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A heads-up to Chattanooga folks: There's one week left for K-12 students in Hamilton County, including homeschool students, to have their work submitted for the Young Southern Student Writers Contest. The contest was established in 1999 and is presented by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partnership with SoLit (formerly Southern Lit Alliance). Submissions are open until January 15, and details for entering can be found here.
And speaking of Chattanooga happenings, SoLit's SouthWord Literary Festival returns April 14-15. Stay tuned for news of more spring lit events around the state as they take shape.
Today at Chapter 16, we've got a review of the new novel by David Wesley Williams, Everybody Knows. As reviewer Bradley Sides notes, Williams' post-apocalyptic vision of Tennessee "is a satire, and a sharp, biting one at that." Friday marked one year since the death of Sidney Poitier, and Frye Gaillard remembered the actor's 1966 visit to Fisk University in a moving essay. On Thursday, we featured a poem from Darius Stewart's Intimacies in Borrowed Light, "Statues in the Park." Our Q&A with David Dark about the new edition of his book Life's Too SHort to Pretend You're Not Religious rounded out the week.
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