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North Carolina Humanities Council Awards Top Humanities Honor to Public Humanities Advocate Marsha Warren CHAPEL HILL, NC (July 10, 2009) – The North Carolina Humanities Council board has chosen public humanities advocate Marsha Warren as the recipient of the 2009 John Tyler Caldwell Award, the state’s most prestigious public humanities honor. The award ceremony is scheduled for Friday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill. Dr. Reginald Hildebrand will deliver the annual Caldwell Lecture in the Humanities. Hildebrand is Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-chair of the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project, and a member of the North Carolina Humanities Council board. Warren serves as the literary executor of The Paul Green Foundation, for which she also served as executive director for fifteen years. She sits on the boards of the WeymouthCenter for the Arts & Humanities and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project. Past service includes the North Carolina Writers’ Network, where she was executive director from 1987 to 1996; the National Coalition of Writers Organizations; North Carolina Cultural Alliance; North Carolina Cultural Resources Task Force; Arts Advocates of North Carolina; North Carolina Poetry Society; North Carolina Writers Conference; and the St. Andrews Press Editorial Board. Warren worked with Sam Ragan in the creation of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame and continues that work as a member of the consortium of state partners that ensures North Carolinians will know the excellence of the state’s literary heritage. The John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, the Council’s highest honor, has been presented annually since its inauguration in 1990. Named for its first recipient, the late Dr. John Caldwell, former chancellor of North Carolina State University from 1959-1975 and a founding member of the Humanities Council, the award pays tribute to individuals whose life and careers have strengthened the educational, cultural, and civic life of North Carolinians. ### About the North Carolina Humanities Council
The North Carolina Humanities Council is a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Humanities Council supports through grants and public programs vital conversations that nurture the cultures and heritage of North Carolina. In addition to grants and publications, the Council offers the Road Scholars speakers bureau; the Let’s Talk About It library discussion series; the 2010 traveling exhibition Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, state humanities councils nationwide, and rural communities statewide; and the Teachers Institute, a professional development program for the state’s public school teachers. To learn more about the North Carolina Humanities Council, visit www.nchumanities.org.
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The Triangle is looking for a few good writers
From the City of Raleigh Arts Commission:
Piedmont Laureate Call for Applications
The Piedmont Laureate program will be accepting applications from creative nonfiction writers for 2011! Authors of works including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, travel writings, and new journalism are eligible to apply. Writers must be residents of Alamance, Durham, Orange and/or [...]
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M-V-P! M-V-P!
In his latest Musings post, Scott Owens heaps praise on the invaluable Glenda Beall, and I couldn’t agree more.
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Bravo, Nancy
Congratulations to the Network’s good friend Nancy Olson, owner of Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books & Music, who will receive a 2010 Raleigh Medal of the Arts in a ceremony on October 6. Nancy has done as much for North Carolina’s writers, and North Carolina’s literary culture, as anyone, and this honor is well-deserved.
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Hat's Off!
| ...to Chris Roerden, who won the internationally recognized Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book for Don't Murder Your Mystery It is also one of three finalists for the Macavity Award, given by Mystery Readers International, the largest organization of its kind in the world. |
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