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• Hats Off to Sheila Turnage!

  Created: Tuesday, 31 July 2012 08:21

    Hats Off! to Sheila Turnage, whose new kids novel Three Times Lucky is recommended middle-grade summertime reading by the Washington Post's "KidsPost," Publishers Weekly, and The Horn Book, among others. Go Mo and Dale!...

• Hats Off to Tim Bullard!

  Created: Friday, 27 July 2012 12:59

    Hats Off! to Tim Bullard, whose first book, Haunted Watauga County, was referred to in a recent Associate Press article by national correspondent Allen G. Breed. The piece was on the renovations at Green Park Inn in Blowing Rock. The AP was picked up ...

• Hats Off to David Radavich!

  Created: Friday, 27 July 2012 09:46

    Hats Off! to David Radavich, who has received the 2012 Zelda and Paul Gitlin Literary Award for the best essay published on Thomas Wolfe during 2011. The award was presented at the May conference of the Thomas Wolfe Society in Asheville. Radavich serv...

• Hats Off to Steve Mitchell!

  Created: Thursday, 26 July 2012 06:12

    Hats Off! to Steve Mitchell, who won Second Place in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition with his short story "Currency." Mitchell's short story collection, The Naming of Ghosts, is available from Press 53....

• Hats Off to Sandra Ann Winters!

  Created: Friday, 20 July 2012 15:09

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ann Winters, who won First Place in the 2012 Carteret Writers’ 21st Annual Writing contest ("Poetry"). First place winners each received $100 and a plaque. Manuscripts that placed in the contest will be published in Carteret Writ...

• Hats Off toFlora Ann Scearce!

  Created: Friday, 20 July 2012 11:06

    Hats Off! to Flora Ann Scearce, who won First Place in the 2012 Carteret Writers’ 21st Annual Writing Contest ("Fiction") and Third Place in the "Writing for Children" category. First Place winners each received $100 and a plaque. Second and third p...

• Hats Off to Betty Dotson-Lewis!

  Created: Friday, 20 July 2012 07:58

    Hats Off! to Betty Dotson-Lewis, whose novel, The Girl From Stretchneck Holler: Inside Appalachia, was a featured Book of the Week at Chick Lit Central....

• Hats Off to Joan Leotta!

  Created: Monday, 16 July 2012 08:39

    Hats Off! to Joan Leotta, who won Second Prize in the Nineteenth Annual Artists Embassy International's Dancing Poetry Contest for her poem "Harvest Moon on Stipp Street." The prize includes a check for $25 and an invitation to read the poem on Septem...

• Hats Off to Debra Madaris Efird!

  Created: Thursday, 12 July 2012 08:53

    Hats Off! to Debra Madaris Efird, who has the feature article in the Summer 2012 issue of The Carolinas Today travel magazine. It is entitled "Southport...So Stunning It Leaves You Breathless."...

• Hats Off to Kathryn Lovatt, Gary Powell, Gregg Cusick, and Arthur Powers!

  Created: Friday, 06 July 2012 13:00

    Hats Off! to Kathryn Lovatt, Gary Powell, Gregg Cusick, and Arthur Powers: all of whom were honored in the 2012 Press 53 Open Awards: Short Story competition. Kathryn claimed First Place for her story "How to Euthanize a Fish." Gary received an Honora...

• Hats Off to Art Taylor, Arthur Powers, and Jane Shlensky!

  Created: Friday, 06 July 2012 11:00

    Hats Off! to Art Taylor, Arthur Powers, and Jane Shlensky, who cleaned house in the 2012 Press 53 Open Awards: Flash Fiction. Art claimed First Prize for his story, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." Arthur and Jane were both named finalists for t...

• Hats Off to Peg Bresnahan!

  Created: Friday, 06 July 2012 08:27

  Hats Off! to Peg Bresnahan of Cedar Mountain, whose three poems won Second Prize at the 2012 Press 53 Open Awards: Poetry. The Final Judge was Tom Lombardo....

• Hats Off to Sandra Ervin Adams!

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2012 08:50

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, whose poetry chapbook, Through A Weymouth Window (2011), will be on display at Poets House in NYC during this year's Showcase throughout the month of July. This is the 20th year of the Showcase. Afterwards, her book wi...

• Hats Off to David Fuller Cook!

  Created: Tuesday, 03 July 2012 12:27

    Hats Off! to David Fuller Cook, whose unpublished YA manuscript The Adventure of Crow-Boy won an Honorable Mention in the 2012 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. The Adventure of Crow-boy, which includes illustrations by artist Susan Beebe, is the first ...

• Hats Off to Larry O. Nichols!

  Created: Monday, 02 July 2012 12:31

    Hats Off! to Larry O. Nichols, author of A Hobo Odyssey, who was interviewed recently on www.Valentinetti.com....