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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 Gail Z. Martin, whose novel Scourge was named the winner of the 2018 Manly Wade Wellman Award from the North Carolina Speculative Fiction Foundation. The novel is Martin’s seventh nomination but her first win. She's had at least one novel named as a finalist in each of the award’s first five years.The award is named for Wellman, author of eighty books that mixed history, biography, folklore, fantasy, mystery, and true murders. He was a 1996 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
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Hats Off! to Heather Bell Adams of Raleigh whose independent scholar paper, "Nature in Ron Rash's Burning Bright," has been accepted by the American Comparative Literature Association. Heather will present the paper at the ACLA annual meeting March 7-10 at Georgetown University. Also, her short story "Three Clicks" was a finalist for the 2018 Ron Rash Award in Fiction and will appear in Broad River Review's upcoming issue.
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Hats Off! to Gina Malone, who took Second Place in the 2018-2019 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Contest with her story "Table Talk." This contest was sponsored by the Charlotte Writers' Club. Gina won $75.00. Wiley Cash was the final judge. "Table Talk spoke to me because the author was able to cram so much of the man's (and woman's) life into 500 words," Cash said. "The writer, much like Alice Munro, steers clear of easy sympathy by relying on relevant details and character traits. This not a story that sets out to surprise; this is a story that sets out to resonate, which it does."