December 1992 First Meeting

March 1993 First board elected

September 1993 First Luminous Word

January 1994 Membership hits 100!

June 1994 First Les Garrett Short Fiction Awards

October 1994 Voices from the Valley, 1st anthology

April 1996 1st Libba Moore Gray Poetry Prize

May 1996 1st Young Writers Prize

October 1996 All Around Us: Poems from the Valley, 2nd anthology 1997 Writers Alive!

1998 Senior Citizens' Project:The Voice of Memory, 3rd anthology

1998 December - website created  

1999  1st Summer Writing Workshop

October 2000 The 1st Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 2000 The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts - DeWitt Henry judged by George Garrett

November 2000 Breathing the Same Air:  An East Tennessee Anthology, 4th anthology

October 2001 The 2nd Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 2001 A House All Stilled - A.G. Harmon judged by Doris Betts

April 2002
Carson Brewer is selected for the first Career Achievement Award. The Guild presents its first Gala announcing Guild Contest winners.

October 2002 Literary Lunch, our 5th anthology, debuts
The 3rd Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 2002
Blue - Sara Van Arsdale judged by Alan Cheuse

December 2002 The Guild celebrates its 10th anniversary!

April 2003
George Scarbrough is selected for the Career Achievement Award.

October 2003 The 4th Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 2003 Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World That is Heartbroken - Eliezer Sobel judged by John Casey

April 2004
Wilma Dykeman is selected for the Career Achievement Award.

October 2004 Migrants & Stowaways: An Anthology of Journeys, 6th anthology.

October 2004
The 5th Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 2004
Fire on Mount Maggiore - John Parras judged by Barry Hannah

April 2005
Jon Manchip White is selected for the Career Achievement Award.

June 2006
Jeff Daniel Marion is selected for the Career Achievement Award.

October 2006
The 6th Tennessee Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 2005
Blood Kin - Mark Powell judged by Jill McCorkle

October 2006
Low Explosions: Writings on the Body is the Guild's 7th anthology. Editor, Casie Fedukovich with Steve Sparks.