Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

“December Light in Arizona”

Melissa Cundieff-Pexa received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University in 2012 and lives now in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two small children. Her poems have appeared in journals…

Balladeer in Black and White

American Ballads, Marty Stuart’s book of backstage photographs, captures a musical age

In a professional career that has spanned over forty years, musician, singer, songwriter, and collector Marty Stuart has participated in musical history. An accomplished photographer, he has also captured the…

Everyone Wanting Only the Best

In The Vacationers, Emma Straub’s characters head to Mallorca amid simmering conflict

Vanderbilt University on April 17, 2014, as part of the Gertrude and Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series. The reading will be held in Buttrick Hall Room 102 at 7 p.m….

A Shared World

Eavan Boland talks with Chapter 16 about her new work, the definition of memoir, and poems as unfinished business

…pleasure. On April 10, 2014, at 7 p.m. Eavan Boland will appear in Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville as part of the Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series….

Bless This Home

Chapter 16 is proud to present the winning story in the Nashville Reads fiction contest

…brokenness from which we might, God willing, never heal. Copyright (c) 2014 by Rosie Forrest. All rights reserved. Rosie Forrest holds an M.F.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire,…

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