Author C.D. Mitchell at The Arts@311

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Jul 10th, 2012 @ 7:00 pm

C.D. Mitchell will be the special guest at The Arts@311, 311 Church St., on July 10 at 7 p.m. The evening is hosted by the North East Arkansas Writers group.

Christopher Donald Mitchell is a man of amazing talent and more as he reaches out to others through not only what he writes, but in education and sharing, teaching and personally assisting others to create, write, and achieve their goals. When teaching classes at Middle Tennessee State University or as a guest speaker at one of the numerous events he presents or attends as an invited guest, he shares so much with others in an entertaining and enlightening time of selected readings, discussion, presentation and a time to meet and greet him personally.

CD Mitchell has an MFA with concentrations in creative nonfiction and fiction. He served as an editor for the award winning and nationally recognized literary journal, The Pinch, published by the University of Memphis MFA program. He has seen the courtroom as a prosecutor, a defense attorney, a special judge, and as a defendant. A professional boxing career ended with a record of 45-5 with 38 knockouts. Tommy Morrison, the former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion claimed one of his first Tough-man titles in fights CD promoted in Fayetteville Arkansas. He has worked as a bridge man and track layer for the Union Pacific Railroad, owned his own construction company, competed in Memphis in May Preliminary BBQ competitions, owned his own BBQ stand, and worked on the locks and dams of the Arkansas River from Toad Suck to Ozark. He has been a groom four times and a pallbearer four times, but has never been a best man, and that in itself is a story waiting to be written.

CD Mitchell has had several publications of both fiction and creative nonfiction in print and online journals that include Natural Bridge, River Teeth, The Southeast Review, Story South, Blood Lotus, The Evansville Review, The Appalachee Review, Big Muddy, North Dakota Quarterly, and others. His story, "The Execution" loosely based upon a true incident in Arkansas, has been selected for inclusion in a crime anthology forthcoming in the United Kingdom this fall. Another story, "Clovis" is part of a collaboration with Chicago photographer Jennifer Moore and will be included with the work of 5 other artists and writers in an anthology published by Flying House in August.
His website is cdmitchell.net and can best be seen using Mozilla Firefox.