Hey there! I’m Monic Ductan (pronounced “Mo-NEEK DUHK-tuhn”) and I’m a Tennessee-based fiction writer, essayist, and poet. My first book, Daughters of Muscadine, is a loosely-linked collection of short stories about working-class black women in rural Georgia. You can buy it directly from University Press of Kentucky at this link: https://www.kentuckypress.com/9781950564330/daughters-of-muscadine/
I’m participating in several author events over the coming months. See the list below.
—I’m teaching two nonfiction lessons at the Tennessee Mountain Writers’ spring conference on March 27 & 28 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. More info here.
—I’m reading my poem from the latest Women Speak anthology with fellow poets and writers at the Appalachian Studies Conference at Marshall University in West Virginia. More details on the date and venue are forthcoming.
Past Author Events:
At Martin Public Library in Tennessee (2025)Flattered that so many showed up for my reading at a book club called Let’s Talk About It (2025)My fiction workshop at Plenty Bookshop in Cookeville, TN. A building on campus at University of the South, the Home of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2025), where I was a fiction fellow in summer 2025.A Building at University of the South, the Location of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (July 2025)Author Q&A at Trace to Trail Writers’ Retreat in Evansville, Indiana in May 2025
James Agee conference at Pellissippi State Community College, 2025Tennessee Book Award reception at Putnam County Library, 2024My nonfiction workshop for the Tennessee Mountain Writers, fall 2024With fellow writer, Chrissie Anderson Peters, in Oak Ridge Tennessee, 20242024 On the Same Page Festival in Jefferson, North CarolinaLoyal Jones Appalachian Center at Berea College, 2024At Madison County Book Fest in Kentucky, 2023The Letters Festival in Atlanta, 2023My table at New Voices / New Rooms in Arlington,Virginia, 20232024 Appalachian Writers’ WorkshopAppalachian Studies Association Conference in Cullowhee, NC, 2024Reading at Tusculum University in 2024Tusculum University, April 2024
I’m currently available for readings and workshops. To book me for your event, contact me at mductan@tntech.edu or monicductan@yahoo.com.
Monic Ductan 