Village Book Shoppe
Proffitt's Plaza
1508 Decatur Pike
Athens, TN

Bartlett Book Center
Bartlett Town Center
5975 Stage Rd.
Bartlett, TN

Volume One Book Shop
208 N. Main St.
Dickson, TN

The Book Gallery
2000 Mallory Ln.
Suite 210
Franklin, TN

Davis-Kidd
stores in Jackson, Memphis and Nashville, TN

Burke's Book Store
936 Cooper St.
Memphis, TN

Deliberate Literate
1997 Union Ave.
Memphis, TN

Xanadu Books & Music
2200 Central Ave.
Memphis, TN

Williams Booksellers
1614 Haynes Dr.
Murfreesboro, TN

Wild Hare Books, Inc.
1219 Taft Hwy. Signal Mountain, TN

Tennessee Independent Bookstores

Chattanooga Writers Guild
The Chattanooga Writers Guild supports writers in the Chattanooga community by providing monthly readings, sponsoring writing contests, publishing a monthly newsletter, holding regular writing workshops, developing and encouraging independent writing groups, and sponsoring writing-related community events.

Humanities Tennessee
Founded in 1973, Humanities Tennessee is the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities and for the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress. Its programs include Mothereads/Fathereads (a family literacy program), the Southern Festival of Books, and Tennessee Young Writers Workshop, among others.

The Tennessee Arts Commission
The Tennessee Arts Commission fulfills its mission of providing access to the arts for all Tennesseans through a variety of programs, including Arts in Education, which provides for both teacher training and artists in residencies, as well as art projects and opportunities for at-risk youth and those living in rural communities, among other programs.

Tennessee Mountain Writers, Inc.
TMW is a non-profit, non-political organization that sponsors an annual conference every April and writing contests throughout the year.

Tennessee Writers Alliance, Inc.
The Tennessee Writers Alliances provides workshops and contests for writers of all levels and publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Tennessee Writer.

Iris Press
Founded in 1975 by Patricia Wilcox in Binghamton, New York, Iris Press has been publishing poetry for almost thirty years. The first book published by Iris was Don Revell's first book of poems, The Broken Juke. Recent authors include Susan Donnelly and Ron Rash.

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine
Three times a year, Now & Then presents a fresh, revealing picture of life in Appalachia, past and present, with engaging articles, personal essays, fiction, poetry, and photography.

Poetry Miscellany
The literary journal of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

River City
River City is published twice a year under the auspices of the creative writing program of the Department of English of The University of Memphis. It is nationally distributed by Ingram Books and has a circulation of 1200 and nationally advertised contests.

Sewanee Review
The literary journal of the University of the South.

Zone 3
Zone 3 is a literary journal published twice a year by the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

1. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...

2. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...

3. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...

4. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master...

5. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...

6. Lift Every Voice and Sing
by James Weldon Johnson
Lift ev'ry voice and sing...

7. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

8. The Writer
by Richard Wilbur
In her room at the prow of the house...

9. The Bells
by Edgar Allan Poe
Hear the sledges with the bells...

10. Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams...

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MTSU Writer's Loft
MTSU's The Writer's Loft is a low-residency program offering an intensive, three-session (12-month) certificate in creative writing. Students work individually with a mentor, and meet on-campus twice a year for the program's Literary Day.

Sewanee: School of Letters
Encouraged by the long success of The Sewanee Review, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee has established a summer graduate program on its campus atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. It offers the M.A. in English and American Literature and the M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Most degrees can be completed in four to five summer sessions.

Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop
Sponsored by Humanities Tennessee and Austin Peay State University, this week-long workshop for high school students provides creative writing workshops with distinguished and dynamic faculty. Every July.

The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
UTC offers both a B.A. and M.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Founded in 1977, the Creative Writing Program offers undergraduates a B.A. with a concentration in creative writing and graduate students an M.A. in Creative Writing as well as a Ph.D. with Creative Dissertation.

Vanderbilt Univeristy
Located in Nashville, Vanderbilt's MFA program last for two years and faculty members include Kate Daniels, Rick Hilles, and Mark Jarman. The program also publishes an annual literary journal, The Vanderbilt Review.

Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature
Begun in 1981, the AEC Conference on Southern Literature has become a premier event for Chattanooga promoting the best in Southern literature. Working in fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, children's literature, criticism, film, music, and photography, readers and writers convene in Chattanooga in mid-April for lectures, panel discussions, readings, and school residencies.

The Meacham Writers Workshop
Meeting every fall and spring, The Meacham Writers Workshop is free and open to the public; there is no registration. The program consists of readings, discussion sessions, and group conferences. The philosophy of the workshop is to provide support but also honest and direct criticism for developing writers. The atmosphere is informal, and there are many opportunities for lunch and other casual meetings. Past guests have included Philip Levine, James Tate, Mark Halliday, Jill Rosser, Tomaz Salamun, William Mathews, Stanley Plumly, Marvin Bell, Mark Cox, Mark Jarman, and Gerald Stern.

Sewanee Writers Conference
Every July, a group of more than 100 students of writing gathers on the idyllic mountaintop campus of the University of the South. During a whirlwind two-week period, these participants talk about the craft of writing with some of this country's finest novelists, poets, playwrights, and professionals in the publishing field.

Southern Festival of Books
The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word is a three-day celebration of books that takes place annually the second full weekend of October at War Memorial Plaza in downtown Nashville. The Festival is free with no tickets or reservations required.