With Thanks & Gratitude: A Year-End Message

Dear Friends, I hope our final newsletter of this year finds you and your loved ones in good health. As we navigate this unusual holiday season, I can’t help but…

Statement & Commitment from Humanities Tennessee

  Like you, at Humanities Tennessee we are reeling from the events of the past few weeks, as well as the past three months. The intensity of social injustices, climate…

Humanities Tennessee Announces CARES Act Grant Awards

  Nonprofit organizations from Johnson City to Memphis in all nine Tennessee Congressional districts will receive more than $300,000 from Humanities Tennessee in the first round of CARES Act relief…

Support for Tennessee Cultural Institutions

To Our Partners and Friends, On behalf of our team, we hope you and your families are doing well and staying healthy above all else. We hope you are joining…

Humanities Tennessee Suspends Events Through April

Dear Friends, Humanities Tennessee is committed to public health and safety, and we recognize that the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and large-scale response across Tennessee and our country raises concerns for…

Humanities Tennessee Partners with Big Ears Festival

UPDATED 3/11/20: This event is cancelled, as is the Big Ears Festival. Please see the Festival’s announcement for more information:   Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival expands to offer literary programming…

Volunteer Spotlight: Southern Festival of Books

MARY ANNE CATON & KASHIF GRAHAM The Southern Festival of Books is a celebration of the written word. For some, it’s also a homecoming. A return to a community unified…

Founding Editor of Chapter16.org to Step Down

Margaret Renkl, the founding editor of Chapter16.org, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee, will step down May 31 after ten years. Current managing editor Maria Browning will assume the editorship…