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Home Again: An evening of story, song, and belonging

Local author Mariah Friend and Ghanaian-born musician and Hamilton County educator Kofi Mawuko will headline Home Again: An Evening of Story, Song, and Belonging, a benefit for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), on Thursday, Nov. 5, at Songbirds, 206 W. Main St. The evening pairs a reading from Friend's debut novel The Pattern Shop with a conversation on migration and belonging moderated by Hope Henchey, and a performance by Mawuko's eight-piece Ogya World Music Band.

Please Vote for the 2026 Silver Falchion Readers’ Choice Award!

Unbroken Circle by CWG novelist C. S. Devereaux named finalist for the Silver Falchion Literary Award for best historical crime fiction novel for 2025/2026. If you have not done already done so, please cast your vote here for Unbroken Circle by CWG novelist C. S. Devereaux for the 2026 Silver Falchion Readers' Choice Award.

Winners: 3-Way Contest

The Chattanooga Writers' Guild is excited to announce the winners of our recent 3-Way Contest in which writers were challenged to include each of these three words in their entries: rust, cut, and window. The winners whose works are excerpted below are as follows: Alexandria Kelly, Sue Carol Elvin, M.D. (Peggy) Roblyer, Jenna Ziegler, L.B. Blackwell, Sherry Poff, and Chris Wood.

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