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TN Writers | TN Stories: Jared Sullivan at the Southern Festival of Books

Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

For more than 50 years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a mountain of ashen waste 60 feet high and covering 84 acres, contained only by an earthen embankment. In 2008, just before Christmas, that embankment broke, unleashing a lethal wave of…

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Writers’ Workshops: a Festival collaboration with The Porch

Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208, USA

We are proud to welcome our literary friends from Nashville's The Porch back to the Southern Festival of Books with four facilitated writing workshops before the Festival officially begins. For years, attendees have requested that we offer opportunities for writers to engage with each other and the written word. Through our collaboration with The Porch,…