Free-lance Writer - Anne McKee

Anne McKee

Anne McKee teaches Friendly Beginnings for New Writers -- creative writing class. Meridian Community College, Continuing Education.

Call (601) 482-7445 for more information or contact Anne through this web site.

Anne McKee is a free-lance writer and published author.

Mississippi Magazine, May/June issue features "Historic Photos of Mississippi" in the Heritage Matters Section.

Anne's short story "Eva Nell Kitchens -- Healer, Murderer, or Survivor" has been slected for publication in the Brick Street Press, 2010 Winners Circle anthology. Planned publication date, July 2010.

Anne McKee is a storyteller, free-lance writer and published author. Ninety-Eight per cent of her work is inspired by “her life in the south lane.” Southern humor ribbons through the majority of her originally written short stories, plays, skits, vignettes, and newspaper columns.

In July 2008, she was selected for The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC), Artist Roster. In 2009, she was named to the Teaching Artist Roster. In these positions, Anne McKee's creative work is recommended by MAC, and in part, her fees will be funded by grants through MAC. See: http://www.facebook.com/l/9e09d;www.arts.state.ms.us for more information concerning the grant writing process.

In October 2008, Anne signed a contract with Turner Publishing Company, Nashville, to author Historic Photos of Mississippi. The book published May, 2009. Anne has traveled the state of Mississippi since that time promoting the book with readings and book signings. She has visited many independent book stores, book store chains, schools, historical institutions, museums, and civic organizations telling her stories about Mississippi with the assistance of the photos published in Historic Photos of Mississippi. Contact her through this web site to come to your organization or place of business and introduce (through the 200 original photos dated between 1860 and 1970) a time and place called Mississippi.

Anne is a founding board member of Mississippi Writers Guild and served as the first executive director during the first years of organization. She writes a weekly editorial for The Meridian Star, and her work can be read in Mississippi Magazine, Today's Mississippi Woman, Oxford So & So Southern Journal, the Magnolia Quarterly, and Women On Writing. In addition, she has work included in the following anthologies: Pets Across America, Volume I & II, Sweet Tea and Afternoon Tales, Teacakes and Afternoon Tales, and soon to be released Brick Streets Press, 2010 Winners Circle.

News!

My next book through Turner Publishing, Nashville, will launch November 2010. It's "Mississippi Memories."

As a storyteller, I will portray "The Lady" at The MSU/Riley Center, Meridian, in October.

I am the facilitator for a historic tour of Rose Hill Cemetery. Volunteers portray historic personalities buried there. There are 20 to 25 stops on the tour. The first tour is planned for October with additional tours coming later.

An elementary school will stage five of my short plays featuring historic Mississippi artists -- beginning the preparations in August and the production staged in October.

In August, I will complete a five day residency at a Mississippi public library where I will teach Performance Arts for elementary age students. We will stage a play that I've written.