MEET JESSICA YORK: OUR UTC INTERN
Southern Lit Alliance loves its volunteers! Jessica York is So Lit’s newest UTC intern, and she has been helping out with everything from...
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SoLit Blog and Book Reviews
Lynda LeVan
Mar 28, 20172 min read
MEET THE TURN THE PAGE LITERACY INITIATIVE
Founded by Dr. Victoria Bryan nearly two years ago, the Turn The Page Literacy Initiative offers literary arts education to inmates in...
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David Haynes
Mar 21, 20172 min read
YSSW Spotlight: 2016 Winner Dylan Thomas
Young Southern Student Writers (YSSW) is more than just an annual writing competition. It is a chance for emerging creatives in the...
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David Haynes
Mar 7, 20172 min read
Meet Lynda LeVan: Our New Executive Director!
It’s an exciting time to be working at So Lit. With Young Southern Student Writers just around the corner, another Southbound event at...
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David Haynes
Mar 1, 20173 min read
Howard Brown & The Beauty Of Capturing Small Moments
Howard Brown, one of our fabulous board members, is a published poet and storyteller! Recently, Howard’s poems “Obliquity,” “Rescued,”...
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Lynda LeVan
Sep 29, 20161 min read
"The Gloaming" by William Howard Brown
THE GLOAMING Look, day is finished, night almost come. Dark mountains crowd the horizon, the sky awash in a pale half-light, air...
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Rose Dallimore
Aug 5, 20162 min read
Virtual Open Mic V
young joints, or a sonnet for someone i think i know her graceful hand, more fragile than the rain, like a call to the angry heavens...
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Billy Faires
Aug 4, 20161 min read
Virtual Open Mic IV
HIGH CHAIR We are drooling love-eaters Love lands on our trays in bite-sized chunks Some of it stringy and fibrous and other chunks sweet...
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Crystal White
Aug 3, 20163 min read
Virtual Open Mic III
HONESTY IN CHAOS I. A dusty garden of radishes So hot they burned my tongue My dead father’s deader dreams Long gone—and yet, I...
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Susan Jones
Aug 2, 20162 min read
Virtual Open Mic II
AFTER LIFE will ties of kinship mark us like scar tissue tracks the deep blade a surgeon slid next to the spinal cord--carving out the...
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George Hess
Aug 1, 20161 min read
Virtual Open Mic I
SILENCE I know I’ve never listened as I did yesterday to anything like the compelling seduction of absolute silence while sitting in my...
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Celia Heard
Jul 20, 20162 min read
Revitalibrary Phase One: The Purge
At Southern Lit Alliance, we’re dedicated to stories. We believe that great stories live here and do our best to reach out into the...
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Carlotta Lively
Jul 20, 20163 min read
Found
© Rock Creek Aviation I am driving down the mountain now, and as the road winds down to the left the city below, the river valley, and...
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Celia Heard
Jun 10, 20163 min read
The Intern Speaks: Summer Reading Round-Ups
So Lit’s summer intern, Celia Heard, shares her summer reading list for 2016! While living my university life out as an English major,...
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David Haynes
May 10, 20162 min read
From the Intern's Desk: Family Matters
It's our last SOUTH BOUND lecture of 2016, and we're lightening the mood! Over the past few months, we have been challenged to think...
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David Haynes
Mar 31, 20162 min read
From The Intern's Desk: Gold Fame Citrus and the South Bound Community
While Gold Fame Citrus is about natural disaster and energy crises, author Claire Vaye Watkins seems more interested in humanity’s...
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Dave Connis
Jan 18, 20163 min read
Spotlight on Rick Bragg
As a former Yankee living in the South, I often feel the need to apologize for the amount of things I don’t know about Southern culture....
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Rhett Reeves
Dec 11, 20153 min read
So LIT with Christmas Spirit!
Program Director Rhett Reeves shares her favorite ideas for heartfelt gifts from businesses, friends, and partners in Chattanooga and...
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Rhett
Sep 29, 201516 min read
Fresh Ink: Howard Brown Returns to Mississippi for Literary Award
Howard Brown's "Pariah" won the first-place prize in poetry in the Faulkner Literary Competition hosted by the Union County Historical...
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Rhett
Jan 26, 20154 min read
Rhett's 5 for 2015 Reading List
Usually, when I search for a new book to read, I experience an inward conflict. Should I read something recently published, or should I...
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