Nancy Werking Poling of Black Mountain is the winner of the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize competition for “Leander’s Lies.” Poling will receive $1000… Read More »Randall Kenan Selects Nancy Werking Poling Winner of the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Miriam Herin of Greensboro, North Carolina, is the winner of the 2018 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition for her story “Lucky.” She will receive a… Read More »Novelist Miriam Herin Wins 2018 Doris Betts Fiction Prize
Christina Clark of Durham is the winner of the 2017 James Applewhite Poetry competition for her poem “Adrift in the Port City”; and another one… Read More »Christina Clark’s “Gritty” Poem Wins the 2017 James Applewhite Poetry Prize
Catherine Carter is the winner of the 2018 James Applewhite Poetry Prize in a record-breaking year of entries. Carter’s prize-winning poem, “Womb-Room,” will be published… Read More »Catherine Carter Receives Top Prize in Record-Breaking 2018 Applewhite Poetry Contest
Dr. Margaret D. Bauer, professor of literature at East Carolina University and editor of the North Carolina Literary Review, was presented with the state’s top… Read More »Top Honor: Margaret Bauer Presented with North Carolina Award
The state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award, will be presented to six distinguished North Carolinians Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Raleigh Marriott City… Read More »Editor to Receive North Carolina Award for Literature
John Thomas York of Greensboro is the winner of the 2017 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize competition for “Seven Years on the Farm.” York will… Read More »Our State Editor Elizabeth Hudson Selects John Thomas York Winner of the 2017 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Trace Ramsey is the winner of this year’s Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for his essay, “Miller Road.” Jim Grimsley presented the $250 award to Ramsey at… Read More »Jim Grimsley Announces Trace Ramsey as Winner of the 2016 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
From the misty Blue Ridge backdrop of Charles Frazier’s “Cold Mountain” to the sandy expanses where Paul Green’s “The Lost Colony” is continually revived in… Read More »Tar Heel: Margaret Bauer Has Stories to Tell, NC Writers to Share