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 1st 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.
October
2007
The 7th Tennessee
Book Award - Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel 2006
Run
in the Fam'ly
- John J. McLaughlin judged by Jon Manchip White
Christmas 2007 Collection is published.
April 2008
David
Hunter is selected for the Career Achievement Award.
October 2008
Outscape:
Writings on Fences and Frontiers is the Guild's 8th anthology.
Editors: Jessie Janeshek and Jesse Graves.
October 2011
New anthology with theme
of diversity. Editors: Kay Newton and Doris Ivie