{"id":28386,"date":"2026-11-02T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=28386"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:07:33","slug":"steven-dunn-author-to-speak-nov-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2026\/events\/steven-dunn-author-to-speak-nov-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Dunn, Author to Speak Nov. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Steven Dunn will be a Guest Speaker Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in Bell Hall Auditorium. Also featured will be special guest Leonard Tucker. A book-signing will follow the event. Dunn is a Whiting Award winner who was shortlisted for Granta Magazine\u2019s Best of Young American Novelists. He\u2019s the author of three novels: Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky, 2016), water &amp; power (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018), and Tannery Bay (FC2\/University of Alabama Press, 2024), which is co-authored with Katie Jean Shinkle.<\/p>\n<p>Potted Meat is a 2017 Colorado Book Award Finalist, VICE Magazine\u2019s Best Books of 2016, and adapted into a short film by Foothills Productions called The Usual Route. The Usual Route has played at the LA International Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Contact athurmond@tntech.edu for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Steven Dunn will be a Guest Speaker Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in Bell Hall Auditorium. Also featured will be special guest Leonard Tucker. A book-signing will follow the event. Dunn is a Whiting Award winner who was shortlisted for Granta Magazine\u2019s Best of Young American Novelists. He\u2019s the author of three novels: Potted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":["post-28386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-facstaff","tag-rs","tag-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28386\/revisions\/28409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}