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Hats Off! to Joseph Bathanti, who will receive the 2013 Mary Frances Hobson Prize and participate in the nineteenth annual Mary Frances Hobson Lecture to be held on the Chowan University campus in April 2013. The Mary Frances Hobson Lecture and Prize recognizes distinguished achievement in the field of arts and letters.

Marjorie Hudson’s book Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, published by Press 53, has been selected as the featured book in March for Crowd the Book, a new project to promote books from small presses that deserve wide readership. Crowd the Book is the brainchild of a group of MFA grads from the Naropa Institute in Colorado, and it invites writers and small publishers to participate. Read the author interview, in which Hudson talks about the many jobs she’s taken to support herself and her writing career, including making crepe paper flowers for the Florida float at Nixon’s second inaugural parade.