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Limón wrote, “Hungry, clear-eyed, tough, and generous, The Necessity of Wildfire is a book that creates a humming musicality out of the early sorrows and rough stones of life. Cinematic and sound-driven, these are brilliant and honest personal poems that open up to the larger universal truths. These poems are gorgeous and complex.” Though originally from the South, Scarano lives in Anacortes, Washington, and was selected as a 2018 participant in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists & Writers Program. Scarano’s imagination is galvanized by the Pacific Northwest—floods and wildfires, the Salish Sea and the North Cascades, and the humans and animals whose lives intersect and collide there. In these poems, the speaker chases a singular, thorny question: how does where and who we came from shape who and how we love? In this collection, the speaker reckons with a legacy of violence in her family, the death of her estranged father, the unraveling of relationships, the complexity of sexuality, and her decision not to have children. Scarano holds a PhD in English (creative writing) from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She’s the author of several chapbooks, including The Hatchet and the Hammer. Her debut collection of poems was Do Not Bring Him Water (2017). Her work has appeared in Granta, Entropy, Carve, and Colorado Review. The Wren Poetry Prize, formerly known as Carolina Wren Press Poetry Prize, is awarded to a writer’s first or second full-length poetry collection. Blair will publish the winning collection in Spring 2022. https://blairpub.com/news-events daily 0.75 2024-08-19 https://blairpub.com/careers daily 0.75 2023-05-17 https://blairpub.com/maylee-chai daily 0.75 2022-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847736004-JNS9D00D9KH3FTOSIGO3/image-asset.jpeg May-lee Chai - May-lee Chai We’re thrilled to announce the latest winner of our Bakwin Award for Writing by a Female-Identifying Writer: May-lee Chai, for her story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants! May-lee is the author of eight previous books and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, among other honors. Her stories, essays, and journalism have appeared in publications such as The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, Entropy, and elsewhere. May-lee was born in California but has lived in fourteen states in the U.S. and four countries. She received her M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. Useful Phrases for Immigrants was selected from 234 entries. The finalists included Jubilee by Jenn Givhan and Kissing the Indigo Sky by Angela Threatt. The winner was judged by author Tayari Jones. Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where she spent most of her childhood, with the exception of the one year she and her family spent in Nigeria. Although she has not lived in her hometown for more than a decade, much of her writing centers on the urban South. “Although I now live in the northeast,” she explains, “my imagination lives in Atlanta.” Her novels include Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, and Silver Sparrow, all of which have received several awards and accolades, including the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction and the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices. Her newest novel, An American Marriage, will be published in 2018. Congratulations to May-lee and all of our Bakwin Award finalists! Carolina Wren Press will publish May-lee’s collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants in fall 2018. https://blairpub.com/maegan-poland daily 0.75 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1655131238906-AYYU4MI9E57DSAQMCZ8G/Maegan+Poland+Author+Photo.jpg Maegan Poland - Maegan Poland We’re thrilled to announce the latest winner of the Bakwin Award: What Makes You Think You’re Awake? by Maegan Poland! Blair’s final contest judge and award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado described the work as “a wonderful debut; a collection of frank, funny, and heartbreaking stories that delve into the mire of human loneliness.” Machado is the author of the story collection Her Body and Other Parties, a National Book Award finalist, and the memoir In the Dream House. Poland’s stories usher in a world where mortal fear, the threat of violation, and the body’s looming betrayal drive us to look beyond surface appearances. The stories range from a mosquito-borne illness invading a small southern town, forcing its inhabitants to negotiate their muted, desperate lusts against the threats of virus-induced paralysis, to a pair of newlyweds on their honeymoon at a luxury resort, whose automated services quickly turn menacing. Her stories move between richly imagined landscapes, bringing to life the deep loneliness at the heart of the modern condition, and the ephemerality of the bridges we build against the dark. Poland teaches creative writing and composition at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where her work was supported by a Black Mountain Institute fellowship. She also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi, as well as a BFA in writing for screen and television from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee Scholar. The Bakwin Award contest is open to female-identifying writers. Previous winners have included Chantel Acevedo, author of the coming-of-age novel A Falling Star, and writer May-lee Chai for her American Book Award–winning story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants. https://blairpub.com/heather-frese daily 0.75 2022-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847736004-JNS9D00D9KH3FTOSIGO3/image-asset.jpeg Heather Frese - Heather