NC Writers’ Network Blog

Great and many thanks to all of you who gave to (and got from) the North Carolina Writers’ Network on Giving (& Getting) Tuesday yesterday. For those of you who […]

The Novel Nest Bookstore has become a cherished local business in Wilson since opening in August 2023, as evidenced by the bookstore’s recent First Place selection for “Best Bookstore” and […]

The Southern Book Prize recently announced its 2024 finalists, and we were glad to see NCWN member Daniel Wallace’s book, This Isn’t Going to End Well, on the list. Wallace […]

The NCWN Fall Conference lets you chart your own course through the weekend, picking the classes and workshops of most interest and relevance to your own work: Poetry? Prose? Publishing? […]

Only two weeks remain to register for the 2023 NCWN Fall Conference. But that doesn’t mean you can wait two weeks. This year’s Fall Conference, November 3 – 5 in Charlotte, is […]

This Friday the 13th could be your lucky day. That is the last day to apply for a scholarship to attend the Network’s 2023 Fall Conference, November 3 – 5 in Charlotte. The […]

The North Carolina Writers’ Network knows what you’re doing. You can’t fool us. You’re waiting until the last minute to submit your 20 pages to the Manuscript Mart at our […]

And you’re not going to believe this but that shortlist includes a North Carolina writer: Marjorie Hudson, for her novel Indigo Field, published by NC-based press Regal House Publishing. The […]

Both Shelf Awareness and Cindy Brookshire, our Regional Rep for Johnston County, report that Story Keeper Books opened last month in downtown Selma, after almost a year as an online […]

Today is Katherine O’Hara’s last day as Communications Director for the Network, but not her last day with the Network. As Katherine leaves to pursue an opportunity in publishing, Celeste, […]