The Chattanooga Writers’ Guild promotes, encourages, and supports writing and fosters a supportive, caring environment for writers in the Chattanooga community.
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Join us for our monthly meeting on November 10th!
Build Yourself a Bible: Journaling and the Writing Process This talk by Gage Taylor explores the relationship between a journaling habit and professional writing. It also details the personal benefits of journaling and examines journaling systems used by successful writers. Finally, it will include a demonstration of WrittenWords, an app…
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November Fiction Contest Open
The Chattanooga Writers’ Guild seeks Fiction submissions with the theme Colors. Writers may interpret the theme as loosely as they wish. Deadline to submit up to three (3) stories of 1,500 words each is November 30, 2026. Check out the full submission guidelines HERE. Prize-winning fiction author Alexandra Kelly will judge this month’s…
Keep readingLocal Author Book Fair Dec 15th from 5:30 – 7:00
Join local authors for a book fair and book signing — or bring your own books to sign and sell! The event is happening December 15th, from 5:30 – 7:00 at the Cleveland Bradley County Public Library. Sign up to sell your books by emailing Kathy Davini at kdavini@clevelandlibrary.org
Keep readingWhere are our poets and essayists?
The critique group devoted to creative nonfiction and poetry has been operating in some form for twenty-five years now. As a group, we’ve seen lots of growth and success over the years. Recently our numbers have dwindled, so we’re putting out the word in case some of you are unaware of…
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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
The Locke Box
Family’s where you find it when a bizarre crash leaves two strangers running for their lives with an orphaned baby and the key to a mysterious lock. Sensual but clean, …Read More »
Almost Everything, Almost Nothing
Almost Everything, Almost Nothing is a balm for busy and troubling times, immersing the reader in lyric landscape and birdsong, a tapestry as well as a kind of territory. Ballentine’s …Read More »
Crazy Buffet Club: A Collection of Stories
A collection of stories from a group of writers in Hixson, TN. The group is composed of writers very different styles and genres, in age, experience, political outlook, and their …Read More »
Tracks in the Grove: A Mystery Novel
Madison Davis has retired and moved back to Clinch, her home town in rural central Florida. With an inheritance from her father, she buys a citrus grove and builds a …Read More »
Twelve Hours on the Block
Eli hoped to do his time and get back to living life outside prison. However, that hope faded when he watched a prisoner rip a guard’s heart out and toss …Read More »
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