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Sarah blackman
Sarah blackman
email: sblackman@greenvilleschools.us
Sarah Blackman is a poet, fiction and creative non-fiction author originally from the Washington D.C. area. She graduated from Washington College, summa cum laude, with a BA in English, minor Creative Writing, and earned her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2007 with a primary concentration in fiction and a secondary concentration in poetry. Her poetry and prose has been published in a number of journals and magazines, including The Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, The Yale Review, and American Poetry Review among others. Blackman is the co-fiction editor of DIAGRAM, the fiction editor of Cherry Tree, and the founding editor of Crashtest, an online magazine for high school age writers which she edits alongside the students at the Fine Arts Center. Her story collection Mother Box was the winner of the 2012 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize and was published by FC2 in 2013. Her novel, Hex, was published by the same press in April, 2016. In 2018 she joined the board of FC2 and in 2020 she was awarded a South Carolina Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship. She is represented by the Wylie Agency. Her new novel, Nobody's Here, will be published by FC2 in the spring of 2027.
TJ Beitelman
TJ Beitelman
email: tbeitelman@greenvilleschools.us
TJ Beitelman is the author of a novel, John the Revelator, a short-story collection, Communion, and several collections of poetry: This is the Story of His Life, Americana, and In Order to Form a More Perfect Union. His nonfiction books include Write Mindfulness: A DIY Guide to Writing for the Right Reasons, Self-Helpless: A Misfit’s Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and The Unmasked Tenor: The Life and Times of a Singing Wrestler (with Sam Tenenbaum). He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, and an MA (and a BA) in English from Virginia Tech. A recipient of artist’s fellowships from state and local arts organizations, his individual stories, poems, and essays have appeared in such publications as Quarterly West, New Orleans Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and DIAGRAM, among others. He’s taught writing and literature in various classroom settings at the K-12 and university level since 1994, and he’s been on the faculty at the Fine Arts Center since 2026.
instructor portfolios
instructor portfolios
Link to review of Mother Box in Kenyon Review online
Link to review of Hex in Forwards Review
Link to Greenville County Schools profile
Link to stories published in Conjunctions
Link to Clemson Literary Festival 2019 interview
Link to Crashtest, the Fine Arts Center's online literary magazine.
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