Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Writers in the Red

Bidding begins today at online auction Writers for the Red Cross

…literary scene, including thriller author Dan Brown, literary novelist Ann Patchett, literary nonfiction author Rebecca Skloot, and children’s author Rosemary Wells, among many, many others. In an interview today at…

Beautiful Boy

Knoxville television station airs documentary on the life of a young drug addict

…and blogger Katie Allison Granju. Henry Granju was addicted to drugs, and died in May after suffering an overdose. The special airs commercial-free at 7:00 pm in East Tennessee, and…

"Duskdawn"

…     kids up and say Boys, failure           is imminent, but try to do it all better than your old men,      pour your little sweet guts and hopes into everything. Mostly, I…

Book Excerpt: Kingfisher Days

Each Page a Ghost

…As invisible as Chesterton’s mailman in that story, you know that story. Then a winter day they barter singularity, reply to dusk in twos and threes and merge into plural

Week Links

Check out all the places Tennessee writers have appeared online in the past week

…Edmonton Journal (“a tour de force of literary gamesmanship which never takes itself too seriously”), the The Kansas City Star and other newspapers served by the McClatchy syndicate (“an author…

Detour in Tennessee

The Academy of American Poets honors Kimiko Hahn’s poem about Sweetwater Caverns

June 3, 2010 Today’s poem at poets.org, an online publication of the Academy of American Poets, is “The Sweetwater Caverns” by Kimiko Hahn. As with much of Hahn’s work, the…

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