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 the 2008 award is well-known editor Shannon Ravenel, who has had a long career in publishing, first as an editor at Houghton Mifflin, later as Series Editor of The Best American Short Stories for 13 years, and finally as a co-founder with Louis Rubin of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill where she established the annual anthology New Stories from the South. Currently, she directs her own Algonquin Imprint, Shannon Ravenel Books.
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Entrants should submit two copies of an unpublished fiction manuscript not to exceed 12 double-spaced pages.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
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Hat's Off!
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