NC Writers’ Network Blog

215 entries were submitted by 80 poets this year for North Carolina Poetry Society’s 2023-2024 Poetry In Plain Sight series.  Of the 48 poems selected, 36 are written by NCWN […]

Communications Director Katherine O’Hara sits down with Ecotone editor Anna Lena Phillips Bell to talk about the NCWN sponsored Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Contest (closing for submissions THIS SUNDAY) and to reflect on the […]

Spoken word artist and poet Dasan Ahanu is announced as the 2023 Piedmont Laureate. Dasan, also known as Chris Massenburg, is a distinguished “public speaker, organizer, curator, educator, poet, spoken […]

Network member Brent Martin was selected as the winner of the 2022 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award by the Western North Carolina Association for his nonfiction book George Masa’s Wild […]

A statement from the North Carolina Writers’ Network We at the Network are happy and relieved to share The Pilot’s report that power has been restored to all Moore County […]

In a press release, the N.C. Literary and Historical Association announced their 2022 North Carolina Book Award Recipients. Presented during the annual meeting of the association, the annual awards recognize […]

A statement from the North Carolina Writers’ Network Like everyone across the country—everyone with a shred of decency, at least—the staff and board of the North Carolina Writers’ Network are […]

Appalachian State University student and bookstagrammer Abigail Portell attended her first NCWN Fall Conference the weekend before last. Here, she reflects on her experience. By Abigail Portell This was my first […]

The news of Philip Gerard’s death was the kind of shock that tempts you to think it can’t possibly be true. His vitality was of a kind that seemed irreducible […]

By: Ed Southern The Writingest State is known for its writerly communities, often centered around colleges: Jackson County and Western Carolina University; the UNCG crowd in Guilford; whole hosts of […]