Bob Mustin of Asheville, NC, is the winner of the 2008 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award for his essay “Grandpa Tom’s Cane.” Mustin will receive a prize of $300 from the North Carolina Writers’ Network, as well as possible publication in The Rambler magazine.
Final judge Kirsten Holmstedt, author of Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq, said of Mustin’s essay: “The reader, like the narrator, is hooked from the beginning. The narrator’s voice is so honest and real.”
Holmstedt awarded second place to Lynne Tanner or Rutherfordton, NC, for her essay “Summer 1951,” noting how the “opening scene . . . grabs the reader’s attention.” Durham resident David Frauenfelder took third prize with his essay, “Near Lamy.” Holmstedt cited the essay’s “wonderful attention to detail.”
Tanner and Frauenfelder will receive $200 and $100, respectively.
The annual Rose Post Creative Nonfiction competition encourages the creation of lasting nonfiction work that is outside the realm of conventional journalism. Subjects may include traditional categories such as reviews, travel articles, profiles or interviews, place/history pieces, or culture criticism.
Last night I returned to North Carolina from a much-needed long weekend, and I’m back at my desk this morning.
I will, however, be out of the office again today for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours, as I hope all of you will be today, too - unless you voted early.
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Don’t forget that the 2008 Induction Ceremony for the NC Literary Hall of Fame will be this Sunday, October 19, at 2 p.m., at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
James Applewhite, William S. Powell, and Lee Smith are this year’s inductees. [...]
I’ve found, or been sent, so many good links and other tidbits of interest to writers, I hardly know where to start.
Let’s begin with an interview with Ron Rash, the keynote speaker at the 2008 Fall Conference and author of the new novel Serena, from today’s Shelf Awareness:
Book Brahmins: Ron Rash
Ron Rash is the author [...]
Hat's Off!
...to Eleanora E. Tate, whose eleventh book, Celeste's Harlem Renaissancewasreleased by Little Brown Books for Young Readers and has sparked a well-received "Celeste's Walking Tour" of downtown Raleigh. Her short story, "Root Beer Sit-In" was published by Scholastic Storyworks Magazine earlier this year and her chapter book Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School , was reprinted by Just Us Books, Inc. Publishers in February.