Frese We’re thrilled to announce the latest winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize: The Baddest Girl on the Planet, by Heather Frese! This novel is a heartbreaking, haunting, even funny portrait of the life of Evie Austin, baddest girl on the planet, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina. The final effect is one of nostalgia in the face of life’s constant changes—an effect made all the more poignant by the ebb and flow of the Hatteras Island waves. What does it mean to come of age in the Outer Banks, to love a place as deeply as you long for something more? Who are we when we don’t recognize ourselves? Each chapter is another one of Evie’s vividly rendered memories, and they appear one after another without regard for chronology, in the way real memories do. This protagonist is not for the faint of heart; Evie Austin, her hair stiff with salt, looks her reader squarely in the face. Heather Frese’s fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Review, Front Porch, the Barely South Review, Switchback, and elsewhere, earning notable mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Essays. She received her master’s degree from Ohio University and her M.F.A. from West Virginia University. The purpose of the Lee Smith Novel Prize is to recognize and publish authors living in, writing about, or originally from the U.S. South. Coastal North Carolina is Heather Frese’s longtime love and source of inspiration, her writing deeply influenced by the wild magic and history of the Outer Banks. 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LeMalle's manuscript was selected by contest judge Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) from over five hundred novel submissions. Of the winning manuscript, contest judge Deesha Philyaw says, “Behind the Waterline revisits two traumatic chapters in U.S. history, decades apart, but inextricably linked to the fate of one unforgettable young narrator. Catastrophes—natural, political, and familial—collide in this deeply moving, inventive, and surprising page-turner.” When Hurricane Katrina approaches New Orleans, teenaged Eric and his grandmother and many of their neighbors decide to ride out the storm. Kionna Walker LeMalle’s masterful debut novel brings her readers, like the rising water, onto Eric’s street in the Third Ward, where stranded dogs bark for a time, where neighbors are floating on doors, and where Eric and his grandmother must take refuge in his second floor bedroom. After days of heat, dwindling supplies, and relentless rising water, neighbors begin to disappear and Eric’s grandmother, already known as an eccentric, begins to falter. It is then that Eric—in a dream, a hallucination, or something else—discovers a room beyond his closet wall, a place he has never seen. What he discovers inside will send him on a path to survival, bitter progress, and ultimately, to discovery of the history of his people—those he sorely misses and those he never even knew. Kionna Walker LeMalle is an executive writer for the University of Houston-Downtown by day and a fiction and poetry writer by night. She has taught writers at every level, from elementary through graduate school, and remains on the faculty rosters for Houston’s Writers in the Schools and Houston Christian University. Committed to authentic writing community, LeMalle is the founder and lead administrator of the Writer.Teacher.Friend. critique group. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Education from Xavier University of Louisiana, a Master of Education degree from the University of New Orleans, and her MFA from Houston Christian University. She was born and raised in New Orleans, LA, and lives in Houston, TX. Both cities fuel her imagination and her belief in the restorative power of community, the church, and the second line. She and her husband Averri have four children and numerous pets who continue to support her obsession with writing. Blair will publish the winning novel in Fall 2024. https://blairpub.com/tara-weinstein daily 0.75 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/347f70c1-4801-48a1-b666-1c074117c4b5/Weinstein%2C+Tara_+headshot.jpeg Tara Weinstein - Tara Weinstein, Bakwin Award Winner 2024 Blair is proud to announce the winner of the Bakwin Award for Full-Length Prose is The Only Way Out Is Through by Tara Weinstein. 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He's currently the senior writer for ABC's 20/20, and for his work at ABC News has received the Emmy, Peabody, and two Edward R. Murrow Awards. He also wrote the screenplay for the festival-favorite indie film Finding North. In 2007, he was selected as one of the "Out 100"—Out Magazine's most influential gays and lesbians in the country. A native Texan, he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He lives in Manhattan and Asbury Park, NJ, where he is the host of the wildly popular BookFlix, an ongoing series of monthly interviews with authors and filmmakers. Past guests have included Junot Diaz, Robert Olen Butler, Hannah Tinti, and many others. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/indecent-assembly monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722685872-89GHGB98WOZLWK0SR6OV/IndecentAssenbly_LOW%2BRES%2Bimage.jpg Books - Indecent Assembly - Cover of Indecent Assembly by Gene R. Nichol. 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Her award-winning short prose has been published widely, including in Glimmer Train, Missouri Review, Seventeen, Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, Dallas Morning News, Christian Science Monitor, and San Francisco Chronicle. