Mr. Lex Williford

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  , Jan. 11: Lex Williford, instructor in the Creative Writing Program at UTEP, will talk about the craft of writing the very short stories known as "flash-fiction."

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  El Paso Writers' League -- The league will host the writing workshop "Very Short Fiction as a Building Block to Larger Fictional Forms" with Lex Wiliford, 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 4, at the Dorris Van Doren Regional Branch Library, 551 Redd Road.Wiliford is author of "McCauley's Thumb" and coeditor of the Scribner "Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction," and teaches bilingual creative writing at UTEP . Admission: $5 (free for league members).Information: 585-0068.
  
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  With Lex Williford he recently edited The Scribner's Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction.He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he teaches at the University of Alabama.Guidelines:

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  Letter of support from Lex Williford, January 25, 1999
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  Lex Williford Asst. Professor of English and Creative Writing University of Alabama

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  Lex Williford, a Texas native, holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas.He is the 1994 Shane Stevens Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers¹ Conference and a recipient of a 1993 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and was also co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for short Fiction for his book, Macauley¹s Thumb.His stories have appeared in many journals.He has received fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, Villa Montalvo, and Yaddo.He is the co-editor of The Scribner Anthology Of Contemporary Short Fiction, and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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  Literature enthusiasts were treated Friday to story telling by Lex Williford, one of the best award-winning authors in their field.
  
  Williford read his fiction in the Charles V. Park Library Baber Room.His reading was presented by the Writers Series of the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences and the English department.
  
  The subject of Williford,s first short story was a fearsome nun named Sister Mary Joseph.The narrator,s attempt at revenge by putting five tacks on the nun,s chair proves unsuccessful when she doesn,t even flinch while sitting down.
  
  ,I,m not anti-Catholic, I,m a recovering Catholic,, Williford said.
  
  A section of a novel he is working on comprised Williford,s second reading.He described a neighborhood girl named Allyn who apparently drowned but returns and can only be seen by the narrator.
  
  English professor Kim Chinquee said she enjoys Williford,s work, which she,s read before.
  
  ,I loved it,, she said. ,I was fighting tears in the last story.All of them, one on top of another, were very good.,
  
  Chinquee said Williford had a good reputation in the literary community.
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  Williford,s final short story was dedicated to his mother.He described it as the first story told from a baby,s point of view.
  
  ,I liked his articulation and his ability to use analogies,, said Clarkston freshman Sandra Russell. ,It gives a clear description of what he,s driving at through his writing.,
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  Williford said he enjoyed visiting CMU for the first time Friday.
  
  ,It has a promising young creative writing faculty and a promising creative writing program,, he said. ,I hope it grows and grows.The people here are really warm, generous people.,
  
  Williford is a teacher in the bilingual writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso.His book ,Macauley,s thumb, was co-winner of the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction in 1993.
  
  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in publications including American Literary Review and Virginia Quarterly Review

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  *Thanks to Lex Williford , UTEP, for informing us about the importance of mojo to good writing.

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  Lex Williford
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  Photo: Lex WillifordLex Williford has been published in numerous publications including Poets & Writers, Shenandoah, and American Literary Review.Author of the book Macauley's Thumb, he also was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction.Lex was a Distinguished Visiting Writer in the MFA program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.He currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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  Featured Artist - Lex Williford
  
  Lex Williford holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas and has taught in the writing programs at Southern Illinois University and the University of Alabama.His book, Macauley's Thumb, was co-winner of the 1993 Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction.
  
  His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in American Literary Review, Fiction, Glimmer Train Stories, Hayen's Ferry Review, Kansas Quarterly, Laurel Review, Natural Bridge, The Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2002, Poets & Writers, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Southwester, Story Quarterly, Tameme, Virginia Quarterly Review and Witness; his stories have been anthologized in W. W. Norton's Flash Fiction, The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000 and The Best of Witness: 1987-2004, The Eloquent Short Story and elsewhere.He has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Blue Mountain Center, the Centrum Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Villa Montalvo, the Wurlitzer Foundation and Yaddo.
  
  He is coeditor, with Michael Martone, of the popular Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction, recently reprinted in hardcover as Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 Short Stories since 1970.A Distinguished Visiting Writer in the MFA program at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, Spring Semester, 2002, he now teaches in the bilingual writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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  Today's exercise is courtesy of Lex Williford, a novelist and short story and screenplay writer based in El Paso, Texas.What makes for what John Gardner calls "the vivid and continuous dream" in fiction?How do you create "film" in the reader's mind?By making even the most seemingly insignificant detail so precise that the reader forgets she's reading.

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