The Friends of the Knox County Public Library will present: “Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in  the South,” an anthology by Julia Watts and co-editor Larry Smith. The stories challenge stereotypes and show that people of the South are as varied as the region’s landscape.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Knox County Public Library, Knox County Public Library and the East Tennessee Historical Society.

Watts and six contributors will be present: poet and author James E. Cherry; Mahayla Smith, past recipient of the Knoxville Writers Guild award for both short fiction and creative nonfiction; debut author Melanie Haws; Tom Ray, author whose recent short story Thumbing to Morristown was published on FICTION on the WEB, the oldest short story website; David Hunter, author and editorial page columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel for 27 years; and Charles Dodson White, author and co-editor of two Appalachian anthologies.