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53 Tenn. B.J. 22 (2017)
It's Not Lying If You Call It Fiction - The Sentence; Get through Together

handle is hein.barjournals/tnbarjrnl0053 and id is 348 raw text is: FEA TRE STORY It's not lying if you call it fiction.* Since we had never done this before and we didn't want to mess it up, for the Tennessee Bar Journals first fiction contest we spent some time pondering, researching, pondering some more. That didn't seem like enough so we consulted with other bar associations that have serious, long-term creative writing contests. We would not want to begin such an undertaking without the expertise of our friends at the State Bar of Arizona, the State Bar of Texas, The liiissom far JIyfrlh/s first fiction Contest Draws Creative Stories, Tall Tales *No fact-checks or footnotes! and the State Bar of Georgia. They and many others gave excellent advice, cautionary tales, as well as a couple of tales of actual woe. But on we pressed in our quest to provide an outlet for the pent-up creative writers among you. The members of the TBJs Editorial Board, avid readers themselves, of course, were game to serve as judges. So our staff constructed a shadowy system where the judges would not know the identities of the writers of each submission, and our conversations with them became full of convoluted sentences to avoid use of personal pronouns and other identifying information. This turned out to be fun. The rules in the contest had been few: the writer must be a Tennessee Bar Associ- ation member, the entry could have no more than 3,500 words, and must have a connection, no matter how remote, to the law. (There were others in the fine print, but these were the biggies.) The top award, which includes a $100 gift card to the bookstore of choice (she chose Nashville's Parnassus), goes to Nashville lawyer Kristi Wilcox Arth for The Sentence. Honorable Mention goes to Knoxville lawyer D. Adam Moore for Get Through Together. The two stories are printed in these pages and can also be found online at tba.org/ journalfiction2017. The deadline for our second contest is March 12, 2018, and the winning entry will be published in the June 2018 issue. We look forward to reading your stories. - Suzanne Craig Robertson, editor 22 TENNESSEEBARJOURNAL AUGUST2017

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