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.
Upcoming 2026 Events:
—April 30–Appalachian Literary Arts Festival in Moorehaead Kentucky
Past Author Events:
Reading my poem “Teaching Streetcar to College Literature Students” at Hindman Settlement School as part of the Women of Appalachia Protect (2026)My presentation on visual images as inspiration at the Tennessee Mountain Writers’ March conference (2026)At a fiction workshop and creative reading in Arthurdale, West Virginia (2026). So many lovely and creative people in this photo! ❤️Me next to a life-size cutout of Eleanor Roosevelt at Arthurdale, West Virginia (2026). I ADORE the woven art piece in the back! 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 