From NC Writers Network:
If you live w/in NC or adjoining states:
NC Writers Featured on WUNC-TV – NC People with Bill Friday on Friday, November 25, 2005 at 9:00 pm and Sunday, November 27, 2005 at 5:30 pm, will feature the six recipients of the 2005 North Carolina Awards, including writers Randall Kenan and Bland Simpson, two of this year’s winners of the North Carolina Award. We hear that the Writers’ Network will be mentioned in the program
Competition:
Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize
Postmark deadline: December 31 (annual)
The Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize honors internationally celebrated North Carolina novelist, Thomas Wolfe. The winner receives $1,000 and possible publication in The Thomas Wolfe Review. The final judge for the 2006 award is the distinguished American novelist, Josephine Humphreys. (submission criteria)