He is the author behind the civil rights themed works such as Bombingham, which was listed as a notable book by the Washington Post, and The Vain Conversation, which made the list of 25 books all Georgians should read. Professor Grooms was born and raised in rural Virginia, and grew up during a time when the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War were still radically changing society around him. Anthony Grooms is one such individual whose powerful writing made waves within the literary community. The world is full of creative minds guided by various unique experiences and forms of inspiration. For more about Grooms, visit This program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which, as always, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.Photos provided by Professor Grooms upon request, following our interview. His novel, T he Vain Conversation, was published in spring 2018, and has earned literary honors from the Georgia Center for the Book, the Women’s National Book Association, the Trio Multi-Arts Program, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Grooms is a Fulbright Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, a Hurston-Wright Foundation Legacy Award finalist, and an Arts Administration Fellow from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has lectured widely on American literature and culture, especially on topics related to narrations that reflect on the American Civil Rights Movement. He has taught writing and American literature at universities in Ghana and Sweden, and since 1994, at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Course materials will be provided as email attachments.Īnthony Grooms is the author of Bombingham: A Novel and Trouble No More: Stories, both winners of the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction and adopted for study in universities. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participating writers after registering. This workshop will be held as an online video conference call through Zoom. Participants may bring the opening 100 words or so of a short story or novel on which they are working. This workshop will explore some of the theoretical aspects of POV and will practice adapting these ideas in various exercises as a way to note their effect on both story structure and the reader. Through its sometimes complex renderings of person, form, diction, distance, and reliability, POV becomes the trunk from which the branches of the other elements sprout and intertwine. Though readers tend to focus on characterization and plot, these could not be realized without the writer’s careful consideration of the narrator’s voice, that is to say, without the element of point-of-view (POV). Point-Of-View: Considering Fiction’s Most Important Element – Led by Anthony Grooms Pat Conroy Literary Center – 905 Port Republic, Beaufort, SC 29902

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