The Fellowship of Southern Writers is a literary organization founded in 1987 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by 21 Southern writers and other literary luminaries. The group meets in every odd-numbered year, usually during the Chattanooga Arts & Education Council Conference on Southern Literature.

In 2007, the fellowship formalized its own structure, electing its first board of directors and hiring its first executive director, Susan Robinson.^[1]

Charter members

Elected members

Awards and honors

• The Hillsdale Prize for Fiction
• The Hanes Prize for Poetry
• The Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
• The Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama
• The Cecil Woods, Jr. Prize for Non-Fiction
• The Fellowship's New Writing Award for Fiction
• The James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South
• The Fellowship's New Award for Poetry
• The Cleanth Brooks Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Southern Letters