Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Call for submissions Creative Nonfiction Competition

Great monetary rewards in this contest:

The North Carolina Literary Review will be accepting submissions for the 2020 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize competition. We have $1000 in prize funding for the winner and finalists selected for publication in NCLR by final judge Philip Gerard, author of Cape Fear Rising and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award for U.S. Southeast - Best Regional Fiction.  



Submit essays, memoir, travel writing, and other creative nonfiction up to 7500 words between January 15 and March 1. For eligibility guidelines and submission instructions, go to: http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/submissions/albright-guidelines.html. 
We require no submission fee, but you must subscribe or join the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association to submit. 

See back issues for previous years’ winners and finalists. For subscription information, go to www.nclr.ecu.edu.  



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Saturday, January 11, 2020

Jackson County Open Mic Night, 6:00 p.m. Friday, January 17th

Jackson County's monthly Open Mic night at City Lights Bookstore on Spring Street in Sylva has a new time--6:00 p.m. instead of 7:00 p.m.  The next Open Mic is Friday, January 17th.  Come on out and read with and/or listen to a small but friendly and supportive group of writers, and have a glass of wine and a cookie!