Denton Loving is the author of Crimes Against Birds (2014) and Tamp (2024), which received the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. Loving will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18–19.
Connie Jordan Green, a member of the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, is the author of novels for young people, poetry chapbooks and collections, and a personal newspaper column that ran for more than 42 years. She will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18–19.
In Chet Atkins: Mr. Guitar, Don Cusic makes the case for the East Tennessee-born musician, producer, and record-label executive as the emblematic guitarist of the 20th century. Don Cusic will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
In Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr.’s characters use a computing device to explore alternative versions of El Salvador’s civil war and their own turbulent romances. Ruben Reyes Jr. will appear at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
The collaboration between readers and writers works so well because words are the common bond, the gift humans possess like no other living creature. We are all writers and practitioners of language — speaking, text messaging, emailing, tweeting. Perhaps now more than ever before, we’re seeing why words matter, how their use divides us or unites us, and how we hope words can salve and heal our wounds.
Barry Mazor’s Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story explores Phil and Don’s famously fraught relationship, their struggles with the music business, and the origins of their unique sound. Barry Mazor will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