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/well-shut-my-mouth monthly 0.5 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722666048-FSW5R02BI2Z98QOP8O3V/9780895875471_FC.jpg Books - Well, Shut My Mouth! - A textured orange background with the title in whimsical black text. The 'O' in 'Mouth' is replaced with a drawing of a sweet potato. Beneath the text are three images of food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/e4e3e699-bb4c-442a-8ae6-a5082f707bf9/500x500_Tyson.png Books - Well, Shut My Mouth! Stephanie L. Tyson and her partner and co-owner, Vivian Joiner, opened Sweet Potatoes in the Downtown Arts District of Winston-Salem in 2004. Both live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/voices-from-the-trail-of-tears monthly 0.5 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722664509-5WUOLXASF7QJQD9QHN3S/9780895872715_FC.jpg Books - Voices From the Trail of Tears - A dark purple background with a painting of brown figures dressed in bright colors standing in a line. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/we-lived-in-a-little-cabin-in-the-yard monthly 0.5 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722663056-RWX0KLOX9ITD7GL0HRDC/9780895871183_FC.jpg Books - We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard - A black-and-white image of a black woman and several black children standing near a shed. 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After earning a master’s degree from the University of Virginia and serving nine years in the United States Army, de Hart moved with his wife to Louisburg, NC, where he taught history and served as director of public affairs for Louisburg College. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/touring-western-north-carolina monthly 0.5 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1698682334303-P7P3QC04LLIP24360MGD/Touring+WNC+Backroads+4th+ed_cover+RGB.jpg Books - Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads - A photograph of road along a mountain covered in bright fall foliage, with the title on the upper-left side on a tan background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1714402519123-2UU8IRII895CLYX23Y1U/Touring+WNC+art+5.jpg Books - Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1714402494752-26NZCZ764HCR6TL8LXSN/Touring+WNC+art+3.jpg Books - Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1714402493965-PIZHFSEZCE07892J1178/Touring+WNC+art+4.jpg Books - Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1714402494492-4W806HUEGI4432ENMFJB/Touring+WNC_art1.jpg Books - Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1714402494759-EK5CK4IF1EGD3YJK7A2J/Touring+WNC+art+2.jpg Books - Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/5134b1b3-b1b7-4480-bd28-fe1f3ec873a1/500x500_Sakowski.png Books - Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads Carolyn Sakowski is a native of Morganton, North Carolina. She holds a B.A. in history from Queens University of Charlotte and an M.A. in history from Appalachian State University. She lives in Winston- Salem, North Carolina, where she is the president of John F. Blair, Publisher. Her previous books include Touring the East Tennessee Backroads and Travel North Carolina. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/unearthing-seeds-of-fire monthly 0.5 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722656479-FH37G5NTW85X43LL8LP0/9780895870193_FC.jpg Books - Unearthing Seeds of Fire - A dark green background with a beige border. 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Taylor chaired the photography program at Carteret Community College for 11 years before retiring May 2023. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/voices-of-cherokee-women monthly 0.5 2025-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722650052-ELEMFMXAK6AAWANY9YYR/9780895875990_FC.jpg Books - Voices of Cherokee Women - An olive green background with four figures facing away with cloaks on their shoulders walking towards the sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/0a4a623a-45e7-4bb0-9682-dab281d1557c/500x500_Johnston.png Books - Voices of Cherokee Women Carolyn Ross Johnston has a B.A. from Samford University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California–Berkeley. Her previous publications Cherokee Women in Crisis: Removal, The Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907; Sexual Power: Feminism and the Family in America; Jack London: An American Radical; and My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II. A recipient of Woodrow Wilson and Danforth fellowships, Johnston teaches at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she is professor of history and American studies and the Elie Wiesel Professor of Humane Letters. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/this-african-american-life monthly 0.5 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722647390-FP6ROI8WSFQHWSQ8Y2M1/Price_ThisAfrican-AmericanLife_Cover-01.jpg Books - This African-American Life - Cover of This African-American Life by Hugh B. Price. 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In 1988, he was appointed vice-president of the Rockefeller Foundation, where he was instrumental in launching innovative youth initiatives. From 1994 to 2003, he served as president of the National Urban League. He then served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and on the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University. He lives in New Rochelle, NY. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/tales-of-the-south-carolina-low-country monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722642971-7OGBAXDD2IL4NPWZD240/9780895870278_FC.jpg Books - Tales of the South Carolina Low Country - A photograph of a path lined by spanish moss. The title is in white letters centered on the lower half of the page. