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Three-Day Business Trip

A life-changing journey

By Mirsad Kulovic | May 6, 2022

*FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This essay, chosen as one of the winners of the inaugural Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest, originally appeared on January 31, 2020. *** Chapter 16…

Close Call

Second-prize winner in the Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest

By Richard C. Albins | January 24, 2020

Chapter 16 is pleased to publish the winners in our Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest. Regarding Richard C. Albins’ winning essay, contest judge Mary Laura Philpott writes: “Metal buckets evoke…

Grasshopper

First-prize winner in the Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest

By Yurina Yoshikawa | January 17, 2020

Chapter 16 is pleased to publish the winners in our Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest. Contest judge Mary Laura Philpott writes: What a delight to read these true stories. The…

Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest

September 17, 2019

Submissions to the Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest are currently closed. We’ll be announcing a new contest in the months ahead. Subscribe to the Chapter 16 newsletter for updates. We’re…

The Story of Juneteenth

by Dorena Williamson, illustrated by Markia Jenai
Worthy Kids
24 pages
$7.99

“With simple, age-appropriate language and colorful illustrations, this little board book introduces children to the events of June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the people of Texas that all enslaved people were declared free and the Civil War had ended.”

~ the publisher