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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 08:53

 

Hats Off! to Heather Newton, whose novel, Under The Mercy Trees, has won the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award given by the western NC Historical Association. Past winners include Lee Smith, Ron Rash, Tommy Hays, Charles Frazier, and Wayne Caldwell.

 

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Hats Off! to David Hopes, who won Third Place for his poem "Spade" in the 2013 William Matthews Poetry Prize. His poem will be published in the Asheville Poetry Review, and he will be featured at a reading at Malaprop's Bookstore this summer.

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