The Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize honors internationally celebrated North Carolina novelist, Thomas Wolfe. The winner receives $1,000 and possible publication in The Thomas Wolfe Review. The final judge for this year's award is Ashley Warlick.
Eligibility and Guidelines
The Thomas Wolfe Fiction competition is open to all writers without regard to geographical region or previous publication.
Entrants should submit two copies of an unpublished fiction manuscript not to exceed 12 double-spaced pages.
Names should not appear on manuscripts, but on separate sheet along with address, phone number, email address and manuscript title.
Entries will not be returned.
An entry fee must accompany manuscript: $15 for members of the NCWN, $25 for non-members. You may pay the member entry fee if you join the Network with your submission.
The winner is announced in April.
Send submissions, indicating name of competition, to:
Professor Tony Abbott PO Box 7096 Davidson College Davidson, NC 28035
Checks should be made payable to the North Carolina Writers’ Network
Last night I returned to North Carolina from a much-needed long weekend, and I’m back at my desk this morning.
I will, however, be out of the office again today for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours, as I hope all of you will be today, too - unless you voted early.
No matter who you [...]
Don’t forget that the 2008 Induction Ceremony for the NC Literary Hall of Fame will be this Sunday, October 19, at 2 p.m., at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
James Applewhite, William S. Powell, and Lee Smith are this year’s inductees. [...]
I’ve found, or been sent, so many good links and other tidbits of interest to writers, I hardly know where to start.
Let’s begin with an interview with Ron Rash, the keynote speaker at the 2008 Fall Conference and author of the new novel Serena, from today’s Shelf Awareness:
Book Brahmins: Ron Rash
Ron Rash is the author [...]
Hat's Off!
...to Gerald Smith. His long essay, “The Pilgrim’s Procrastination,” in the current edition (Spring 2007) of The South Carolina Review. It appears in the section Republic of Letters and can be verified via this link http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/SCR_CurrIss.htm.
