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Humanities Tennessee

Statewide nonprofit founded in 1973 as the Tennessee Humanities Council; it runs the Southern Festival of Books and publishes the online journal Chapter 16.

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Website
humanitiestennessee.org

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615 Main St, Suite B19
Nashville, Tennessee 37206
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Humanities Tennessee is a statewide nonprofit, founded in 1973 as the Tennessee Humanities Council. It is Tennessee’s affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and runs public programs on ideas, stories, history, arts and culture, alongside grants to museums and community organizations.

Its literary programs include the Southern Festival of Books, which it first held in 1989; Chapter 16, the online journal of Tennessee books and writers it founded in 2009; Young Writers’ Workshops; Student Reader Day; and the Tennessee Book Award.

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  • humanitiestennessee.org

    Founded 1973; formerly the Tennessee Humanities Council; nonprofit; state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; mission; programs.

  • humanitiestennessee.org

    Address; program list; first Southern Festival of Books held in 1989 as the Tennessee Humanities Council.

  • chapter16.org

    Humanities Tennessee founded Chapter 16 in 2009.

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