Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams have won the 2016 NAACP Image Award
February 29, 2016 Exultant hurrahs and hearty congratulations to Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams, winners of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for an outstanding literary work with an instructional emphasis.
Novelist Adam Ross is the new editor of The Sewanee Review
February 22, 2016 George Core, editor of The Sewanee Review for the past forty-two years, will be stepping down at the end of 2016. The new editor of the oldest continuously published literary magazine in the country, is Nashville novelist Adam Ross.
A letter from Will D. Campbell surfaces after many years in a drawer
February 16, 2016 The staff at Humanities Tennessee is preparing to move to new offices, and fresh treasures keep turning up every time someone opens an old file drawer. One of them is an undated letter sent by Will D. Campbell, civil-rights activist and author of Brother to a Dragonfly.
Tennessee writers bring in a bumper crop of awards
November 13, 2015 This year has already brought Tennessee writers a raft of honors, including three NEA grants, a Frost Place Chapbook Prize, and the $10,000 Rattle award, but the good news just keeps coming with more honors for Blountville poet Jane Hicks, Jackson poet Bobby C. Rogers, and Knoxville novelist Charles Dodd White.
Former Nashvillian Eliza Borné is the new editor of The Oxford American
Margaret Lazarus Dean’s prizewinning Leaving Orbit wows the critics
October 22, 2015 Prior to Margaret Lazarus Dean’s reading at Parnassus Books in Nashville on October 23, 2015, Chapter 16 surveys the critical reception of Dean’s Graywolf Nonfiction Award-winning book, Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight.
