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  • Hats Off to Tony Brown

    .... to Tony Brown. He  will have his short story, "A Once In A Lifetime Thing" published in Down in the Dirt magazine in April, 2011. "The Easter Gift" was published in the September 2010 issue of The Storyteller. ...
  • Hats off to Tony Brown

    Tony Brown received first-place in the Creative Nonfiction category of Union County Writers' 2010 Writing Competition for "A Laugh For Giorgio" and read the winning entry at the awards ceremony in Monroe on January 18. ...
  • Hats Off to Jan B. Parker

    . . . to Jan B. Parker, who earned Second Place in the Methodist University 2011 Emerging Writers Contest as judged by Lorraine Lopez, and will read from her work, "Mayme," at the Southern Writers' Symposium on February 26. Please visit http://www.methodi...
  • Hats Off to David Halperin

    Publishers Weekly and BookList wrote favorable reviews of David Halperin's new book, Journal of a UFO Investigator. You can read these on David Halperin's website Halperin will also be  doing a series of guest blogs for www.litfestmagazine.com...
  • Hats Off to Rachel Pollock

    Rachel Pollock's piece entitled, "Until Morale Improves" was included in the anthology, Confessions: Fact or Fiction?,  edited by Herta Feely. Website: http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Herta-Feely-Chrysalis-Editorial/dp/1609106091/  ...
  • Hats Off to Lookout Books

    Hats Off to Lookout Books, the literary imprint of the UNC-Wilmington's creative writing department. The imprint's debut novel, Binocular Vision: New & Selected Short Stories,  by Edith Pearlman, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Revie...
  • Hats Off to K.S. Crawford

    An excerpt from K. S. Crawford's historical novel, Keowee, was published in Wilderness House Literary Review, No. 5, Vol. 4 (www.whlreview.com)....
  • Hats Off to Karen Paul Holmes

    To Karen Paul Holmes for her poem "It's a Seagull Morning on Lake Chatuge" featured on Your Daily Poem on January 10, 2011, www.yourdailypoem.com...
  • Hats Off to Mary Lambeth Moore

    NCWN member Mary Lambeth Moore has published her first novel, Sleeping with Patty Hearst (www.sleepingwithpattyhearst.com), with Tigress Publishing.  Lee Smith says "I got completely swept up ... Moore is a natural storyteller with a great story to tell ...
  • Hats Off to Bill Cissna

    NCWN member Bill Cissna’s second full-length play script, All About Faith, will have a public stage reading on January 28 at Theatre Alliance, Winston-Salem. His short script, Communication Gap, will be one of 10 produced in Evening of Short Plays #24 a...
  • Hats Off to Rebecca Clay Haynes

    Rebecca Clay Haynes published her first short story, As She Lay Dying, in the Fall 2010 Edition of The Binnacle, published by the University of Maine. (Unfortunately, the issue is not yet posted online, but the print version is available.)...
  • Hats Off to Rachel Unkefer

    NCWN member Rachel Unkefer's story "No Harm Done" was awarded third place in the 2010 Shaking Like a Mountain Fiction Open. The story, on which final edits and submission were done during the NCWN fall conference in Charlotte, can be found at:http://shaki...
  • Hats Off to Erika Hoffman

    ... to Erika Hoffman, whose fantasy story, “A Strange Tail”, will appear in the Spring 2011 edition of Crooked Arm Pillow....
  • Hats Off to Art Taylor

    ...to Art Taylor, whose short story "Up, Up and Away" has been published in the online journal SmokeLong Quarterly.  Link to SmokeLong Quarterly: http://www.smokelong.com/flash/arttaylor30q.asp...
  • Hats Off to Kermit Turner

    OFinishing Line Press released Kermit Turner's  Sandy Ridge: Portrait of a Depression Family, a series of narrative poems depicting the struggles of a rural family in the NC Piedmont during The Great Depression.  The book may be purchased online at ww...
  • Hats Off to Maureen Wartski

    The News & Observer, North Raleigh News, printed this interview about Maureen Wartski recently. Here's the link:http://www.northraleighnews.com/2010/11/28/5488/raleigh-author-makes-magic-with.html  ...
  • Hats Off to Anthony Abbott

    to Anthony Abbott, whose recent collection, New & Selected Poems 1989 – 2009 , received recognition from the Oscar Arnold Young Award of the North Carolina Poetry Council and the Brockman-Campbell Award of the North Carolina Poetry Society.  New & Sele...
  • Hats Off to Maureen Wartski

    Hats Off to Maureen Wartski. Her mid-grade novel, Yuri's Brush With Magic, was brought out by Sleepy Hollow Books this November....
  • Hats Off to Joseph Cavano

    Hats off to Joseph Cavano, whose flash fiction piece, “Tuesday Evening,” appears in the Fall issue of the print magazine, Thumbnail.  Cavano, a finalist in both the Doris Betts and the Elizabeth Simpson Smith contest this year, has crafted a story ...
  • Hats Off to Sandra Ervin Adams

    Sandra Ervin Adams had two poems, "Seasons End", and "Off Season", published at http://www.juddshill.com/ (Arts & Recipes, Poetry 2010 Contest). Wine and grapes is the theme of all poems in the contest, since Judd's Hill is a winery in California's Napa V...