NC Writers’ Network Blog

When the flood waters rose in Hindman, KY, last week, they forced more than three dozen writers to evacuate to higher ground, and cut short the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop they […]

The Squire Summer Writing Workshops kick off this week at Davidson College. Registrants in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction are gathering for the weekend and workshopping with faculty Jack Jung, […]

Congratulations to NCWN member June Guralnick. She is a recipient of the 2022 Raleigh Medal of Arts Award for Leaders in the Arts category. The acknowledgment from the City of […]

Dammit, y’all, I was going to blog something grammar-nerdy this week, something about the social benefits of precise writing and care with language. I want so badly to write about […]

In recognition of Pride Month and Juneteenth, the North Carolina Writers’ Network takes time to commemorate these moments in history and share our latest recommended reading list of books by […]

Henderson County must be living right. First, word came that Songbirds and Stray Dogs, the debut novel by Hendersonville author (and former NCWN Henderson County Rep) Meagan Lucas, is this […]

The Network was founded by writers for the page, not the stage, but dramatists like Paul Green and Samm-Art Williams are as much a part of our literary heritage as […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about change. Change as in a movement from one phase of your life into another; change as in what can happen in an instant; change […]

by Deonna Kelli Sayed   NCWN members swept the honors in the North Carolina Literary Review’s 2022 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize, judged by historian David S. Cecelski. Audrey Jennifer […]

I’m not going to lie: As well as the Internet has served our far-flung Network, I sometimes think – or, more accurately, daydream – about taking us offline entirely. I […]