Tag: Ed Southern

Congratulations to Wiley Cash, winner of the 2022 Southern Book Prize for Fiction from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, for his novel When Ghosts Come Home (William Morrow, 2021). The […]

Four North Carolina authors are among the finalists for the 2021 Southern Book Prize, sponsored by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, including one member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. […]

By Ed Southern, Executive Director, North Carolina Writers’ Network North Carolina Bookwatch first aired on what was then UNC-TV in 1997. That seems impossible to me. 1997 was a long […]

Best as we can recollect, the last time we exhibited somewhere was October of 2019, so it’s been almost two years since the North Carolina Writers’ Network has been able […]

What’s in a name? UNC-TV launched in 1955 as only the second non-commercial educational television station located south of Washington, D.C., predating PBS by some fifteen years. For more than […]

Welcome to the final installment of the “Prompt Party!” During The NCWN Writingest State Online Conference, Saturday, November 14, sponsored by Plottr, we randomly assigned a genre to rooms of […]

By Ed Southern, Executive Director, NCWN We’ve found through long experience that early November is the best time to hold our Fall Conference: after most of the big book festivals, […]

Every September, we look forward to spending a Saturday at The Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines, when the North Carolina Poetry Society hosts their annual […]

The board, staff, and members of the North Carolina Writers’ Network join millions around the state, nation, and world to mourn the passing of Randall Kenan. Randall died, apparently of […]

If you’re heading to the North Carolina Rural Assembly this week, in Raleigh, be sure to swing through the exhibit hall and stop by our table. Ed Southern, Executive Director […]