississippi.
I have also been fortunate to work on several collaborative projects with Chicago photographer Jennifer Moore. Ms. Moore and I were paired for a collaboration by the Flying House organization from Chicago. My short story, "Clovis Clementine" and her pictures appeared in the Flying House 2012 anthology along with the work of 5 other paired artists and writers. Jennifer and I have continued to work with our students on collaborations. I put her in contact with Bart Barton of the Writing Our Stories project at the Mount Meigs State Juvenile Detention facility in Montgomery, Alabama. Her photography students in Chicago worked with Professor Barton's students at Mt. Meigs and created collaborations that will be on display at the Alabama state capital during the month of January, 2014. Ms. Moore's students will be traveling to Montgomery for the opening of this display. Although I did not participate directly with this, I have been acknowledged for helping to create this opportunity, and I look forward to continuing to work with Ms. Moore and our students in the future.
Specialties: Editing, Writing, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Law, BBQ, cooking, canning, fishing.
Experience
University of Memphis
Graduate Assistant
Taught Composition, Literature and Creative Writing, Served as an Editor for The Pinch and River City for 3 years, and as managing editor one of those years.
The University of Alabama System
Instructor
I taught advanced, intermediate and introductory courses in creative writing, including fiction and creative nonfiction. In addition I also taught American Lit I and II, English Lit I and II, Composition I and II, Honors classes in American Lit, English Lit and Composition as well as Freshman Learning Community Classes for nursing students, world literature, and technical writing.
Mitchell Editing Services
Mitchell Editing Services
I proof-read and edit manuscripts and suggest revisions for improving the overall quality of the work.
Author, Fiction and Creative nonfiction
God's Naked Will: Stories; This, Too, is Vanity, Memoir
C.D. worked at Author, Fiction and Creative nonfiction as a God's Naked Will: Stories; This, Too, is Vanity, Memoir
Education
The University of Memphis, McNeese State University, The University of Arkansas
MFA in Fiction and Creative nonfiction, Juris Doctorate, BSBA in Finance and Banking
The University of Memphis
MFA
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
Check out my website at cdmitchell.net. It is still under construction, so keep coming back. If something doesn't work, I will be working on it, I promise!University of Memphis
Graduate Assistant
Taught Composition, Literature and Creative Writing, Served as an Editor for The Pinch and River City for 3 years, and as managing editor one of those years.
Publications
God's Naked Will
Burnt Bridge Press: September 2013
This collection of stories resides at the intersection--or collision--of religion and sexuality and the hypocrisy it generates. Here you will find a girl who dreams of being married nude like Adam and Eve, a signed chastity contract, wife-swapping, dope-smoking, a sacred tree, a golden shower tree, a swingers resort, communion crackers made of horny goatweed and Viagara, and a cockfight in the Mexican village of Puerto Moreles, and that is just the first story.
God's Naked Will
Burnt Bridge Press: September 2013
This collection of stories resides at the intersection--or collision--of religion and sexuality and the hypocrisy it generates. Here you will find a girl who dreams of being married nude like Adam and Eve, a signed chastity contract, wife-swapping, dope-smoking, a sacred tree, a golden shower tree, a swingers resort, communion crackers made of horny goatweed and Viagara, and a cockfight in the Mexican village of Puerto Moreles, and that is just the first story.
Alligator Stew
Southern yellow Pine Publishing
Every year it seems another apocalypse is predicted. Every day we hear of the pending global warming disaster. there was Y2K. The next one was the Mayan 2012. Every preacher on television rants and raves about the end of time and the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ. Preacher Harold Camping went so far as to predict the exact day. During the summer of 1990, Iben Browning predicted an apocalyptic earthquake would strike the New Madrid Fault on December 3rd, 1990, devastating the heartland from St. Louis to Memphis. In Delbert, Arkansas, a fictional town along the New Madrid Fault, the people felt other things were more important than an impending apocalypse--like Wink Gaskill's beer permit application for a new local convenience store he was building. Faydeane Gossett stated the community concerns clearly: "If we allow him to sell beer, next thing you know we'll have crack houses, whorehouses and casinos on every street corner." In this story collection, the townspeople barrel towards their date with destiny while dealing with infidelity, lust, sexual and domestic abuse, drug addiction, cancer, family histories, bigotry, murder, ambition, sexual preferences, mental illness, loss, failure, religion, mistakes, local gossip, elections and professional wrestling. Despite Iben Browning's prediction of an apocalyptic earthquake, December 3rd, 1990 came and went without so much as a tremor, and the town folks breathed a collective sigh of relief and went about returning their generators to Sears for a refund, pouring their cache of gasoline into their trucks and ATV's, eating their Vienna Sausages and Spam and dumping stored gallons of water on their front yards and winter greens. They went back to dealing with the every day problems that make a predicted apocalypse seem small in comparison. Facing a once in a lifetime catastrophic event, the residents of Delbert, Arkansas, prove that the truly apocalyptic events are the ones they face every day.
God's Naked Will
Burnt Bridge Press: September 2013
This collection of stories resides at the intersection--or collision--of religion and sexuality and the hypocrisy it generates. Here you will find a girl who dreams of being married nude like Adam and Eve, a signed chastity contract, wife-swapping, dope-smoking, a sacred tree, a golden shower tree, a swingers resort, communion crackers made of horny goatweed and Viagara, and a cockfight in the Mexican village of Puerto Moreles, and that is just the first story.
Alligator Stew
Southern yellow Pine Publishing
Every year it seems another apocalypse is predicted. Every day we hear of the pending global warming disaster. there was Y2K. The next one was the Mayan 2012. Every preacher on television rants and raves about the end of time and the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ. Preacher Harold Camping went so far as to predict the exact day. During the summer of 1990, Iben Browning predicted an apocalyptic earthquake would strike the New Madrid Fault on December 3rd, 1990, devastating the heartland from St. Louis to Memphis. In Delbert, Arkansas, a fictional town along the New Madrid Fault, the people felt other things were more important than an impending apocalypse--like Wink Gaskill's beer permit application for a new local convenience store he was building. Faydeane Gossett stated the community concerns clearly: "If we allow him to sell beer, next thing you know we'll have crack houses, whorehouses and casinos on every street corner." In this story collection, the townspeople barrel towards their date with destiny while dealing with infidelity, lust, sexual and domestic abuse, drug addiction, cancer, family histories, bigotry, murder, ambition, sexual preferences, mental illness, loss, failure, religion, mistakes, local gossip, elections and professional wrestling. Despite Iben Browning's prediction of an apocalyptic earthquake, December 3rd, 1990 came and went without so much as a tremor, and the town folks breathed a collective sigh of relief and went about returning their generators to Sears for a refund, pouring their cache of gasoline into their trucks and ATV's, eating their Vienna Sausages and Spam and dumping stored gallons of water on their front yards and winter greens. They went back to dealing with the every day problems that make a predicted apocalypse seem small in comparison. Facing a once in a lifetime catastrophic event, the residents of Delbert, Arkansas, prove that the truly apocalyptic events are the ones they face every day.
"God's Naked Will"
Burnt Bridge Literary Journal
This is a link to the title story from my debut collection "God's Naked Will."
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