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  • Hats off to Anna Jean Mayhew

    Anna Jean Mayhew received  a two-book deal with Kensington Books for her novel,  The Dry Grass of August, and a second novel-in-progress....
  • Hats Off to Maureen Sherbondy

    Maureen Sherbondy won first place in the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award for poetry (South Carolina Writers' Workshop)....
  • Hats Off to Maureen Sherbondy

    Maureen Sherbondy won first place in the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award for poetry (South Carolina Writers' Workshop)....
  • Hats Off to BG Carter

    One of BG Carter's short stories was published in Bobbin & Shuttle, theannual publication of the Textile Heritage Center in Cooleemee, N. C. ...
  • Hats Off to BG Carter

    One of BG Carter's short stories was published in Bobbin & Shuttle, theannual publication of the Textile Heritage Center in Cooleemee, N. C. ...
  • Hats Off to Tony Brown

    Tony Brown of Greenville was named "Honorable Mention" for the Write to Wincontest in the September/October edition of Writers Journal for his short story "The New Wall on Rue de la Maison. "It was his first submission to a writing contest. Brown is a f...
  • Hats Off to Tony Brown

    Tony Brown of Greenville was named "Honorable Mention" for the Write to Wincontest in the September/October edition of Writers Journal for his short story "The New Wall on Rue de la Maison. "It was his first submission to a writing contest. Brown is a f...
  • Hats Off to Dody WIlliams

    Dody Williams short story, "Betrothed", won the Scratch Contest Summer 2009 quarterly writing contest.  Contest judge Patti Callahan Henry said of "Betrothed", "This story has what all great stories should have: an intriguing opening that makes the reade...
  • Hats Off to Dody WIlliams

    Dody Williams short story, "Betrothed", won the Scratch Contest Summer 2009 quarterly writing contest.  Contest judge Patti Callahan Henry said of "Betrothed", "This story has what all great stories should have: an intriguing opening that makes the reade...
  • Hats Off to Karen Holmes

    Karen Paul Holmes  has had many recent successes with her poetry. "WillowManor" was accepted for the anthology When Last on the Mountain: Essays, Stories andPoems from Writers Over 50 (Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, MN),  "The Economy of JapaneseFlower Arrang...
  • Hats Off to Karen Holmes

    Karen Paul Holmes  has had many recent successes with her poetry. "WillowManor" was accepted for the anthology When Last on the Mountain: Essays, Stories andPoems from Writers Over 50 (Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, MN),  "The Economy of JapaneseFlower Arrang...
  • Hats Off to David Rigsbee

    David Rigsbee is the winner of the 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition with his manuscript The Pilot House. According to Black Lawrence Press, "The poems in this chapbook made us ache; that's how good they are." David will receive a cash award and publ...
  • Hats Off to David Rigsbee

    David Rigsbee is the winner of the 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition with his manuscript The Pilot House. According to Black Lawrence Press, "The poems in this chapbook made us ache; that's how good they are." David will receive a cash award and publ...
  • Hats Off to Kim Church

    Kim Church's short story "Bullet" has been translated into Farsi and is the title story in the new Iranian anthology, Golouleh.  The story first appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly and has been anthologized in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton) andThe G...
  • Hats Off to Kim Church

    Kim Church's short story "Bullet" has been translated into Farsi and is the title story in the new Iranian anthology, Golouleh.  The story first appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly and has been anthologized in Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton) andThe G...
  • Hats Off

    .... to Charlotte author , Joseph Cavano , has recently been notified that his short story, "Phineas Rising" has been awarded finalist status in the prestigious Tom Howard Short Story Contest....
  • Hats Off

    .... to Charlotte author , Joseph Cavano , has recently been notified that his short story, "Phineas Rising" has been awarded finalist status in the prestigious Tom Howard Short Story Contest....
  • Hats Off

    ....to David Rigsbee for winning the 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition with his manuscript, The Pilot House. According to Black Lawrence Press, "the poems in this chapbook made us ache;  that’s how good they are." David will receive a cash award ...
  • Hats Off

    ....to David Rigsbee for winning the 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition with his manuscript, The Pilot House. According to Black Lawrence Press, "the poems in this chapbook made us ache;  that’s how good they are." David will receive a cash award ...
  • Hats Off

    .... to Ann Chandonnet. Poet and editor Ann Chandonnet of Vale, NC, has signed a contract with Winoca Press for a non-fiction history book about the Civil War. The workingtitle for the manuscript is Write Quick: War and a Woman's Life in Letters, 1836-186...