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WINSTON-SALEM—Most outlets now accept online submissions, so submitting our work is easier than ever. But there are still plenty of challenges when it comes to sending our poems or prose to literary journals—and those challenges multiply, exponentially, when we begin sending out full-length manuscripts.
The Network can't prep your submissions for you, or send it out on your behalf, but we can offer the next best thing: the sage wisdom of an expert, industry professional who will open up to talk about the submission process for literary journals and how that process might differ for small presses and offfer invaluable advice to help our submissions stand out from the pack.
On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, at 7:00 pm EST, author and editor Kristina Marie Darling will lead the online class "Lit Mag & Small Press Publishing."
Registration is closed.
In this 90-minute, open-format event, Kristina Marie Darling will talk about publishing in literary magazines and publishing with a small press—for writers of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. Following a short talk, Kristina will paricipate in a moderated Q&A driven mostly by questions from registrants. Come armed with questions: participation is strongly encouraged!
The cost for the class is $35 for NCWN members, $45 for non-members. Space is limited.
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of 36 books, which include Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle, which is forthcoming from the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics at the University of Akron Press; Stylistic Innovation, Conscious Experience, and the Self in Modernist Women’s Poetry, forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group; Daylight Has Already Come: Selected Poems 2014 - 2020, which will be published by Black Lawrence Press; Silence in Contemporary Poetry, which will be published in hardcover by Clemson University Press in the United States and Liverpool University Press in the United Kingdom; Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Poetry, forthcoming from Black Ocean; Angel of the North, which is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry; and X Marks the Dress: A Registry (co-written with Carol Guess), which will be launched by Persea Books in the United States. Penguin Random House Canada will also publish a Canadian edition.
An expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and the recipient of grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; a Fundación Valparaíso fellowship to live and work in Spain; a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, funded by the Heinz Foundation; an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; seven residencies at the American Academy in Rome; two grants from the Whiting Foundation; a Faber Residency in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, which she received on two separate occasions; an artist-in-residence position with the Andorran Ministry of Culture; an artist-in-residence position at the Florence School of Fine Arts; a four-month appointment at Scuola Internazionale de Grafica in Venice; and the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, which she received on three separate occasions; among many other awards and honors.
Dr. Darling serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly. Beginning in the fall of 2022, she will also serve as Publisher-in-Residence at the American University of Rome.
"The Network offered online classes long before the COVID-19 pandemic, and we'll continue to do so moving forward," said NCWN communications director Charles Fiore. "While nothing can replace the energy of an in-person event, online classes can still be inspirational. More importantly, they offer a way to connect with writers across the state and beyond while staying safe."
The online class "Lit Mag & Small Press Publishing" is available to anyone with an internet connection, or who even owns just a telephone. Instructions for accessing the online class on Tuesday, February 15, will be sent to registrants no less than 24 hours prior to the start of class. The class will be archived and made available to registrants for repeated viewings.
The nonprofit North Carolina Writers’ Network is the state’s oldest and largest literary arts services organization devoted to writers at all stages of development. For additional information, visit www.ncwriters.org.
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GREENVILLE—
Heather Bell Adams is the winner of the 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Prize for her story, “The Virgin of Guadalupe’s Moon.” Adams will receive a prize of $250 from the North Carolina Writers' Network, and her story will be published in the North Carolina Literary Review’s 2022 issue.
Heather Bell Adams is the author of the novels Maranatha Road (West Virginia University Press, 2017) and The Good Luck Stone (Haywire Books. 2020). Her writing has won the Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, the Carrie McCray Literary Award, and the James Still Fiction Prize and has appeared in, among other literary magazines, Still, The Thomas Wolfe Review, Atticus Review, Broad River Review, and Pembroke Magazine. A lifelong North Carolinian, she works as a lawyer in Raleigh and will serve as the 2022 Piedmont Laureate.
