WNBA Nashville ChapterWe gather, celebrate, and serve book lovers in the
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Our new membership year began on June 1 so it's time to join for 2024-2025! Please go to our JOIN page and sign up with a new membership form (this must be completed every year) and pay your dues for our new year. So happy to have you with us!
Sept Book Club
Our next in-person book club meeting will be held on Thursday, September 26, at 7:00 p.m. at the Vertis Apartments, 4000 Hillsboro Pike, hosted by WNBA Nashville members Botum Chhay and Joanne Slaughter. The book will be Slow Noodles by Chantha Nguon with (WNBA Nashville member) Kim Green. Botum is planning to serve some glass noodles typical of the book’s setting. Exciting update! Co-Author Kim Green will be joining us! And we are hoping to have Author Chantha Nguon join us remotely from Cambodia!
Our hostesses suggest car pooling or parking in the Levy’s/Parnassus parking lot and crossing the street to their building. Joanne will meet guests in the lobby and escort them to the 12th floor event space. Book club discussions are open to all WNBA members and their guests. If you’ve been hoping to introduce a new friend to WNBA, this is your chance to do so in an intimate setting. If you want to attend, you must RSVP to coordinator Linda Harris. Use the contact page if you need her email address. 
Join us for a PREVIEW of Southern Festival of Books (October 26, 27) https://www.sofestofbooks.org/ featuring a special guest. Carrabba’s Italian Grill, 2110 Greenhills Village Drive, Nashville TN 37215.
We are starting a new feature on the website that will spotlight a few of our members so that we can get to know one another a little bit better. There's never enough time to socialize so maybe this will give us a head start on getting acquainted! Our first spotlight is on our Coffee With Authors chair Jennifer Sellers.
Hi!! My name is Jennifer Sellers. I’m a self-appointed Romance advocate and I first joined the WNBA at the Southern Festival of Books in 2022 By day I am a Financial Wellness Specialist teaching finance and investing to corporate employees, a profession I ended up in completely by accident. I’m also a veteran, having served in the US Navy. It’s a fun fact I like to share because almost no one believes me. However, if my knees and back could talk they would have a lot to say about it. My favorite thing I ever did for myself is pursue my degree in Creative Writing at Lipscomb University. It was hard and so so sooooooo much fun and I wish every day I could repeat it over and over. I also have a Masters in Management from Lipscomb, and, as grateful as I am, I wouldn’t do it again if forced. By night I am a book nerd extraordinaire, organizing events such as Coffee with Authors and gobbling up as many ARCs as I can reasonably commit to. I have an amazing husband who was dumb enough to marry me on the beach during the BP oil spill of 2010. I, however, was smart enough to give him an economic disaster to reference so he would never forget how long we have been married. Aren’t I sweet? We have two amazing energetic and hilarious kids who will both have birthdays this month (September 2024) turning nine and six. The kids and I love crafting and getting messy and all of us love being outside together doing almost anything. Right now, I am trying to share my love of reading with my oldest, but she is more interested in writing. She just finished her first short story titled Pencil Brothers. This girl is seriously amazing, and she won’t even be nine until Monday. I need her dedication so I can finish my own manuscript! If you like to craft, read romance, write romance, talk about romance books, have kids that are the same age as mine, or are simply fun to hang out with please reach out. I love getting to know new people. I am terrible about posting on social media, but better about responding. You can find me on Instagram @jennifer_n_sellers and @jn_sellers. one is personal and one is books and theater only. Pick your favorite and send me a message! xoxo Jennifer Southern Festival of Books 2024
Only three months until the 2024 Southern Festival of Books! Humanities Tennessee has announced the author lineup for the Festival which will be held October 26-27 at the Tennessee State Library and Archive, Tennessee State Museum, and Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. Looking to help make the Festival happen? First-time volunteers and returning volunteers are needed to fulfill volunteer roles prior to and during the big Festival weekend. There are loads of opportunities from session room monitor and greeter to bookplate sticker affixer and clean-up crew. Please note that volunteers will mainly work outdoors, in all weather conditions, and will be asked to stand for extended periods. We will do our best to accommodate our volunteers with special needs or limited mobility. All shift times are approximately three hours. As a volunteer, you are invited to our festival Saturday Night Party where you will be welcomed, appreciated, and thanked for your time and service to the Southern Festival of Books! Be looking for opportunities to volunteer for WNBA at the Festival in our booth and at our Coffee With Authors event in addition to volunteering for the Festival itself. Both are great ways to promote reading and books in Nashville! Authors in the Round, the annual fundraising special event featuring 40+ Festival authors, will be held Friday, October 25th at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Mark your calendar now! Reservations are required. |
Join WNBA Nashville for our Coffee With Authors event at the Southern Festival of Books on Saturday, October 26th, at the Tennessee State Museum. This year's authors will thrill your heart while they talk about writing Romance novels!
Use the QR code to register now! Tickets are free and they sell out quickly so don't wait to get yours! 
September 21, 2024 10:00 am Zoom Book Discussion 
They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him. But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina — and himself — that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.
You're Invited...
Use the QR code or click on this link to register.
On July 25th our inaugural in-person book club for 2024 was held at Linda Harris’s home. Our group of ten discussed The Light Pirate, drank a little wine and then had an amazing conversation about our lives, books, and the ways our experiences intersect or can help each other.
We were all thrilled with the company and immediately talked about getting together soon. In the foreground is an original piece of art that Linda owns by illustrator/ writer and book club attendee Janet Lee! (Linda’s cat Lincoln is in the background on his throne.) BAP Fair UpdateThe Books, Authors, and Publishers Fair has been moved to March 1, 2025, to coincide with the Nashville Wellness Fest. Both events will be held at the Nashville Fairgrounds. Click on the links above for more information.
Did you realize there are more pages on our website than this one? Click above the website header on the three lines or the plus sign to find the links to our other pages. You'll find lots more content and information! WNBA Loves Books!
We write them, we publish them, we sell them, we teach children and adults to read and appreciate them, we loan them, we borrow them, we give them, we read them, we listen to them, and we share them with friends. --Lee Fairbend |
About the Nashville Chapter
Since 1955, the Nashville chapter of the Women’s National Book Association has been promoting reading, supporting literacy, and advancing the role of women in the community of the book. We offer informative programs and networking opportunities from September through May, a book discussion group that meets six times a year, and various charitable and outreach activities
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Questions?
All events, with the exception of the annual Christmas dinner and the Garden Party, are free and open to the public. For more information, or to request a Zoom code, contact [email protected]