About MTCW

Welcome to Middle Tennessee Christian Writers . . . the place for Christian fiction writers in Middle Tennessee!

MTCW was founded in 2004 by Kaye Dacus, Jill Johnson, Diane Moody, and Joan Shoup (w/a J.M. Hochstetler) as a local group of American Christian Fiction Writers (then American Christian Romance Writers). Craving the fellowship of other writers, these four joined together and began meeting monthly. As each met other writers, the group began to grow.

In 2006, with a membership more than tripled in size, the group voted to organize as Middle Tennessee Christian Writers. Our membership represents writers from all along the spectrum, from those just getting started with writing fiction to multi-published, award-winning authors.

If you live in the Middle Tennessee area and feel God is calling you into the arena of fiction writing and you need to learn how to do it, or if you’ve been published for years and would like the support of a loving, friendly, knowledge-seeking group of fellow writers, please post a comment and one of our moderators will be in touch with you shortly. Or, you can visit one of our monthly meetings. Meeting location, date, and time will be posted on the blog.

Diane Moody, J.M. Hochstetler, Jill Johnson, Rebeca Seitz, Karen Wevick, Jessica Dotta, Kaye Dacus, and Rebecca Deel
at the ACFW National Conference, September 2005, Nashville, Tennessee