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• Hats Off to Karen Paul Holmes!

  Created: Wednesday, 23 January 2013 07:57

    Hats Off! to Karen Paul Holmes, whose poem "White After Memorial Day" appears online in Southern Women's Review (page 67)....

• Hats Off to Sandra Ervin Adams!

  Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2013 08:00

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, who served as host to a middle school student for his Job Shadow project in the AVID class on January 16, 2013. The AVID class is a college preparatory course designed for middle school and high school students who are...

• Hats Off to Susan Snowden!

  Created: Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:23

    The Hendersonville Times-News reported that Susan Snowden’s new novel made Fountainhead Bookstore’s bestseller list for 2012. Although it came out in August, it captured spot No. 2 on the list. Here’s an excerpt from the Jan. 6 article: “In th...

• Hats Off to William Wortman, Jr.!

  Created: Wednesday, 16 January 2013 09:27

    Hats Off! to William Wortman, Jr., of Statesville, who received an Honorable Mention in the 2012 Memoirs Contest sponsored by the Writers' Workshop.  ...

• Hats Off to Megan M. Cutter!

  Created: Tuesday, 15 January 2013 08:04

  Hats Off! to Megan M. Cutter, who announced the release of her new book, Ink in the Wheels: Stories to Make Love Roll, which she co-authored with S. Barton. Ink in the Wheels depicts the journey of an inter-ability married couple as they explore the cour...

• Hats Off to David Rigsbee!

  Created: Monday, 14 January 2013 07:24

    Hats Off! to Raleigh poet David Rigsbee, who has won a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for poetry for 2013. The award is $25,000. Three NC poets were awarded fellowships, out of 40 total. The awards are given every other year for...

• Hats Off to Ruth Moose!

  Created: Friday, 11 January 2013 07:46

    Hats Off! to Ruth Moose, who had a poem in Narrative Arts that was quilted and will hang in the National Institute of Health. She also placed a poem in O'Henry Magazine, Tar River, and a short story in Pine Straw. She has also won a top award in the S...

• Hats Off to Malaika King Albrecht!

  Created: Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:08

    Hats Off! to Malaika King Albrecht, whose poetry collection What the Trapeze Artist Trusts (Press 53) was praised by 2013 Oscar Arnold Young Award Final Judge Robert Lee Brewer. He said, “Albrecht invites the reader to join her on the poetic trapeze...

• Hats Off to Maureen Sherbondy!

  Created: Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:00

    Hats Off! to Maureen Sherbondy of Raleigh, who has been selected by the Poetry Council of North Carolina as the winner of the 2013 Oscar Arnold Young Award for NC’s best book of poetry. Her collection The Year of Dead Fathers (Spring Garden Press) w...

• Hats Off to Linda Heuring!

  Created: Wednesday, 09 January 2013 12:02

    Hats Off! to Linda Heuring, whose short story, "Betty's Branch," was published in the September issue of 42 Magazine. Also, her short story, "One Chair Away," is in the fall issue of Concho River Review, and her story, "Bordering on Sainthood," is due...

• Hats Off to Henry F. Tonn!

  Created: Tuesday, 08 January 2013 08:47

    Hats Off! to Henry F. Tonn, whose essay-memoir “The French, and Being Odd,” has been accepted by the online lit mag Lowestoft Chronicles, to be published March 1....

• Hats Off to Marjorie Hudson!

  Created: Monday, 07 January 2013 08:32

    Our State Magazine features a profile of NCWN member Marjorie Hudson, author of the award-winning story collection Accidental Birds of the Carolinas. Hudson talks about her love of North Carolina rural places and the welcoming writing community in the...

• Hats Off to Tom Hooker!

  Created: Friday, 04 January 2013 09:29

    Hats Off! to Tom Hooker, winner of the 2012 Fountainhead Bookstore Fiction Contest. He will read his winning story, "The Grand Child," on Saturday, January 19 at 5:00 pm at the Fountainhead Bookstore in Hendersonville. A reception will follow....

• Hats Off to Heather Bell Adams!

  Created: Friday, 04 January 2013 02:20

    Hats Off! to Heather Bell Adams, who received an Honorable Mention in the 2012 Fountainhead Bookstore Fiction Contest for her story, "The Yes Pile."...

• Hats Off to Jason Mott!

  Created: Wednesday, 19 December 2012 08:00

    Hats Off! to Jason Mott, whose forthcoming debut novel, The Returned, is being developed as a TV drama series, to be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B, for ABC....

• Hats Off to Marianna Crane!

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2012 08:50

    Hats Off! to Marianna Crane whose essay "Invisible" appears in the Examined Life Journal, Fall 2012 edition....

• Hats Off to Rebecca McClanahan!

  Created: Friday, 14 December 2012 08:03

    Hats Off! to Rebecca McClanahan, whose "Liferower" was selected as one of three model essays (along with essays by David Sedaris and Brian Doyle) for the new edition of Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin's). An excerpt from her...

• Hats Off to Edith Pearlman!

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2012 11:57

    Hats Off! to Edith Pearlman, who has won Hadassah magazine's Harold U. Ribalow Prize, which honors an author who has created "an outstanding work of fiction on a Jewish theme," for Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (Lookout Books). The pan...

• Hats Off to Jan B. Parker!

  Created: Friday, 30 November 2012 07:44

    Hats Off! to Jan B. Parker, who is proud to announce the publication of her essay, "The Calico Nation", and the inclusion of an excerpt from her novel, Trading Moons, in the new Fall issue of South Writ Large....

• Hats Off to Barbara Gabriel!

  Created: Thursday, 29 November 2012 07:44

    Hats Off! to Barbara Gabriel, who was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Scott Owens, Editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, for her poem "Covenant". "Covenant" and other nominated poems can be read here....