Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

The Prize in the Cereal Box

A Nashville nanny enters a Cheerios contest … and wins a publishing contract

Nashville nanny Shellie Braeuner didn’t learn about the first Cheerios Spoonfuls of Stories Children’s Book Contest until the final day to enter. Undaunted, she came up with a charming rhyme…

Welcome!

…(Wags might claim there’s also an irony in the concept of a literary life in Tennessee.) The Internet can be a dispiriting place, where total cranks and nincompoops effortlessly assume…

Beyond Belles

Cathy Holton’s novel delivers another sharp look at the interior lives of aging debutantes

…clothes or expensive medical or dental care. They were provided with all the material possessions a late-twentieth-century child could possibly want. They attended church and good private schools and had…

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