Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

“The First Sunday of Advent”

…(Finishing Line Press, 2011) and Holy Days: Poems (winner of the 2011 Split Oak Press Chapbook Contest). He has also written a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It…

Killer Dreams

An aspiring author heads to Killer Nashville, a conference designed to help unpublished writers land a book contract

Twenty-odd years, three unpublished novel-length manuscripts, one published short-short story, and about a hundred agent and publisher rejections. That’s what I had invested in my career as a mystery-suspense novelist…

Catcher in the National Spotlight

Siori Koerner’s letter to J.D. Salinger wins the Murfreesboro eighth-grader top honors in the Letters About Literature contest

…about The Catcher in the Rye—had taken top honors in the 2010 Letters About Literature contest, a national reading-promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of…

Killer Contest

Killer Nashville’s contest deadline extended to June 1

May 26, 2010 Aspiring mystery novelists, take note: the deadline for the Claymore Award, a contest sponsored by Killer Nashville, has been extended to June 1, and the list of…

All Stories Considered

Ann Patchett picks a winner in NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest

May 21, 2010 From a field of more than 4,000 entrants, Ann Patchett has awarded the first-place prize in National Public Radio’s Three-Minute Fiction contest to Yoav Ben Yosef’s “Not…

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