Hats Off to Gina Malone!
Gina Malone's poem "X" has been published in the Fall 2023 issue of Quartet, an online poetry journal.
Hats Off!
Good news from our members!
The North Carolina Writers’ Network is happy to announce good news from our members. If you have had a piece published, won a prize in a competition, or received an award or honor for your writing, let us know and we’ll post the news here. “Hats Off” announcements are available to members only.
Hats Off to Mary Alice Dixon!
Mary Alice Dixon's essay "Swept by Two Birds and a Rose" is in the August 8, 2023 issue of Braided Way where it is featured as an Editor's Pick. Mary Alice's latest flash fiction, "The Bead Collector's Memories," which grew out of workshop taught by Amber Wheeler Bacon, is in The Petigru Review, Summer 2023. Finally, Mary Alice's short story "The Devil's Footprint on My Chin: The Great Awakening of Iris Blue Luckadoo Bivens" is in Hard to Find: An Anthology of New Southern Gothic, edited by Meredith Jennings (2023, Stephen Austin University Press) and is also available from Texas A&M University Press.
Hats Off to Ediberto Santiago-Alvarez!
Ediberto Santiago-Alvarez was featured by the Hispanic Heritage Literature Organization (MiLibroHispano), participating in an online workshop revolving around fantasy, the paranormal and the mysterious.
Hats Off to Karen Paul Holmes!
Karen Paul Holmes won The Lascaux Prize in Poetry for 2023 with her poem "Capturing the Scent of Rain," which is from her book No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin Books). (There were approximately 2500 entries!)
Hats Off to Laura Mullen!
Laura Mullen has three poems in the latest issue of VOLT, which publishes a range of adventurous writing every spring.
Hats Off to Lenard Moore!
Lenard Moore was interviewed for the Haiku Foundation.
Hats Off to Heather Bell Adams!
Heather Bell Adams's short story, "You Don't Know How I Get," has been published in Reckon Review.
Hats Off to Susan M. Steadman!
Susan M. Steadman's play, "How We Broke the World," will be performed as one of five plays selected for the the Off-Broadway Playhouse Creatures Theatre's “Fight Forward Festival" in 2024.
Hats Off to Mark Smith-Soto!
Mark Smith-Soto's poem “Segue” will be featured in the upcoming issue of Southern Poetry Review as the winner of their 2023 Guy Owen Prize.
Hats Off to Carol L Phillips!
Carol Phillips's "Altered Realities" was published in the August issue of Does It Have Pockets, an online literary magazine with an emphasis on the uncategorizable.