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  • Hats Off to Danny Bernstein!

      Hats Off! to Danny Bernstein, who received a contract from History Press for her new book, Walking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail: 1,000 through North Carolina. The 2011 Squire Summer Residency did a lot to kickstart the project. The tentative publication...
  • Hats Off to Nathan Ross Freeman!

      Hats Off! to Nathan Ross Freeman, whose teen group, Authoring Action, will travel to Harvard University this weekend to engage and share their writing process with the Graduate School of Education. There will be a simple round table Q&A forum from...
  • Hats Off to Scott Owens!

      Hats Off! to Scott Owens, whose poem, "Rails," from his new book For One Who Knows How to Own Land, will be featured on Garrison Keillor's NPR show The Writers Almanac on April 29. You can listen live or on the website (www.writersalmanac.publicradio....
  • Hats Off to Rita Berman!

      Hats Off! to Rita Berman, whose book Still Hopping, Still Hoping, a biography of Carla Shuford, has been picked up and re-published by Righter Publishing Company and now includes Carla's stories and poems....
  • Hats Off to Marilynn Barner Anselmi!

      Hats Off! to Marilynn Barner Anselmi, whose play, The Waters of Bimini, was named a semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference....
  • Hats Off to L.C. Fiore!

      Hats Off! to L.C. Fiore, whose debut novel, Green Gospel, was short-listed as a finalist in the 2012 First Horizon Book Award....
  • Hats Off to Margaret A. Harrell!

      Hats Off! to Margaret A. Harrell. Rain Taxi Review of Books has reviewed her memoir, Keep This Quiet!, concluding that "Three men, embodiments of three different dimensions of the late 1960’s Zeitgeist—wispy dissolution, language-charged intellect...
  • Hats Off to Tim Bullard!

      Hats Off! to writer Tim Bullard, who had a tourism and travel article published recently in The Thomasville Times with photography. The full-page spread was edited by Kathy Stuart and included information on "daycation" destinations in Forsyth County ...
  • Hats Off to Margaret Harrell!

      Hats Off! to Margaret Harrell, whose memoir, Keep This Quiet! My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert , has a two-page spread in the new issue of the quarterly UK literary magazine Beat Scene. Keep This Quiet! is also...
  • Hats Off to Shelley Stack!

      Hats Off! to Shelley Stack, whose short story, "How We Play It," has been accepted for publication by Euphony and is now live!...
  • Hats Off to Debra Madaris Efird!

      Hats Off! to Debra Madaris Efird, who was recently recognized as a Finalist in the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize contest and learned that her article, "Celebrating Colleagues," appears in the American School Counselor Association state newsletters this s...
  • Hats Off to Kermit Turner!

      Hats Off! to Kermit Turner, whose short story, "Pool," received an Honorable Mention for the 2012 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network....
  • Hats Off to Art Taylor!

      Hats Off! to Art Taylor, whose story, "A Drowning at Snow's Cut," shared the 2012 Derringer Award for Best Long Story with Karen Pullen's "Brea's Tale." Art's story was also featured in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's podcast series here....
  • Hats Off to Brenda Kay Ledford!

      Hats Off! to Brenda Kay Ledford, who won the Royce Ray Poetry Award for her poem, "Lake Chatuge," which appears in the January, 2012 issue of Aries: A Journal of Art and Literature....