There were 126 stories submitted to the 2021 contest, and this year’s final judge was Monique Truong, author of the novels The Book of Salt, The Sweetest Fruits, and, set in North Carolina, Bitter in the Mouth. Truong explained her selection for the 2021 prize: “In prose as elegant and poised as the young Jackie Bouvier herself, ‘The Virgin of Guadalupe’s Moon’ imagines a moonlit night during her truncated honeymoon with Jack Kennedy in Acapulco, Mexico. We the reader know the inevitable, but this night is before the inevitable. The writer here has astutely situated them—and us—within the fertile territory of the possible. Like Acapulco itself, everything between Jackie and Jack is newly constructed, shining with a fresh gloss of the modern, and yet in the surrounding landscape there’s something alive and insatiable as their own desires, but not necessarily for each other. The writing here shimmers and glows, Jackie and Jack do too.”
Truong also gave honorable mention to “Invasive Pests” by Settle Monroe, praising “its intriguing, poignant juxtaposition of two narratives of destruction. From the insect world, there's a fast-moving, systematic one, and from the all-too human realm one that's incremental and grinding.” Monroe’s story will be published in 2022 as well. The author is a graduate student in the M.A. program in English at North Carolina State University.
The other finalists were “Playing Chess with Bulls” by Weaverville resident Sarah P. Blanchard, “Under My Skin” by UNC Chapel Hill Professor of Latin American Literature Oswaldo Estrada, and “Swept Away” by Greensboro resident Caroline McCoy.
The annual Doris Betts Fiction Prize honors the late novelist and short story writer Doris Betts, and is sponsored by the nonprofit North Carolina Writers’ Network, the state’s oldest and largest literary arts services organization devoted to writers at all stages of development. For additional information, visit www.ncwriters.org.
Published since 1992 by East Carolina University and the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, the North Carolina Literary Review has won numerous awards and citations. Go to http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/subscriptions for subscription information.
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CULOWHEE—Any writer who finds themselves writing about the past quickly discovers that memory, especially public memory, is not singular or stable—far from it. Instead, the history we remember as a community—what we remember, how we frame it, what we forget—is informal and diverse, even ever-changing. But it does define us.
Our concern as writers then is recognizing the public spaces that define our memories, and therefore our identities, when we commit these histories to the page.
On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at 7:00 pm EST, Dr. Travis A. Rountree—an assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University—will lead the online class "Writing through Memory: Exploring Places and Spaces of Public Memory" (Nonfiction).
Registration is closed.
In this course, we’ll discuss definitions of public memory and how we engage with memory spaces and places daily. Specifically, we’ll talk about how we remember, map, and write through public physical places and online spaces. Working our way through these spaces and places, we’ll learn how much of an impact they and the memories that they carry impact us every day.
The cost for the class is $35 for NCWN members, $45 for non-members. Space is limited.
Dr. Travis A. Rountree is an assistant professor in the English Department at Western Carolina University. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Louisville, his MA in English from Appalachian State University with a certificate in Appalachian Studies, and his BA in English from James Madison University with a minor in American Studies. He is from Richmond, Virginia, but lived in Boone for nine years. He enjoys running, weight lifting, and gardening. He is an avid fan of old time, bluegrass, and country music and lives in Sylva with his two cats.
"The Network offered online classes long before the COVID-19 pandemic, and we'll continue to do so moving forward," said NCWN communications director Charles Fiore. "While nothing can replace the energy of an in-person event, online classes can still be inspirational. More importantly, they offer a way to connect with writers across the state and beyond while staying safe."
The online class "Writing through Memory: Exploring Places and Spaces of Public Memory" (Nonfiction) is available to anyone with an internet connection, or who even owns just a telephone. Instructions for accessing the online class on Wednesday, January 12, will be sent to registrants no less than 24 hours prior to the start of class. The class will be archived and made available to registrants for repeated viewings.
The nonprofit North Carolina Writers’ Network is the state’s oldest and largest literary arts services organization devoted to writers at all stages of development. For additional information, visit www.ncwriters.org.