White Cross School

. . . to Raleigh dramatist Ian Finley, who has been named the 2012 Piedmont Laureate for the Triangle and adjacent counties: “Working primarily with Burning Coal Theatre Company, he has brought more than 70 different stories from the area’s history to life on stage through collaborations with Oakwood Cemetery, the Mordecai House, Raleigh City [...]

Courtesy of The Review Review, a rundown of literary magazines that pay their contributors. Whatever you do, don’t submit to these journals.  Keep the field clear for the rest of us.

I received this today from the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits: “Next month, a Congressional Super Committee will recommend significant spending cuts and tax changes to reduce the federal deficit. Congress will vote on these proposals in December. Here what’s being proposed: Cuts in funding for nonprofit service providers. Other cuts that will create gaps [...]

From the North Carolina Literary Review: “The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by and interviews with North Carolina writers, and articles and essays about North Carolina writers, literature, and literary history and culture. We have a special offer available to attendees of the North Carolina Writers’ Network 2011 Fall Conference. [...]

The good folks at the DoubleTree Hotel in Asheville, hosts of our 2011 Fall Conference, have just added 20 more rooms to our conference block for both Friday and Saturday nights, November 18 and 19.  They have also added 7 rooms each night to our block at the adjacent Sleep Inn. The deadline is October [...]