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Can you decorate a table for our Anniversary Reception?
We still need a few people to volunteer to decorate one table for our Anniversary Reception on September 12th at Greenway Farms — are you interested? You will need to provide a simple table cover and a centerpiece. This is your chance to exercise a different kind of creativity and…
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Winners: July Poetry Contest
Congratulations to Sherry Poff and Ray Zimmerman, winners of the July 2026 Poetry Contest!
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Join us for our monthly meeting on August 11, 2026!
Join us at our regular August meeting for a special presentation on AI in writing and publishing. Light refreshments will be provided. TITLE: Get Real! Publishers Love to Hate AI — And Authors Need to Know Why! DATE: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 pm ADDRESS: Chattanooga State…
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Save the Date – CWG 25th Anniversary Reception is Sep 12th from 5 – 7!
The Chattanooga Writers’ Guild turns 25 this year, and we’d love you to celebrate with us! Join us for a reception at Greenway Farms on September 12th from 5 – 7, and enjoy finger foods, desserts, and drinks, as well as a short presentation on the Guild and a celebration…
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August Fiction Contest Open
The Chattanooga Writers’ Guild seeks Fiction submissions with the theme Heights. Writers may interpret the theme as loosely as they wish. Deadline to submit up to three (3) stories of 1,500 words each is August 31, 2026. Check out the full submission guidelines HERE. Author James Brumbaugh will judge this month’s submissions. Winners…
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Newest Submissions
The Memory Guardians: The House on Stone Street
Imagine being charged to preserve twelve decades of memories created by the occupants of one particular house. That was the task SueCarol Elvin assigned to a pair of figments of …Read More »
Strong Glass
Peggy’s life seems solid from the outside—successful career, stable marriage, hard-earned independence. But when her husband informs her he’s had enough and is leaving, everything she thought was secure begins …Read More »
Trevor the Notable G.O.A.T.: A Triumphant Tale of Music and Friendship for a Boy with Autism
Bursting with wit, warmth, music, and unexpected friendships, Trevor the Noteable GOAT is an inspiring story about embracing who you are, finding confidence, and discovering that your differences make you …Read More »
Mostly True: Stories with a Southern Sensibility
Mostly True, Stories with a Southern Sensibility, is a collection of creative, non-fiction short stories about Janie Dempsey Watts’s growing up in the South, moving away to California, and finally …Read More »
Yesterday Echoes
Yesterday Echoes is a lyrical meditation on memory, heritage, and the sacredness of place. Rooted in the Southern landscape of Kentucky and Tennessee, these poems explore the quiet beauty of everyday life …Read More »
Random Selection
Take Me To Your Reader: A Corner Scribblers Flash Collection w/ guest author, Dan Hollifield
Take me to your reader is a collection of fun, serious and wacky stories centered around a first contact with an alien species. Why? Because…Aliens! Foreword and story contribution “the …Read More »
Migration
Migration explores family history, both real and imagined, ranging from slavery and her family’s migration up north to her return. As it is said, African American history is American history. …Read More »
Why Water Plants Don’t Drown: Survival Strategies of Aquatic and Wetland Plants
Flooding is a serious problem for plants. As with humans, when plants (and plant roots, in particular) that normally live out of water are submerged underwater, they suffocate. But plants …Read More »
Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughter
Now a Lifetime television movie starring Sarah Drew, Stolen By Their Father was adapted from the story of Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters about a young mother and …Read More »
Buckle Pocket
Buckle Pocket is less for children, and more for the people who read to them. On the surface, it’s a silly, nonsensical picture book full of tongue-twisters and rhymes, but …Read More »
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