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Postmark deadline: January 30 (annual)
Submissions accepted: December 1 – January 30

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.

 

Eligibility and Guidelines

  • The competition is open to all writers regardless of geographical location or prior publication.
  • Submit two copies of an unpublished fiction manuscript not to exceed 12 double-spaced pages (1" margins, 12-pt. font).
  • Author's name should not appear on manuscripts. Instead, include a separate cover sheet with name, address, phone number, e-mail address, word count, and manuscript title.
  • An entry fee must accompany the manuscript: $15 for NCWN members, $25 for nonmembers.
  • You may pay the member entry fee if you join the NCWN with your submission. Checks should be made payable to the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
  • Entries will not be returned.
  • The winner is announced each April.
  • Send submission to:

Professor Tony Abbott
PO Box 7096
Davidson College
Davidson, NC 28035

 

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Hats Off! to Maureen A. Sherbondy of Raleigh, who was awarded the Robert Watson Poetry Award by Spring Garden Press. A. Van Jordan selected her manuscript The Year of the Dead Fathers as the winner of this chapbook contest. Sherbondy is the first North Carolina poet to win this award.

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