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Support Young Tennessee Writers & Readers

This spring and early summer, Humanities Tennessee is connecting young writers and readers with the written word through author visits at schools, free books, and a residential writing workshop for Learn More…

Events

Lights! Camera! East Tennessee!

Visit the East Tennessee History Center to learn about the history of moving images in the Knoxville region. This exhibition explores the technological roots of the film industry locally, film Learn More…

Voices & Votes: Democracy in America

The Tennessee tour of “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” launches in Clinton at the Green McAdoo Cultural Center. The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMS) traveling exhibit examines the nearly 250-year-old American Learn More…

Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis & Clark

Join the Lewis County Historical Society at the Depot Center for a traveling exhibit, Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis & Clark, organized by the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Learn More…

TN Writers/TN Stories presents Yasmine Ali

A gripping and meticulously crafted work of narrative nonfiction, Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America (on-sale February 21, 2023) reconstructs the events of a horrific explosion in 1978 that Learn More…

Southern But Not Country: The Interwar Career of Nashville Bandleader Francis Craig

Join the Tennessee Historical Society for the next event in a series of free, virtual discussions.  Dr. Carrie Allen Tipton, of Vanderbilt, provides a window into interwar Southern consumption and Learn More…

Chapter 16

A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers and Passersby

Chapter16.org is a daily online publication that provides comprehensive coverage of Tennessee authors, literary news, and public readings; it also serves as the state’s virtual Center for the Book.

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