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/voices-from-the-outer-banks monthly 0.5 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722641601-26ZGJV5HP8K84YGZU46K/9780895876447_FC.jpg Books - Voices from the Outer Banks - A photograph of three men hauling a fishing net onto the shore. The sky is in tones of light teal and green, and the title is in white block letters on the left side of the page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/a49817b6-1b74-455b-91ed-1079993bb027/500x500_Kirk.png Books - Voices from the Outer Banks Stephen Kirk was an editor at John F. Blair, Publisher, for 27 years. He has a B.A. from St. Lawrence University and an M.F.A. from UNC-Greensboro. A story he wrote while working on his M.F.A. appeared in the Greensboro Review and was subsequently selected by John Updike for reprinting in the Best American Short Stories series. Since then, he has written First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina and Scribblers: Stalking the Authors of Appalachia. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/touring-the-shenandoah-valley-backroads monthly 0.5 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722640065-B9KNFMBHQYWWXC8O3CLO/9780895873866_FC.jpg Books - Touring the Shenandoah Valley Backroads - The top half of the cover is a gravel road lined with fall trees. Below that is a red band with the authors name. Beneath that are three images: a mountainscape, a red shed, and sunflowers. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/voices-from-st-simons monthly 0.5 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722638445-CXC4K1JEIAH0ZS4NVJ93/9780895873576_FC.jpg Books - Voices From St. Simons - A brown background with a painting on the lower half of the page. The painting is of four black figures standing near the waterline at sunset. The title is above the painting in pink letters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/57eaf173-9e24-48d9-9094-97af97671817/500x500_Doster.png Books - Voices From St. Simons Stephen Doster was born in 1959 in Kingston-Upon-Thames, England, and moved with his parents and four siblings to St. Simons Island, Georgia, in the early 1960s. His ties to the island date to the early 1900s, when his father’s family vacationed there before the construction of a mainland causeway. His grandparents permanently moved to St. Simons in the 1940s, building on the grounds where a Spanish mission once stood. Growing up on the island, Doster remembers the place as a “Mayberry with tides,” where he and neighborhood kids played baseball on the beach, sneaked into a resort hotel pool after football practices, and explored the island’s woods and tidal creeks. His early recollections include seeing navy hurricane hunters fly over the Atlantic in search of storms before the days of satellites, viewing open Indian graves during an archaeological dig, evacuating the island at Hurricane Dora’s approach, and returning to the destruction left in its wake. After graduating from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1983, Doster headed to Nashville, Tennessee where he has lived and worked since. Though he has been a resident of Nashville for over 20 years, St. Simons has always been close to his heart. In 2002, John F. Blair published his debut novel, Lord Baltimore, about a young man’s journey on the Georgia coast between Savannah and St. Simons. Voices from St. Simons is essentially Doster’s effort to preserve the legacy of the area. For decades, he heard “local residents utter the famous sentiment that someone should have recorded so-and-so’s recollections before she died.” Reading the obituary of a former elementary school teacher inspired him to set up face-to-face and telephone interviews that began his oral archaeological dig. Doster works at Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville with his wife, Anne. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/woody-durham monthly 0.5 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722636196-IJMGAYORV2K7BBGIKGUY/9780895875778_FC.jpg Books - Woody Durham - Cover of Woody Durham: A Tar Heel Voice by Woody Durham and Adam Lucas. The image of Woody Durham smiling at the camera against a black background, with his hands resting on a basketball. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/voices-of-the-american-revolution-in-the-carolinas monthly 0.5 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722634517-DNWCPYJ64LZVLT5EZEAO/9780895873583_FC.jpg Books - Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas - The painting of a battle scene in the woods. Above the image is a gray band with the title in red script, and below the image is a red band with the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/d6875722-ed9a-4350-b845-e00b3f5bf224/500x500_Southern.png Books - Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas Ed Southern is the author of Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South, The Jamestown Adventure, Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas, and the short-story collection Parlous Angels. His work has appeared in South Writ Large, the Asheville Poetry Review, storySouth, the NC 10x10 Play Festival, and elsewhere. Since 2008, he has been the executive director of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. He lives in Winston-Salem. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/prayin-to-be-set-free monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722631311-E507RQEB6FN901NNXKZL/9780895872562_FC.jpg Books - Prayin' to Be Set Free - Cover of Prayin' to Be Set Free by Andrew Waters. A brown background with the black-and-white image of someone working in a field and looking at the camera. