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  • Hats Off! to Katherine Soniat

      Hats Off! to Katherine Soniat, who was named the recipient of this year’s Oscar Arnold Young Award for the best book of poetry from North Carolina for her collection entitled The Swing Girl, published by Louisiana State University Press....
  • Hats Off to Marjorie Hudson!

      Hats Off! to Marjorie Hudson, whose story collection Accidental Birds of the Carolinas has been selected BEST OF 2011 by the Perpetual Folly literary blog, and was also selected for Wilson Reads, a community-wide reading festival in Wilson, NC. Her s...
  • Hats Off to Joseph Cavano!

      Hats Off! to Joseph Cavano who has had two of his flash fiction pieces appear on Charlotteviewpoint.org. “ A Kind Face” appeared on August 30— “A Perfect Martini” on December 23. Stories remain on the site for several weeks and are always av...
  • Hats Off to L.C. Fiore!

      Hats Off! to L.C. Fiore, whose story, "No Wake Zone," appears in the new anthology, Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short Short Stories (Persea Books, 2011) along with stories from Ron Carlson, Dave Eggers, Alice Walker, and many others....
  • Hats Off to Patricia Smith!

      Hats Off! to Patricia Smith, who poem, "Before Orphan Unearthed the Mirror," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poem was published in the most recent issue of The Asheville Poetry Review....
  • Hats Off to Susan Seawolf Hayes!

      Hats Off! to Susan Seawolf Hayes, chosen as Adult Poet to be mentored by 2012 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Ann Deagon. Serendipity: Susan's home, a tiny log cabin in the wilds surrounding Pleasant Garden, was built by Ann in the '80s as her wri...
  • Hats Off to Sandra Ervin Adams!

      Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, whose poem, "At the Special Olympics," has been accepted for publication by rFISHc.com, which features poetry about some aspect of the human condition. Also, her poem, "Julie, It Seems Like I Know You," has been select...
  • Hats Off to Danny Johnson!

      Hats Off! to Danny Johnson, who has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by MilSpeak Books for flash fiction appearing in the September 2011 MilSpeak Memo....
  • Hats Off to Jan B. Parker!

      Hats Off! to Jan B. Parker, whose work, "First Camellia," will be published in the upcoming issue of Pear Noir. Visit Jan at www.writerjanbparker.com....
  • Hats Off to Maureen A. Sherbondy!

      Hats Off! to Maureen A. Sherbondy of Raleigh, who was awarded the Robert Watson Poetry Award by Spring Garden Press. A. Van Jordan selected her manuscript The Year of the Dead Fathers as the winner of this chapbook contest. Sherbondy is the first Nort...
  • Hats Off to Tony Brown!

      Hats Off! to Greenville author Tony Brown, whose short story "Incident At 258" has been accepted by The Write Place at the Write Time. Scheduled online publication date is December 1....
  • Hats Off to Rebecca Clay Haynes!

      Hats Off! to Rebecca Clay Haynes, whose short story, "My Sister Was an Only Child," was published in the November issue of Bartleby Snopes....
  • Hats Off to Laurel Ferejohn!

    Hats Off! to Laurel Ferejohn, recipient of a 2011-2012 Emerging Arts Grant from the Durham Arts Council for work toward the completion of her novel....
  • Hats Off to Ed and Janet Howle!

    Hats Off! to Ed and Janet Howle, co-authors, whose debut novel, The Long Road To Paris, made the"Best Fiction in 2011" as posted on Kirkus Reviews. See them read tonight at Barnhill's Books, 118 Burke St. in Winston-Salem....
  • Hats Off to Heather Newton!

      Hats Off! to Heather Newton, whose novel, Under The Mercy Trees, has won the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award given by the western NC Historical Association. Past winners include Lee Smith, Ron Rash, Tommy Hays, Charles Frazier, and Wayne Cal...
  • Hats Off! to Tony Brown...

      ...whose complete version of his creative nonfiction "Sis Nell" has been accepted for print publication in the United Kingdom's Vapid Kitten magazine. The piece originated in a workshop led by Marjorie Hudson in Pittsboro. A fifty-word version appeare...
  • Hats Off! to Chad Rohrbacher...

      ...whose first novel, Karma Backlash, has been picked up by Snubnose Press and will be published in 2012....
  • Hats Off! to Chad Rohrbacher...

      ...whose short story was anthologized in the recently published Lost Children: A Charity Anthology....
  • Hats Off! to Debra Madaris Efird...

      ...who has an article entitled "Finding Warmth," about her experience sleeping among the homeless, in the December 2011 issue of Gather, formerly known as Lutheran Woman Today....
  • Hats Off! to Tony Brown...

      ...whose short story, "Last Bus to Nashville," has been accepted by the University of Arkansas at Monticello's Foliate Oak journal. It's his ninth acceptance this year....