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
With the 25th issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review just released, results are in for NCLR’s 2016 James Applewhite Poetry Prize competition: Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin… Read More »Russell Colver Wins James Applewhite Poetry Prize With Poem Inspired by Noah and the Flood
The North Carolina Literary Review received a record number of submissions for the 2016 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’… Read More »Record Number of Stories Submitted to the Doris Betts Fiction Prize Competition: Winners Announced
New faculty member at Appalachian State University Zackary Vernon is the winner of the premiere Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for his essay entitled “Boone… Read More »Zackary Vernon Receives First Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize
Debra Kaufman is the winner of the 2015 James Applewhite Poetry competition for her poem “To Be Emma Bovary.” Kaufman will receive a prize of… Read More »Debra Kaufman Wins James Applewhite Poetry Prize With Poem Inspired by Emma Bovary
Michael Parker, Vacc Distinguished Professor in the MFA Writing Writing Program at UNC Greensboro, was the honoree at the 2015 North Carolina Writers Conference, which… Read More »Michael Parker Honored at the 2015 North Carolina Writers Conference