Tag: pulitzer prize

It’s not every day—heck, it’s barely once a decade—that the North Carolina literary community can celebrate a Pulitzer Prize finalist in our midst. Raleigh poet Dorianne Laux was named a […]

Beloved author, teacher, and North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee Gerald Barrax died Saturday in Raleigh. He was 86. Barrax was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street. […]

>Here on the blog of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, we like to try and keep you up to date on national as well as regional literary news. The 2018 […]

Claudia Emerson—Pulitzer Prize winner, former poet laureate of Virginia, and graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro—died last week in Richmond. […]