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• Hats off to Sheila Turnage!

  Created: Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:12

    Hats Off! to Sheila Turnage, whose children's novel Three Times Lucky has been named an "Okra Pick"—or one of the summer's best Southern-flavored new books—by the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA). The book is also on SIBA's Bes...

• Hats Off to Sandra Ervin Adams!

  Created: Thursday, 31 May 2012 08:09

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, who had two poems, "Surrender" and "Storm," published in the new poetry anthology, Surrounded: Living With Islands. The book was authored by Sheryl Clough, MFA of Write Wing Publishing....

• Hats Off to LC Fiore and Liza Wieland!

  Created: Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:52

    Hats Off! to LC Fiore and Liza Wieland, who were both finalists in the 2011 Balcones Fiction Prize: Fiore for his debut novel, Green Gospel, and Wieland for her collection of stories, Quickening....

• Hats Off to Glenda Beall!

  Created: Monday, 21 May 2012 08:31

    Hats Off! to Glenda Beall whose poem, "One Flaw", was published in the most-recent issue of Wild Goose Poetry Review....

• Hats Off to Gary Carden!

  Created: Thursday, 17 May 2012 13:15

  Hats Off! to Gary Carden, who was interviewed recently on WRGC by morning personality Roy Burnette. They talked about everything from Gary's new play Outlander (opens Saturday June 2, 2012 at the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville) to the next Liars Bench sh...

• Hats Off to Valerie Nieman and LC Fiore!

  Created: Thursday, 17 May 2012 08:10

    Hats Off! to Valerie Nieman and LC Fiore. Nieman and her novel, Blood Clay, won the General Fiction category of the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, while Fiore's debut, Green Gospel, was named First Runner-Up. Nieman was also short-listed for the Monta...

• Hats Off to Lisa Williams Kline

  Created: Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:25

    Hats Off! to Lisa Williams Kline, whose new book, Summer of the Wolves, received the following favorable review from Kirkus: "Blended families that resist blending are a middle-grade–fiction staple, but this funny, gentle and ...

• Has Off to Sandra Ervin Adams!

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:23

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, who had three winning poems in the 2012 Fields of Earth Poetry Contest sponsored by Writers' Ink Guild. "The Thread" won third place in the love category; "Sanctuary in the Park" won an honorable mention in the religio...

• Hats Off to Sandra Ann Winters!

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:00

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ann Winters, whose poem "Talking to Okra, from the Son's Voice," has won first place in the Carteret Writers 21st annual writing contest. Her poem will be published in SHOAL 2012....

• Hats Off to Debra Madaris Efird!

  Created: Monday, 14 May 2012 11:08

  Hats Off! to Debra Madaris Efird, who has has two travel articles in the Spring 2012 issue of The Carolinas Today magazine. They are entitled "In Celebration of Calabash" and "Charleston: An Unparalleled Treasure."...

• Hats Off to Scott Owens!

  Created: Friday, 11 May 2012 14:39

    Hats Off! to Scott Owens, whose collection of poems, Something Knows the Moment , has been named one of five finalists for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards....

• Hats Off to Philip Gerard!

  Created: Friday, 11 May 2012 14:34

    Hats Off! to Philip Gerard, whose collection of essays, The Patron Saint of Dreams , won the Gold Medal in Creative Nonfiction in the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards. The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of ex...

• Hats Off to Brenda Kay Ledford!

  Created: Monday, 07 May 2012 06:30

    Hats Off! to Brenda Kay Ledford, whose three poems won the 2012 "Fields of the Earth Poetry Contest" sponsored by Writers' Ink Guild. "Fishing," received first place in the nature category, "Progress," got third place in the nature category, and "The ...

• Hats Off to MariJo Moore!

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2012 10:30

    Hats Off! to MariJo Moore, who was featured in the May-June issue of Southern Writers Magazine....

• Hats Off to Gregg Cusick, Ronald Jackson, and Kathryn Lovatt!

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2012 08:30

    Hats Off! to Gregg Cusick, Ronald Jackson, and Kathryn Lovatt, whose stories were selected as Honorable Mentions in the 2012 Doris Betts Fiction Prize contest. To read nice things about each of the Honorable Mentions, click here....

• Hats Off to Ed Southern!

  Created: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 11:18

    Hats Off! to NCWN Executive Director Ed Southern, who was featured in the May-June issue of Southern Writers Magazine....