Salty Dog Seafood Festival, Saturday, July 20

Worlds Fair Park, Knoxville

Bobbi Phelps Chapman, Bill Barbour, and Leoma Gilley are pictured in front of the Authors Guild of Tennessee booth today. Their books include historical fiction, nonfiction accounts of personal adventures, and inspirational messages. Come out and browse their books, the handmade goods and food products made by crafters at the festival, and the fresh seafood from the food vendors.

Tomorrow is the festival’s last day, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Salty Dog Seafood Festival

World’s Fair Park, Knoxville

Bobby Chapman and Cheryl Peyton are there, despite the forecast rain. Stephen Lynn Bales is also there. We can only hope that the rain tomorrow won’t happen, and the shrimp and crawfish are fresh! This is a three-day event, starting Friday, July 19th.

Brenda Sellers  gives talk in Iceland

Brenda Sellers had her first international speaking/book signing in Iceland yesterday, July 6, in an antikvariat (antique booksellers’ shop). The announcement in the local media was in both English and Icelandic. Brenda reports that the attendees were very receptive to her talk about her book, You Slept Where?, particularly her story about staying in the Ice Hotel in Iceland.

New Retail Location

IGA Store in Townsend

The Townsend IGA store is now selling our books. We have a good number of titles for customers to choose from.

Townsend IGA is a locally owned grocery store serving the Townsend community. They buy local grocery items and proudly support the local farmers.

Hours are: Mon. through Sun. 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

“Trails of Wrathful Waters” by David Curran

now available in the online journal AppalachiaBare

This is a delightful chapter from the author’s book Hiking for Fun and Pain.  Leaving his comfort zone of sylvan serenity, Dave agrees to join his fearless brother-in-law in white-water rafting on the Ocoee River, followed by calmly rowing down the Missouri, then hopping in a funyak to take on the turbulent Nolichucky River.  The result is a tale of high adventure laced with humor. To read this entertaining account, go to AppalachiaBare, click on highwaysandbyways, then on Wanderings — recent posts.

“Daisy”

                       by Russ Fine

a short story on the online journal Appalachia Bare

This is the heartwarming story of a small brown dog who was adopted by a lonely man at the request of its homeless owner. The good deed turns into a blessing for the new owner whose life is enriched by the company of this loving animal.

Gene Berryhill

New Member of Authors Guild of Tennessee

G. Gene Berryhill, Ph.D., Fulbright scholar, has been a professor of art and art history for over 30 years at universities in this country, including in California, Hawaii, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, as well as at universities abroad in Germany, Bulgaria, and China.

Gene’s first book, Ripples from the Holler, was published in 2023. As Historical Fiction, Gene has drawn on the extraordinary adventures of her ancestors, who were part Cherokee, as they survived trials and hardships from the early 1800s to the early 1900s out West and in Tennessee. The stories weave their activities with those of Tennessee hill folk, the effects of the Great Depression in the area, Civil War tragedies, and Indian battles that raged across the plains and woodlands.

As Gene explains on her back book cover, “It was a leap of faith from city life and extensive travel to focus on her love for American history, Tennessee, country living, and her kin—past and present.”

Today, Gene lives in Gallatin and Monroe, Tennessee, with her husband Bob.

Between Gone and Everlasting

Danita Dodson’s New Poetry Book

Published May 6, 2024

Danita Dodson writes with emotive transparency about loss, the passing of generations, and the love of a father whose memory becomes a source of light after his death. Between Gone and Everlasting pans the perimeters of mourning with a phenomenal scope: heartrending reflections on grief, tender odes of remembrance, stunning elegies about Appalachia’s fading past, and stirring psalms of spiritual awakening amid loss.

Creative Writing Contest

Lenoir City High School

2nd Semester 2023-24

In the second semester of the 2023-4 school year, Angela Crabtree, teacher of the junior/senior writing classes at Lenoir City High School, selected poetry as the literary form for the Creative Writing Contest sponsored by the Authors Guild of Tennessee.

The first- and second-place winners in Ms. Crabtree’s two classes are linked under this notice. Again, the students were not assigned particular subjects but were encouraged to write from their personal experiences and viewpoints. The poems are honest and personal and sometimes reflect harsh realities in each student’s life. They are all well-written and create word pictures of place and time.

The Authors Guild of Tennessee is proud to publish these outstanding literary accomplishments on our website with parental consent for students who are minors.

Creative Writing Contest

Lenoir City High School

1^st Semester 2023-24

In the first semester of the 2023-4 school year, Angela Crabtree, teacher of the junior/senior writing classes at Lenoir City High School, selected poetry as the literary form for the Creative Writing Contest sponsored by the Authors Guild of Tennessee.

The first- and second-place winners in Ms. Crabtree’s two classes are linked under this notice. The students were not assigned particular subjects or themes but were encouraged to write from their personal experiences and viewpoints. As you will see, the poems are honest and personal, and sometimes reflect harsh realities in each student’s unique perspective on life. They are all well-written and skillfully create word pictures of place and time.

The Authors Guild of Tennessee is proud to publish these outstanding literary accomplishments on our website.

Daddy’s Little Girl – Kara Gresham

A Broken Soul – Abner Alvarado

The Mother – Reagan Griffith

Home – Christopher Lopez