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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. To post your item on the website, please click here.
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Hats Off! to Tina Barr whose new collection of poems, Green Target (Barrow Street Press), was reviewed in the Washington Independent Review of Books. "Barr is inspired, every page, and fearless. For example, in 'Ghost Variations' (on a painting by Joyce Thornburg), we get horrific examples of death and decay but written as if poetry is to fulfill a purpose that cannot be organized. Instead, it must be a force that brings emotion. Perhaps this can come from vivid writing. Perhaps, also, not all dreams are good dreams and not all art is pretty. Whatever the resolve of language, Barr does not shirk from its rescue. There are also moments of illness where the body is betrayed—a mother who must be put in diapers, a “bulb” under the tongue, chronic fatigue syndrome turns into a Blakean poem infectious with imagery. Barr makes words soulful, and her dreams happen using every element of nature touched with human endeavor—every grass, every butterfly is named to showcase the wild theater of her imagination."
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Hats Off! to Joan Leotta whose story "Voice of an Angel" was the cover story for Clubhouse Magazine's December issue. Also, three of her lunes appear in River Poets Journal, and two of her poems on the Ekphrastic Gold challenge were pubished in Ekphrastic Magazine. Finally, her poem "Four Stages of Grief," a poem written for her son, was published in Verse Virtual 's December issue (reprint).
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Hats Off! to Denise Heinze whose historical novel The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew is under contract with Blackstone Publishing. Release date TBD.