North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee Randall Kenan’s final short story collection, If I Had Two Wings, has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. Randall died unexpectedly last month. Returning to the fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina in which two of his previous works also take place, the short […]
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Final Issue of Tin House Set for June
Monday, January 7, 2019
The literary world will lose one of its prized citizens in June when Tin House, one of America’s premier literary journals, stops the presses after two decades serving readers and writers. Editors Win McCormack and Rob Spillman sent an e-mail to subscribers in mid-December, announcing the decision. “Twenty years feels like the right time to […]
Come See Us at Bookmarks!
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
The North Carolina Writers’ Network will have an exhibitor’s booth at the 2018 Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors this Saturday, September 8, in downtown Winston-Salem. Come by and say hello! We’ll be sponsoring two sessions of Slush Pile Live!, an interactive event for aspiring writers to get immediate feedback on their work from editors […]