Annie McKee is a listed on The Mississippi Arts Commission, Artist Roster.  She is a storyteller, free-lance writer, and the Executive Director of the Mississippi Writers Guild, a statewide, nonprofit, support organization for the writers of Mississippi. Recently her short story, Murder and Madness in Beulah County was featured in the anthology, Tea Cakes and Afternnon Tales. The next publication including her work will be published August 2008 and it's entitled, Pets Across America - a nationwide prject sponsored by the American Humane Society.She is a weekly contributor for The Meridian Star daily newspaper, and monthly contributor for Today’s Mississippi Woman Magazine. Her work can be read in Mississippi Magazine, and  several other southern journals, including Oxford So and So.  She is a speechwriter with the most recent speech written for Miss Rodeo Mississippi Foundation and presented during the National Rodeo Queen competition, Las Vegas. She has distinguished herself among the writers selected for The Commentaries Program on Mississippi Public Radio, plus several award winning competitive writings. Annie McKee is the originator of the historic literary event, Honoring Historic Mississippi Writers, and the creator of Friendly Beginnings for New Writers, a workshop geared toward the baby boomer age group, but open to all. This workshop was taught at The Eudora Welty Library, Jackson Mississippi.  As a playwright, Annie McKee’s most recent one-act-drama, Friday Morning at the First National Bank, was staged by the Philadelphia-Neshoba County Arts Council, Philadelphia, MS, March 2007, and, also, The Newton Theatre Company, Newton, MS with the sequel, Hoo-Ray for the Chitterlings, scheduled as an upcoming presentation at the Neshoba County Fair, 26 July 2007, directly following Gov. Barbour’s address. Annie McKee was recently selected as one of the fifteen applicants, statewide, to participate as part of The Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education (MAAE) TEACHING ARTIST WORKSHOP which will be held on the Ole Miss Campus, Oxford, Mississippi.

MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE

Annie McKee and Richelle Putnam's Mississippi Heritage Program for children has reached children from preschool to upper middle grades in libraries and Headstart Programs. Performing as cowpokes, Anne and Richelle share Mississippi's rich history with music and humor, closing each program with a BIG CHEER for MISSISSIPPI.

For booking information, contact Annie McKee at (601) 479-2483 or Richelle Putnam at (601) 880-1089.