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• Hats Off to Debra Madaris Efird!

  Created: Tuesday, 10 April 2012 07:29

    Hats Off! to Debra Madaris Efird, who was recently recognized as a Finalist in the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize contest and learned that her article, "Celebrating Colleagues," appears in the American School Counselor Association state newsletters this s...

• Hats Off to Kermit Turner!

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2012 07:50

    Hats Off! to Kermit Turner, whose short story, "Pool," received an Honorable Mention for the 2012 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network....

• Hats Off to Art Taylor!

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2012 07:47

    Hats Off! to Art Taylor, whose story, "A Drowning at Snow's Cut," shared the 2012 Derringer Award for Best Long Story with Karen Pullen's "Brea's Tale." Art's story was also featured in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's podcast series here....

• Hats Off to Brenda Kay Ledford!

  Created: Monday, 02 April 2012 12:34

    Hats Off! to Brenda Kay Ledford, who won the Royce Ray Poetry Award for her poem, "Lake Chatuge," which appears in the January, 2012 issue of Aries: A Journal of Art and Literature....

• Hats Off to Linda Heuring!

  Created: Friday, 23 March 2012 07:59

    Hats Off! to Linda Heuring, whose story "One Chair Away" has been accepted by Concho River Review for its Fall 2012 issue....

• Hats Off to Linda Heuring!

  Created: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:57

    Hats Off! to Linda Heuring, who won the Fish Short Story Prize for 2012 for her short story, "Roommates." The story will be featured in the 2012 Fish Anthology, which will be launched at the West Cork Literary Festival in Bantry in July. She will be r...

• Hats Off to Tim Bullard!

  Created: Tuesday, 20 March 2012 08:06

    Hats Off! to author and journalist Tim Bullard of Winston-Salem, who published two articles recently on the 2012 N.C. Governor’s Conference on Tourism and Travel held in Concord. One article was in the Hendersonville Times-News and contained informa...

• Hats Off to Angela Davis-Gardner!

  Created: Monday, 19 March 2012 08:15

    Hats Off! to Angela Davis-Gardner. The paperback edition of her novel, Butterfly's Child, will be published by Dial Press in April, 2012....

• Hats Off to Tony Brown!

  Created: Friday, 16 March 2012 12:30

    Hats Off! to Greenville writer Tony Brown, who had three short stories accepted recently: "Ramon's Favorite Color" by Fifty Word Stories; "Echoes of Escape" by Notes Magazine; and "The Eraser Effect," by Long & Short Review, which is slated for pu...

• Hats Off to Tamra Wilson!

  Created: Friday, 16 March 2012 08:12

    Hats Off! to Tamra Wilson, whose story, "December Bride," is the first-place winner in the 2012 Charlotte Writers Club Children's Story Contest. She previously won the award in 1999 and 2005. Wilson's short-story collection, Dining with Robert Redford...

• Hats Off to Sheila Turnage!

  Created: Thursday, 15 March 2012 08:14

    Hats Off! to Sheila Turnage, whose children's book, Three Times Lucky, was featured in the Book Review section of the March 14 Shelf Awareness Pro e-newsletter.  ...

• Hats Off to Marjorie Hudson!

  Created: Friday, 09 March 2012 07:30

    Hats Off! to Marjorie Hudson, whose short-story collection Accidental Birds of the Carolinas (Press 53, 2011) has been selected for Honorable Mention in the Pen/Hemingway Award. The judges this year were Andre Dubus, III, Sigrid Nunez, and Edith Perlm...

• Hats Off to Michel Stone!

  Created: Wednesday, 07 March 2012 07:30

    Hats Off! to Michel Stone, whose debut novel, The Iguana Tree, sold out its first edition before it was even released. It's received favorable national reviews, and it's been selected as a SIBA "Okra Pick." The release date is March 12, 2012....

• Hats Off to Marjorie Hudson!

  Created: Tuesday, 06 March 2012 07:30

    Hats Off! to Marjorie Hudson, whose short-story collection Accidental Birds of the Carolinas has been nominated for a Southeast Independent Bookseller’s Award by Quail Ridge Books. A new review appears in the North Carolina Literary Review....

• Hats Off to Jules Riley!

  Created: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:24

    Hats Off! to new NCWN member Jules Riley, who recently earned an Honorable Mention in the NC Poetry Society's Caldwell Nixon Jr. Award. His children's poem, "A Rainy Day," will be published in Pinesong. He and others will read on May 19, Awards Day at...

• Hats Off to Jan B. Parker!

  Created: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:21

    Hats Off! to Jan B. Parker, who has recently been accepted as a "giver" in World Book Night, a celebration of reading and books which sees tens of thousands of people gift books within their communities to spread the joy and love of reading on April 2...

• Hats Off to LC Fiore and Richard Krawiec!

  Created: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:53

    Hats Off! to LC Fiore and Richard Krawiec, who finished first and second respectively in the Winston-Salem Writers Ten-Minute Play Contest. Fiore's "The Pit" and Krawiec's "Disabilities" will be given a staged reading and a discussion, moderated by Na...

• Hats Off to Sandra Ann Winters!

  Created: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:34

    Hats Off! to Winston Salem poet Sandra Ann Winters whose poem "Sailing on a Sloop with Strangers, Killaloe to Toomegranny" will be published in the forthcoming issue of Heyday Magazine, Vol.2, Issue 1....

• Hats Off to Tony Brown!

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 13:42

    Hats Off! to Tony Brown, whose short story, "Popped Pop," has been accepted for publication by In Between Altered States, online at www.inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com....

• Hats Off to Sandra Ervin Adams!

  Created: Friday, 24 February 2012 08:09

    Hats Off! to Sandra Ervin Adams, whose poem, "Posing at the Webb Library," appeared in the Testing the Waters Anthology recently launched by Old Books on Front Street in Wilmington, NC. Also, her poem, "Back to Basics," a love poem, appeared at www.qu...