Description
The North Carolina Humanities Council invites original entries of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry for the Linda Flowers Literary Award. Submissions should detail examinations of intimate, provocative, and inspiring portraiture of North Carolina, its people and cultures, bringing to light real men and women having to make their way in the face of change, loss, triumph, and disappointments.
While authors do not have to be North Carolinians, entries are expected to draw on particular North Carolina connections and/or memories. Above all, entries should celebrate excellence in the humanities and reflect the experience of people who, like Linda Flowers, not only identify with the state, but also explore the promises, the problems, the experiences, and the meanings of lives that have been shaped by North Carolina and its many cultures.
Guidelines
Entries should be original, unpublished works of up to 2000–2500 words, typed and double-spaced. Five copies of each submission are required with a cover letter (copies will not be returned). The author’s name should not appear on the submission. Only one entry per writer will be accepted. You may wish to enclose a SASE postcard for the Humanities Council to acknowledge receipt of your manuscript and a SASE for notification of the award selection, though this is not required.
Timeline
Send entries for the 2010 Linda Flowers Literary Award, postmarked by August 15, 2010, to the North Carolina Humanities Council, 122 N. Elm Street, Suite 601, Greensboro, NC, 27401.
Recipient
The winner of The Linda Flowers Literary Award will receive a cash prize of $500 and a stipend for a Writer’s residency at Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Her/his original work will be published in the Council’s bi-annual magazine, North Carolina Conversations .
Questions may be directed to Executive Director Shelley Crisp at (366) 334-5383 or
scrisp@nchumanities.org.
(More information HERE.)
The North Carolina Humanities Council invites original entries of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry for the Linda Flowers Literary Award. Submissions should detail examinations of intimate, provocative, and inspiring portraiture of North Carolina, its people and cultures, bringing to light real men and women having to make their way in the face of change, loss, triumph, and disappointments.
While authors do not have to be North Carolinians, entries are expected to draw on particular North Carolina connections and/or memories. Above all, entries should celebrate excellence in the humanities and reflect the experience of people who, like Linda Flowers, not only identify with the state, but also explore the promises, the problems, the experiences, and the meanings of lives that have been shaped by North Carolina and its many cultures.
Guidelines
Entries should be original, unpublished works of up to 2000–2500 words, typed and double-spaced. Five copies of each submission are required with a cover letter (copies will not be returned). The author’s name should not appear on the submission. Only one entry per writer will be accepted. You may wish to enclose a SASE postcard for the Humanities Council to acknowledge receipt of your manuscript and a SASE for notification of the award selection, though this is not required.
Timeline
Send entries for the 2010 Linda Flowers Literary Award, postmarked by August 15, 2010, to the North Carolina Humanities Council, 122 N. Elm Street, Suite 601, Greensboro, NC, 27401.
Recipient
The winner of The Linda Flowers Literary Award will receive a cash prize of $500 and a stipend for a Writer’s residency at Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Her/his original work will be published in the Council’s bi-annual magazine, North Carolina Conversations .
Questions may be directed to Executive Director Shelley Crisp at (366) 334-5383 or
scrisp@nchumanities.org.
(More information HERE.)
