Recorded interview with North Georgia Writers Group featuring: Barbara Tucker, Becky Wooley, Devereaux Chivington-Stebbins, and Pamela Pettyjohn, with host Mark Anderson. During the global health crisis of 2020 CWG has not been able to meet in the Chattanooga City Library, so we have been recording interviews with our members. We want to make all of... Continue Reading →
January Contest
Open now for submissions to the January monthly contest. The CWG monthly contest is free to all CWG members, awards $25- to each winner, publishes the winning pieces on the CWG website, and in The Pulse online magazine. See complete rules here: monthly-contest-rulesOpen Our theme for January is "Uncertainty." Our judge will be Ann Thornfield-Long,... Continue Reading →
December Contest Winner
Our theme for December's contest was "Closure." Winners of the CWG monthly contest receive $25- award and the piece is published here on the CWG website, and in The Pulse online magazine. Ray Zimmerman won (for the second time!) for his creative non-fiction entry The Dance of Leaves. Ray Zimmerman began writing freelance journalism in 1988, He... Continue Reading →
Winter Writers Workshop
Saturday January 23, 2021; an online interactive presentation John C. Mannone presents: The Intersection of Science with Art with a focus on Literary Arts This workshop is based on the premise that society as a whole should remove disconnections between science and art, and will explore why our understanding of writing should fuse science with... Continue Reading →
2020 Anthology
The 2020 Anthology is now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Chattanooga-Writers-Guild/e/B08PDR3R2C Cover by Michelle Young This year we chose to create our anthology with a theme to represent the City of Chattanooga, which may be the adopted home for many of us, and the city we have grown to adore. This edition contains featured writing dedicated to... Continue Reading →
On Finding Venues to Submit to—For the Beginner
By John C. Mannone John C. Mannone is former President of CWG 2016-2019 and currently sits on the board of directors. He has poetry in North Dakota Quarterly, Le Menteur, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry South, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, New England Journal of Medicine, and others. He won the Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature... Continue Reading →