The North Carolina Writers’ Network 2021 Fall Conference will offer all the terrific programming you’ve come to expect, including an exhibit hall packed with some of the best and brightest literary lights in the state.
We’ll be introducing our exhibitors over the next week or so, in reverse alphabetical order. (If you missed Part I, click here.) Here are five more friends who’ll be in the exhibit hall, November 19-21 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Durham/RTP:
NORTH CAROLINA POETRY SOCIETY
www.ncpoetrysociety.org
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With more than 375 members from North Carolina and beyond, the Poetry Society holds regular meetings four times a year in Southern Pines at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. In addition, NCPS sponsors annual contests for adults and students, which offer cash prizes and award certificates; the annual Poet Laureate Award, judged by the state’s poet laureate; the annual Brockman-Campbell Book Award, recognizing the best book published by a North Carolina poet; and the annual Lena M. Shull Book Award, selecting for publication the best full-length unpublished poetry manuscript by a poet living in North Carolina, where the wining manuscript is published by St. Andrews University Press, and the winning poet leads a workshop and gives a reading at Poetry Day Hickory in April. In 2003, the NCPS Board of Trustees approved the establishment of the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series, where three distinguished North Carolina poets are selected annually to mentor student poets in the eastern, central, and western regions of the state.
NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY REVIEW
www.nclr.ecu.edu
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Submissions open for the Doris Betts Fiction Prize (final judge: Monique Truong)! Published since 1992 by East Carolina University and the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, the North Carolina Literary Review facilitates the annual Doris Betts Fiction Prize, which awards $250 and publication in NCLR to a short story under 6,000 words. The deadline is October 31. The theme of the fall, 2021 issue is “Writing Toward Healing,” featuring the winner and finalists of the 2020 James Applewhite Poetry Prize.
NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY MAP
www.library.uncg.edu/dp/nclitmap
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Connecting the lives and creative work of authors to real (and imaginary) geographic locations. The mission of the North Carolina Literary Map is to highlight the literary heritage of the state by connecting the lives and creative work of authors to real (and imaginary) geographic locations. Through the development of a searchable and browseable data-driven online map, users are able to access a database, learning tools, and cultural resources, to deepen their understanding of specific authors as well as the cultural space that shaped these literary works. The NC Literary Map also offers apps for literary walking tours. For exaple, there are two literary walking tours for Greensboro, one for O. Henry and one for Randall Jarrell–inductees of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, both.
NORTH CAROLINA ARTS COUNCIL
www.ncarts.org
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For more than half a century, the NCAC has provided resources for arts programming, education, and leadership across the state. The North Carolina Arts Council delivers resources to arts organizations and artists to support projects and programs of public value that revitalize downtowns, educate and empower North Carolina youths, and fuel a thriving non-profit creative sector that generates over $2 billion annually.
MEMOIR MAGAZINE
www.memoirmag.com
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Memoir magazine’s mission is to be a witness to both factual and emotional truths that resonate with the human heart by supporting writers and artists in sharing their stories—whether personal, social or political– through publication, education, and advocacy. Their goal is to cultivate our collective and individual capacity to recognize truth, while creating greater diversity and empathy, by flooding the world with stories that need to be told. The Annual Memoir Prize awards Memoir and Creative Nonfiction book-length works of exceptional merit in the categories of traditional, self-published, and previously unpublished prose. Deeadline: November 30. Memoir Magazine accepts nonfiction submissions under 3,000 words.
Registration for the North Carolina Writers’ Network 2021 Fall Conference is open.