Recently appointed Piedmont Laureate Zelda Lockhart, author of the novels Fifth Born, Cold Running Creek and the forthcoming Fifth Born […]
Earlier this decade — on December 29, 2000, in fact — the News and Observer in Raleigh featured me in
The North Carolina Writers’ Network‘s annual Fall Conference remains the one must-attend event for writers — especially aspiring writers —
I’m pleased today to host an interview between two great writers — and to present this interview as the first
Alexandra Sokoloff’s new novel, The Unseen, takes as its starting point a set of real-life experiments done by Dr. Joseph
The August 2009 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine hits newsstands today, and with it — I’m proud to say
Throughout the course of his distinguished career, Alan Cheuse has proven himself adept at a variety of forms: the novel,
Al Maginnes, a fine poet based in Raleigh, N.C., is the focus of this week’s blog How A Poem Happens. I’ve
I’m teaching a Creative Nonfiction workshop at George Mason University this semester, and while Augusten Burroughs isn’t on the syllabus,
More than two months ago, I began asking when some of North Carolina’s bookstores might be hosting a visit by
For whatever fluke of timing, I received nearly a half-dozen magazines in my mailbox (and email inbox) over the last
Back in January, Tara Laskowski was named the Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly — a program honoring authors who’ve