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Significantly Southern: Conference on local literature comes to town this week
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If you go What: Awards ceremony for Young Southern Writers Contest Where: Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St. When: Kindergarten through fifth-grade awards, 6 to 7 p.m.; middle and high school awards, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Admission: Free
About 1,000 people are expected to visit Chattanooga for the four-day Celebration of Southern Literature that starts Thursday.
At least that many proud parents and family members from the Chattanooga area are expected to pack into the Tivoli Theatre Tuesday night to see some 400 kindergarten through 12th-grade students honored in the Young Southern Writers Contest.
“It’s a big deal,” said Joe Wilferth, an English professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. “The kids come, they’re decked out like they’re going to Sunday school. It’s a full house. Each kid gets a medal.”