Southern Lit Alliance loves its volunteers! Jessica York is So Lit’s newest UTC intern, and she has been helping out with everything from...

Founded by Dr. Victoria Bryan nearly two years ago, the Turn The Page Literacy Initiative offers literary arts education to inmates in...

Young Southern Student Writers (YSSW) is more than just an annual writing competition. It is a chance for emerging creatives in the...

It’s an exciting time to be working at So Lit. With Young Southern Student Writers just around the corner, another Southbound event at...

Howard Brown, one of our fabulous board members, is a published poet and storyteller! Recently, Howard’s poems “Obliquity,” “Rescued,”...

THE GLOAMING Look, day is finished, night almost come. Dark mountains crowd the horizon, the sky awash in a pale half-light, air...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SILENCE I know I’ve never listened as I did yesterday to anything like the compelling seduction of absolute silence while sitting in my...

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...

© 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...

So Lit’s summer intern, Celia Heard, shares her summer reading list for 2016! While living my university life out as an English major,...

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...

While Gold Fame Citrus is about natural disaster and energy crises, author Claire Vaye Watkins seems more interested in humanity’s...

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....

Program Director Rhett Reeves shares her favorite ideas for heartfelt gifts from businesses, friends, and partners in Chattanooga and...

Howard Brown's "Pariah" won the first-place prize in poetry in the Faulkner Literary Competition hosted by the Union County Historical...

Usually, when I search for a new book to read, I experience an inward conflict. Should I read something recently published, or should I...