CREATOR - HONORING HISTORIC MISSISSIPPI WRITERS - A HISTORIAL LITERARY EVENT
DOWN SOUTH CREATIVE WRITER
STORYTELLER
HUMORIST
SPEECH WRITER
PLAYWRIGHT/ NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST WORKSHOP FACILITATOR
MEMBER,
MISSISSIPPI ARTIST ROSTER
WELCOME TO LIFE IN THE SOUTH LANE
WITH
ANNIE B. MCKEE
ph: (601) 479-2483
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Annie B. McKee
Creative Writer
Contact information:
(601) 479-2483
BREAKING NEWS
Annie B. McKee has been named to the Mississippi Artist Roster
see:
BREAKING NEWS:
"PETS ACROSS AMERICA"
release date 8/21/2008 - featuring three stories by Annie
B. McKee. A publication in partnership with
American Humane Society.
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Book signings:
November 14 Petco, Meridian Mississippi
November 14 Lauderdale County Animal Shelter
November 15 Meridian Public Library
More Breaking News:
"MURDER AND MADNESS IN BEULAH COUNTY"
by Annie McKee
GCWA Anthology
"Teacakes and Afternoon Tales: New Stories from Mississippi"
Available at Barnes and Noble Books
To Contact Annie B. McKee
Email: ilamckee2@yahoo.com
Welcome to my world...the world of a Mississippi creative writer. In Mississippi we like to think our wonderful habitat is just one block from the Pearly Gates!
CONTACT ANNIE MCKEE AT (601) 479-2483.
Annie McKee is a listed on The Mississippi Arts Commission, Artist Roster. She is a storyteller, free-lance writer, award winning playwright, and newspaper columnist. Recently her short story, Murder and Madness in Beulah County was featured in the Gulf Coast Writers Association anthology, Tea Cakes and Afternoon Tales- New Stories from Mississippi. The next publication including her work, Pets Across America published August 2008 is a nationwide project sponsored, in part by the American Humane Society. She is a weekly contributor for The Meridian Star daily newspaper, and a 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, Women On Writing, and GCWA Magnolia Quarterly. She is a speechwriter with speeches 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 Broadcasting/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. The workshop was taught at The Eudora Welty Library, Jackson Mississippi and The Meridian Activities Center. As a playwright, Annie McKee’s award winning 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 produced by The Tallahatchie River Players, New Albany Mississippi. Annie McKee was selected as one of fifteen applicants, statewide, to participate as part of the first Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education (MAAE) TEACHING ARTIST WORKSHOP which was held on the Ole Miss Campus, Oxford, Mississippi. As professional storytellers, Anne McKee and Sarah Mutziger formed a new group based at Meridian Mississippi. The group named Tall Tales & Recollections Storytellers are affiliated with many storyteller groups in Mississippi and Alabama as well. Katheryn Lewis serves as state storytelling advocate and Diane Williams, a well-known storyteller, offers her support through educational opportunities including storytelling workshops.
MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE
Annie McKee's Mississippi Heritage Program for children has reached students from preschool to upper middle grades in libraries, elementary schools, and Headstart Programs. Annie shares Mississippi's rich history with innovative characters who uplift Mississippi and Mississippians through humor and clever role playing skits.
For booking information, contact Annie McKee at (601) 479-2483 or (601) 681-8525.
| Date: | 9/22/2007 | |
| Time: | 2:00 PM | |
| Location: | Talahatchie RiverFest | |
| Category: | Humor | |
| Summary: | One act drama, "Hoo-Ray for the Chitterlings" placed third in the William Faulkner Writing Competition, New Albany, Mississippi (Faulkner's birthplace) | |
| Details: | One-act drama, "Hoo-Ray for the Chitterlings" is a downhome, feel good, play about southern humor. It will be presented by Tallahatchie River Players at The Magnolia Civic Center Auditorium. Anne McKee was honored at the annual literary awards luncheon held on Friday, September 21 at The Magnolia Civic Center.
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Did you ever stop to think about the minutes of your life? I mean, really think about it? The time that ticks by so quickly...tick...tick...tick.
It's your choice. Use the time to think happy thoughts, plug in laughs and giggles, or...continue the humdrums, watching the clock and wishing your life away, day after day.
I was there, too. Then in January, 2005 I made a decision...read about my decision at www.mississippiwritersguild,com. I closed one door and ten others have opened...I did this through humor. I spend my time on the wonders of life, adding real life experiences, but written in the slant of the delights of our lives ...I hope you will look at some of my work www.themeridianstar.com www.usadeepsouth.com
wow-womenonwriting.com
Come along now, and join me on the March to Happiness...a time to commune with the wonders of the twenty-first century, but not forgetting the lessons from the past.
*****NEXT****
"Friday Morning at the First National Bank"
One Act Drama - Staged at The Roxy, Theatre by The Neshoba County Arts Center
Photo by Melanie Calvert
Friday Morning at the First National Bank
(somewhere in Mississippi)
Setting:
a very busy Friday morning at the First National Bank –
Characters:
Big Momma Burnett elderly, chubby, grandmotherly type lady with a very large handbag and white tennis shoes.
Sonny Burnett: Big Momma’s baby boy, thirty something, loud-mouthed,
and a Take-charge man in overalls.
Miss Jeannie Jones: Bank teller, a single spinster, too precise, too efficient.
Mr. Jerome E. Engleberger: Bank President, handshake like a wet noodle, scared of his
own shadow and wishing he were somewhere else...any where else.
*********NEXT**********
Big Momma and Sonny
On the Campaign Trail -
Stomping for Sillary.
Things are all a stir in
Armadillo County,
Mississippi.
Yes-sir-ree, Miss Sillary is
expected in town for the big
Rally. Sonny and his cousin,
Squirrel, plus help from
Uncle Big'en, have worked
for months and months to
pull off a top-notch and high
class goings-on for Miss
Sillary.
It was first scheduled to take
place at the Tri-County Bowling/Used Tire Center, but
no one was sure of Miss
Sillary's bowling expertice -
mustn't have Miss Sillary
guttering too many balls - that might not go well with all of her constituents.
"Not that she's never been in the gutter,"
sniffed Big Momma.
Just to be sure, Sonny and
Squirrel make the executive
decision to move everything
over to the Dixie Pop-on-Over
Firecracker Tent.
When Sonny leaves to pick
Miss Sillary up at the
Greyhound Bus Plaza is when
it all goes crazy. Norris Earl
shows up with two of his
prize fighting roosters and
The Less-than-Perfect Knife
Throwers plan to present a
knife throwing exhibition that
no one will forget with the
coon-skinners and turkey callers taking front stage
making Miss Sillary wonder
if she's arrived at a rally
or a lunatic convention - but a vote is a vote.
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