Below are links to various sites about writing and life. 

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Writing

Tennessee Writers Alliance - A nonprofit corporation supporting writers and literature. The mission of the Tennessee Writers Alliance is to support the work of Tennessee writers and to enhance the role of literary arts in Tennessee culture by

•promoting interaction among writers and writers' organizations,

•developing and serving a multicultural audience, and

•providing opportunities for the artistic and professional development of writers of Tennessee.

Tennessee Writers Alliance writing links

The Writers Loft - Middle Tennessee State University’s low residency certificate in creative writing.  This is an excellent program if you need to work from home, aren’t interested or ready for an MFA but want intensive one on one mentoring with your writing.

Spalding University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program in Louisville, Kentucky

AWP - The Association of Writers and Writing Programs

Poets & Writers magazine

BloodLotus - An online literary journal

The New Southerner - The mainstream magazine of alternative thinking

K. L. Cook - author of Last Call and The Girl from Charnelle

11. K.L. Cook writing links
    

Dawn Shamp - author of On Account of Conspicuous Women

Charlotte Rains Dixon - author, blogger, editor and creator of website Wordstrumpet.com. Also Program Director of The Writer’s Loft creative writing program at Middle Tennessee State University

Silas House - author of Clay’s Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves and The Coal Tattoo

Neela Vaswani - author of Where the Long Grass Bends

Aimee Zaring - author of Goshen

Kory Wells - author of White Line to Graceville

Ann Patchett - author of several books, most recently Truth and Beauty and Bel Canto

Darnell Arnoult - author of Sufficient Grace

Jane Hicks - poet - Blood and Bone Remember: Poems from Appalachia.  Endearingly known as The Cosmic Possum

Connie May Fowler - author of several books, most recently The Problem with Murmur Lee and Before Women Had Wings

Kirby Gann - author of Our Napoleon in Rags and The Barbarian Parade

Sena Jeter Naslund - author of the novel, Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette, as well as Four Spirits and Ahab’s Wife.  Sena is the program director of the MFA program at Spalding University

Crystal Wilkinson - author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street

Kim Addonizio - author and poet of several books, most recently Little Beauties

J. R. “Model T” Tate - three time thru-hiker of the Appalachian Trail, and  author of Walkin' on the Happy Side of Misery and Walkin' with the Ghost Whisperers:

Lore and Legends of the Appalachian Trail

Sewanee Writers’ Conference held each July at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee

Southern Festival of Books held in October in Nashville, Tennessee.

Southern Kentucky Bookfest held in Bowling Green, Kentucky.