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• Hats Off to Lisa Williams Kline

  Created: Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:25

    Hats Off! to Lisa Williams Kline, whose new book, Summer of the Wolves, received the following favorable review from Kirkus: "Blended families that resist blending are a middle-grade–fiction staple, but this funny, gentle and ...

• Has Off to Sandra Ervin Adams!

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:23

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, who had three winning poems in the 2012 Fields of Earth Poetry Contest sponsored by Writers' Ink Guild. "The Thread" won third place in the love category; "Sanctuary in the Park" won an honorable mention in the religio...

• Hats Off to Sandra Ann Winters!

  Created: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:00

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ann Winters, whose poem "Talking to Okra, from the Son's Voice," has won first place in the Carteret Writers 21st annual writing contest. Her poem will be published in SHOAL 2012....

• Hats Off to Debra Madaris Efird!

  Created: Monday, 14 May 2012 11:08

  Hats Off! to Debra Madaris Efird, who has has two travel articles in the Spring 2012 issue of The Carolinas Today magazine. They are entitled "In Celebration of Calabash" and "Charleston: An Unparalleled Treasure."...

• Hats Off to Scott Owens!

  Created: Friday, 11 May 2012 14:39

    Hats Off! to Scott Owens, whose collection of poems, Something Knows the Moment , has been named one of five finalists for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards....

• Hats Off to Philip Gerard!

  Created: Friday, 11 May 2012 14:34

    Hats Off! to Philip Gerard, whose collection of essays, The Patron Saint of Dreams , won the Gold Medal in Creative Nonfiction in the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards. The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of ex...

• Hats Off to Brenda Kay Ledford!

  Created: Monday, 07 May 2012 06:30

    Hats Off! to Brenda Kay Ledford, whose three poems won the 2012 "Fields of the Earth Poetry Contest" sponsored by Writers' Ink Guild. "Fishing," received first place in the nature category, "Progress," got third place in the nature category, and "The ...

• Hats Off to MariJo Moore!

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2012 10:30

    Hats Off! to MariJo Moore, who was featured in the May-June issue of Southern Writers Magazine....

• Hats Off to Gregg Cusick, Ronald Jackson, and Kathryn Lovatt!

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2012 08:30

    Hats Off! to Gregg Cusick, Ronald Jackson, and Kathryn Lovatt, whose stories were selected as Honorable Mentions in the 2012 Doris Betts Fiction Prize contest. To read nice things about each of the Honorable Mentions, click here....

• Hats Off to Ed Southern!

  Created: Wednesday, 02 May 2012 11:18

    Hats Off! to NCWN Executive Director Ed Southern, who was featured in the May-June issue of Southern Writers Magazine....

• Hats Off to Danny Bernstein!

  Created: Friday, 27 April 2012 12:00

    Hats Off! to Danny Bernstein, who received a contract from History Press for her new book, Walking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail: 1,000 through North Carolina. The 2011 Squire Summer Residency did a lot to kickstart the project. The tentative publication...

• Hats Off to Nathan Ross Freeman!

  Created: Friday, 27 April 2012 06:00

    Hats Off! to Nathan Ross Freeman, whose teen group, Authoring Action, will travel to Harvard University this weekend to engage and share their writing process with the Graduate School of Education. There will be a simple round table Q&A forum from...

• Hats Off to Scott Owens!

  Created: Thursday, 26 April 2012 11:47

    Hats Off! to Scott Owens, whose poem, "Rails," from his new book For One Who Knows How to Own Land, will be featured on Garrison Keillor's NPR show The Writers Almanac on April 29. You can listen live or on the website (www.writersalmanac.publicradio....

• Hats Off to Rita Berman!

  Created: Tuesday, 24 April 2012 12:59

    Hats Off! to Rita Berman, whose book Still Hopping, Still Hoping, a biography of Carla Shuford, has been picked up and re-published by Righter Publishing Company and now includes Carla's stories and poems....

• Hats Off to Marilynn Barner Anselmi!

  Created: Friday, 20 April 2012 10:18

    Hats Off! to Marilynn Barner Anselmi, whose play, The Waters of Bimini, was named a semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference....

• Hats Off to L.C. Fiore!

  Created: Thursday, 19 April 2012 11:38

    Hats Off! to L.C. Fiore, whose debut novel, Green Gospel, was short-listed as a finalist in the 2012 First Horizon Book Award....

• Hats Off to Margaret A. Harrell!

  Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:40

    Hats Off! to Margaret A. Harrell. Rain Taxi Review of Books has reviewed her memoir, Keep This Quiet!, concluding that "Three men, embodiments of three different dimensions of the late 1960’s Zeitgeist—wispy dissolution, language-charged intellect...

• Hats Off to Tim Bullard!

  Created: Friday, 13 April 2012 06:47

    Hats Off! to writer Tim Bullard, who had a tourism and travel article published recently in The Thomasville Times with photography. The full-page spread was edited by Kathy Stuart and included information on "daycation" destinations in Forsyth County ...

• Hats Off to Margaret Harrell!

  Created: Thursday, 12 April 2012 07:04

    Hats Off! to Margaret Harrell, whose memoir, Keep This Quiet! My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert , has a two-page spread in the new issue of the quarterly UK literary magazine Beat Scene. Keep This Quiet! is also...

• Hats Off to Shelley Stack!

  Created: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:01

    Hats Off! to Shelley Stack, whose short story, "How We Play It," has been accepted for publication by Euphony and is now live!...