THE DEADLINE FOR THE 2025 ISSUE IS MAY 1, 2025 The editor and the editorial board of the Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society welcomes submissions of manuscripts related to the history of the Jackson Purchase region for possible publication in the Journal. The Jackson Purchase, which encompasses most of west Tennessee and southwest Kentucky, was added to the United States in 1818 through a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians. Manuscripts of articles, annotated documents, and interviews related to the Jackson Purchase will be considered for publication in the Journal. The editor welcomes manuscripts addressing such traditional topics as…
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Next week, the creative writing program will host its first visiting author of the academic year. Award-winning novelist Jennifer Haigh will give a writer’s talk on Thursday, October 24 at 2:00pm in Faculty Hall 208. Later that evening, at 7:30pm in the Curris Center Theater, she will read from her work. We hope to see you there! *********** BIO: Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Since then, she has published six more critically-acclaimed works of fiction, most recently Mercy Street — named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and winner…