Scott Elliott

2012

Temple Grove is scheduled for publication by the University of Washington Press in spring 2013.

In February I gave the G. Thomas Edwards Lecture at Whitman. The title: The Brain Wants a Song: Creative Writing and the Liberal Arts.

2011

The short story Affirmed and Alydar was accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Louisville Review

June: Read the novella-in-progress "Cue the Cougar" with David Bernardy and Joni Tevis at the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Conference in Bloomington, Indiana. The title of the reading: Our Animals Inside

2010

Summer: short story "A Certain Kind of Rural Story" published in Mayday Magazine

I will read my essay "Sol Duc" at Raucous Pens/​Wild Lives. This is a group reading in honor of Hawk and Handsaw Magazine and Terrain.org, Thursday 8 April, as part of the AWP Conference, Denver Colorado.

2009

Finished editing Pen students' anthology Concertina: Our Voices.

Short story "Leaf and Blade" published in Juked.

This summer I'll be working with two students on a Perry Grant adapting oral accounts of family stories into satisfying fiction and creative non-fiction.

May 2009--Finishing up a productive sabbatical during which I began work on a long poem about rivers; completed work on a story collection (working title Return Arrangements) about brothers, sibling rivalry, and attempts to become an artist; got a good start on several other projects; and began teaching a multi-genre creative writing class at the Washington State Penitentiary.

I'm reading my essay "Sol Duc" (about a particular experience fly-fishing for steelhead on the Olympic Peninsula) at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Conference in Victoria, B.C., June 3-7.

"How Much Letting Go?" a review of Greg Sanders story collection Motel Girl in the American Book Review, May/​June.

February 11-15, AWP in Chicago and particularly the Pedagogy Forum, sharing a style exercise involving a translation of a passage of a Hemingway story ("Hills Like White Elephants")into Faulknerian prose and/​or a translation of a passage of a Faulkner story ("A Rose for Emily") into Hemingway-esque prose.

"Lonely Voices," a review of David Crouse's story collection The Man Back There and Other Stories in American Book Review, January.

2008

"The Crossing: A Love Story in Twenty-Six Lines" in Forklift, Ohio, November

"Warranted Magic: Writing and Discussing Magical Realism." An article in the Writers Chronicle, May/​Summer

January 30-February 2. AWP Pedagogy Forum, New York, "Using Self-Guided Journals to Supplement Reading in a Workshop Class"

2007

October 17-21. Western Literature Association Conference, Tacoma, WA. Read a selection from In the Olympics.

February 10. Winter Margin, Walla Walla Community College's annual invitational reading event to "...push back the winter margin...put it in its place."

February 28 to March 4, AWP Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. Pedagogy Forum: "Supplying the Best Ending," a writing exercise that involves having students read all but the ending of a story they've never read before, supplying the best ending they can write for that story, and comparing their ending with the original version.

2006
I'm on sabbatical from Whitman in the fall and will be traveling, living near Forks, Washington, and working on the second novel and some other writing projects.

Short story "The Wheelbarrow Man" in the summer 2006 Antioch Review

AWP Pedagogy Forum, "Using Favorite Songs to Inspire Story Writing," Austin, March 2006

2005
Southern Kentucky Bookfest "Success and the First Novel" invited talk, April 2005.

AWP Vancouver March 2005

One Community, One Book Event March 3 and 4, 2005, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Coiled in the Heart was selected as the book for this event in 2005. I went to Bowling Green to participate in a series of discussions of Coiled with students on the WKU campus and members of the Bowling Green community. It was a wonderful experience.

Texas Book Fair, "Dark in the Heart" panel discussion, October 28-30th, 2005 Austin Texas

2004

Visiting Writers Readers Series Reading at Whitman, September 21

July, Paperback edition of Coiled in the Heart published by Putnam (Bluehen, Berkely)

KUHF, Houston, Front Row, Interview With Alison Jones, Aired July 2004

2003
Readings:
University of Houston Library Reading Series, October
Davis-Kidd, Nashville, September
Walden Books, Knoxville, September
Hawley-Cooke, Louisville, September
Brazos Bookstore, Houston, September

Radio:
NPR’s Morning Edition, Interview with Bob Edwards, Aired November 11, 2003

KONP, Port Angeles, Washington, Interview with Karen Hanan, Art Beat Show, August 27, 2003

Television:
KUHT, Channel 8, Houston, Texas, recorded in September 2003

WVLT, Channel 8, CBS Affiliate, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 17, 2003

WHAS Channel 11, ABC Affiliate, Louisville Kentucky, September 12, 2003