Award-winning columnist Don Williams' columns are a regular feature at KnoxViews, East Tennessee's leading new media website for progressive news, opinion, and lively discussion.

Don Williams is a columnist, blogger, teacher, short story writer and the founding editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings, an annual anthology of stories, essays and poems.

His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Michigan Journalism Fellowship, a Golden Presscard Award and the Malcolm Law Journalism Prize. He is finishing a novel, "ORACLE OF THE ORCHID LOUNGE," set in his native Tennessee and Iraq.

Along with Greg Palast, Marjorie Cohn, Norman Solomon, Will Durst, James Secor and others, he is a contributing editor to Media With Conscience and his commentary frequently leads the page at www.opednews.com.

For more information, email him at donwilliams7@charter.net, visit the NMW website at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com, or visit Facebook and search for New Millennium Writings.

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