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• Hats Off to Charles "LC" Fiore!

  Created: Wednesday, 28 November 2012 11:00

    Hats Off! to Charles "LC" Fiore, whose short story "Clean Water" appears in the current issue of New South....

• Hats Off to Valerie Nieman!

  Created: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 11:56

    Hats Off! to Valerie Nieman, whose short story "Colonials" was nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. "Colonials" originally appeared in StorySouth....

• Hats Off to Kathryn Striping Byer!

  Created: Monday, 26 November 2012 08:48

  . . . to Kathryn Stripling Byer, whose latest collection, Descent (LSU Press, 9780807147504), is on the Poetry Foundation's Contemporary Poetry best-seller list....

• Hats Off to Karen Paul Holmes!

  Created: Friday, 23 November 2012 08:00

    Hats Off! to Karen Paul Holmes, whose poem, "Visitor," appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Town Creek Poetry.  ...

• Hats Off to Alan Michael Parker!

  Created: Tuesday, 20 November 2012 08:35

    Hats Off! to Alan Michael Parker, who not only was named as the new Douglas C. Houchens Professor at Davidson, but also won the 2012 North Carolina Book Award (Poetry) for his collection, Long Division....

• Hats Off to Rosemary Royston!

  Created: Friday, 16 November 2012 12:09

    Hats Off to Rosemary Royston, whose poem, "Where I'm From," has been accepted by the Southern Poetry Review. She thanks George Ella Lyon for the inspiration; the upcoming issue features Georgia poets....

• Hats Off to Mark Smith-Soto!

  Created: Wednesday, 14 November 2012 08:36

    Hats Off! to Mark Smith-Soto, whose poetry collection Splices won an Honorable Mention in the annual chapbook contest sponsored by Finishing Line Press. Finishing Line will bring the book out in February of next year, but is accepting prepublication o...

• Hats Off to Henry F. Tonn!

  Created: Monday, 05 November 2012 10:55

    Hats Off! to Henry F. Tonn, whose short story, “Turtle,” has been accepted by the university print journal Hawaii Pacific Review for their spring publication....

• Hats Off to Debra Madaris Efird!

  Created: Wednesday, 31 October 2012 06:53

    Hats Off! to Debra Madaris Efird, who has an article entitled "ABC's of Counseling: Tips from Two Decades" in the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) fall state newsletters, which appears in 30 states. As NC does not participate in this newsl...

• Hats Off to Helen B. Aitken!

  Created: Thursday, 25 October 2012 07:22

    Hats Off! to Helen B. Aitken of Swansboro, NC, who won first place in nonfiction for the short story, “Wolf Man Howls into Manhood," in the South Carolina Writers’ Workshop 2012 Petigru Review. Ms. Aitken also is featured for her humorous creative...

• Hats Off to Brenda Kay Ledford!

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:51

    Hats Off! to Brenda Kay Ledford, who received the Paul Green Multimedia Award from North Carolina Society of Historians this year for her blog: http://historicalhayesville.blogspot.com....

• Hats Off to Valerie Nieman!

  Created: Monday, 22 October 2012 11:04

    Hats Off! to Valerie Nieman, whose essay "Abracadabra: Ernest and Miguel and O. Henry and Me" was published in Marco Polo....

• Hats Off to Tamra Wilson!

  Created: Friday, 19 October 2012 11:27

    Hats Off! to Tamra Wilson, whose novel excerpt, "The Cozy Corner," was a finalist in the Machigonne Fiction Competition sponsored by The New Guard in Portland, ME. The story will appear in the upcoming issue. Several of Tamra's short essays have also ...

• Hats Off to Gary Carden!

  Created: Wednesday, 17 October 2012 10:55

    Hats Off! to Jackson County's Gary Carden, who will receive the North Carolina Literature Award for 2012 at the Governor's Mansion in Raleigh on October 30. There will be a celebration following the Awards Ceremony at the North Carolina Museum of Hist...

• Hats Off to Tamra Wilson!

  Created: Monday, 15 October 2012 08:28

    Hats Off! to Tamra Wilson, who had her 2001 North Carolina Literary Review story, "Nora," selected for reprint in Redux....

• Hats Off to Tim Bullard!

  Created: Wednesday, 10 October 2012 08:30

    Hats Off! to Winston-Salem author Tim Bullard, who will appear on UNC-TV's "NC Now" on October 31 at 7:30 pm to discuss his book Haunted Watauga County. The book contains ghost stories and tales of witches in the mountains passed through oral historie...

• Hats Off Suzanne Baldwin Leitner, John Forster, and Lynn Veach Sadler!

  Created: Monday, 08 October 2012 11:43

    Hats Off! to Suzanne Baldwin Leitner, John Forster, and Lynn Veach Sadler, who were honored in the Writers' Workshop of Asheville's 2012 contests. Leitner won Second Place in the "Meet the Authors Contest" for her story, "Court of King's Bench." Forst...

• Hats Off to Joe Epley!

  Created: Friday, 05 October 2012 08:11

    Hats Off! to Joe Epley, whose historical novel A Passel of Hate was awarded a Silver Medal by the Military Writers Society of America. MWSA medal awards are judged by a panel of peers and based on various factors including content, style, visual appea...

• Hats Off to Marjorie Hudson!

  Created: Thursday, 04 October 2012 09:57

    Hats Off! to Marjorie Hudson, who will be a Writer in Residence at Ucross Retreat in Wyoming during the month of October 2012, where she is working on a new novel. The Ucross Fellowship was awarded by PEN-New England and the Hemingway Foundation, as ...

• Hats Off to Laura T. Jensen!

  Created: Thursday, 04 October 2012 08:26

    Hats Off! to Laura T. Jensen, whose story appears in The Best New Writing 2013 (available now!). Published by Hopewell Publications, this anthology is in memory of philosopher Eric Hoffer and features the 2013 winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Prose...