The University of Tennessee Creative Writing Program welcomes acclaimed essayist and fiction writer, Wendy Brenner, and her editor at Algonquin Books, Kathy Pories, who are coming to speak to journalism students about the editor/writer relationship.

Brenner is the author of the collections of stories, "Phone Calls from the Dead" and "Large Animals in Everyday Life," which won the Flannery O'Connor Award. Her stories have appeared in such publications as Seventeen, Allure, Travel and Leisure and other magazines. She is a contributing author for Oxford American Magazine and teaches in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Kathie Pories, senior editor, has been an editor at Algonquin Books since 1995. She is also the editor of several different anthologies including "New Stories from the South:The Years Best."

The two women are scheduled to conduct an informal question and answer session at 2 p.m. on Oct. 1, in McClung Tower, Rooms 1210-1211. This session will focus on the relationship between writers and thier editors. They will also answer questions pertaining to the publishing industry and marketing.

At 7 p.m. on that same day, Brenner will read selections from her recent work in John C. Hodges Library.