Congratulations to David Hunter, recipient of the 2008 Knoxville Writer's Guild Career Achievement Award.

Don Williams will be introducing David at the awards dinner, and says:

Presentation of the award will be a highlight of the Guild’s Spring Gala at St. James Episcopal Church, 1101 Broadway, from 2-6 p.m. on Saturday, April 26. That event will include a community seminar and panel discussion called “Writing in the 22nd Century: Technology We Must Know”, and a celebration following with awards presentations and music by Kelle Jolly and Friends.

The Career Achievement Award is a salute to the full body of a writer’s work which spans a career. Past recipients include: Carson Brewer, George Scarbrough, Wilma Dykeman, Jon Manchip White and Jeff Daniel Marion.

Hunter’s work of the past 30 years includes 15 published books, numerous magazine and newspaper articles and a weekly opinion column that appears in the Knoxville News-Sentinel on Mondays.

Read more at the Knoxville Writer's Guild website [1].