The state’s largest literary event will feature 100 authors
This year’s Festival will feature 100 authors, offering attendees the opportunity to connect online with their favorite authors from a variety of genres, including nonfiction, poetry, mystery, and more.
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A writer gardens through an existential crisis
From the Chapter 16 archive: If there’s not enough time to read, why am I working so hard to send another book into the world?
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Andrew Sean Greer talks with Chapter 16 about finding his way into a story
From the Chapter 16 archive: “Doubt is essential to the writing life,” Andrew Sean Greer says. “If you only had arrogance, you’d write a book that’s all ego.”
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Excerpt: Specter Mountain
From the Chapter 16 archive: Specter Mountain is a book-length poetry collaboration between Jesse Graves and William Wright that imagines the spiritual and ecological life of an embattled landscape. The collection fuses two striking poetic visions into a new perspective on nature and the inevitable imprint of human interaction with wilderness.
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In Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s historical novel, a Tennessee root doctor looks for a way to treat suffering after the Civil War
From the Chapter 16 archive: In Balm, Dolen Perkins-Valdez investigates the possibilities of healing the personal and national trauma caused by the Civil War.
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From the Chapter 16 archive: Blas Falconer is the author of The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2006) and A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press, 2007), and his work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Third Coast, Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, New Delta Review, and the Baltimore Review. “Lighter” originally appeared in the Hampton-Sydney Review.
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