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/pirates-ghosts-and-coastal-lore monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722629715-ZFGKLYJYZA81BM31283I/9780895872951_FC.jpg Books - Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore - A photograph of the Hatteras Lighthouse taken from the ocean in very dark relief. 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James and Suzanne Gindlesperger are the authors of So You Think You Know Gettysburg?, which was the bronze winner in the travel guide category for ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Award in 2010. James is a “Friend of the Field” at Gettysburg and the author of three books about the Civil War: Escape from Libby Prison, Seed Corn of the Confederacy, and Fire on the Water. Suzanne is the cofounder of Pennwriters, a professional organization of published and aspiring authors. The couple lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/outer-banks-mysteries-and-seaside-stories monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722625204-JY93T5CI5OAR3F31TAW1/9780895870063_FC.jpg Books - Outer Banks Mysteries and Seaside Stories - A gray background with the painty of the Hatteras Lighthouse framed in the middle. The title is in black text above the painting. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/north-carolina-waterfalls monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722623169-5LCDX1SEHMKVHH9IQZYL/9780895876539_FC.jpg Books - North Carolina Waterfalls: 3rd Edition - A photograph of a waterfall in a bright green forest. The title is in white block letters centered on the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/d09a9c83-0147-48a1-9e18-134f4d8285e5/500x500_Adams.png Books - North Carolina Waterfalls: 3rd Edition In addition to North Carolina Waterfalls, Kevin Adams is the author of seven additional books and their numerous revisions. He has taught nature photography seminars since the early 1990s and leads popular tours in the N.C. mountains to photograph waterfalls. He is the man behind Digital After Dark blog and the free Night Photography News e-newsletter. He lives in the mountains of North Carolina. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/so-you-think-you-know-gettysburg-volume-2 monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722621796-UMWBGJS8C7PUB1NRLL8X/9780895876201_FC.jpg Books - So You Think You Know Gettysburg? Volume 2 - Cover of So You Think You Know Gettysburg by James and Suzanne Gindlesperger. The image of cannons on a green field on a clear day. The title is in orange letters in the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/110c757f-1219-473c-8d2c-d6a356f8cc94/500x500_Gindlesperger.png Books - So You Think You Know Gettysburg? Volume 2 James and Suzanne Gindlesperger are members of the Friends of Gettysburg Foundation, the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Civil War Preservation Trust. Suzanne is a cofounder of Pennwriters, a professional organization for published and aspiring authors. James is the author of three previous Civil War books. The couple lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/soul-food-odyssey monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722618540-3QB4QJLWH2F98IB2F3QV/9780895876461_FC.jpg Books - Soul Food Odyssey - An orange background with an array of picture frames holding the seperate words of the title. One of the picture frames has a menu written out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/e4e3e699-bb4c-442a-8ae6-a5082f707bf9/500x500_Tyson.png Books - Soul Food Odyssey Stephanie L. Tyson is a creative chef who has turned growing up in the South into the soul of her restaurant, Sweet Potatoes. Born in North Carolina, Tyson spent countless hours dreaming of the bright lights of anywhere else. But once she left to travel and cook around the world, she could not believe what a relief it was to come home again. Trained in culinary arts at Baltimore International College, Chef Tyson opened her award-winning restaurant with her partner, Vivián Joiner, in 2003 in the downtown Arts District of Winston-Salem, where they live. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/north-carolina-craft-beer-breweries monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722616830-36K9HVJENI03A454ADTG/9780895876621_FC.jpg Books - North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries - At the top of the page is an image of beer taps in a row. Below that is the title on a red textured background. Below that is an image of a flight of drinks in varying shades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/c85cfb6d-6b46-4aee-9f43-2f3dffcce4b3/500x500_Myers_Ficke.png Books - North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries Erik Lars Myers is the president of the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild and the founder, CEO, and head brewer at Mystery Brewing Company in Hillsborough, NC. Sarah H. Ficke received her PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Marymount University in Arlington, VA. In 2011, she put her academic research skills to work uncovering the history of brewing in the Tar Heel State for the first edition of North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries. They live in Durham, NC. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/my-ccc-days monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722615408-HFB9PM8KJJD7AVANEK2R/9781933251233_FC.jpg Books - My C.C.C. Days - A dark green background with a Civilian Conservation Corps seal centered. The image of the seal is in shades of pink and purple, with a pine tree in the center. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/seaside-spectres monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722610177-JV9E1CXVCXZMOBZLU9UL/Seaside%2BSpectres.jpg Books - Seaside Spectres - A navy background with the side profile of a skull in blue and purple. Clouds and the image of a lighthouse are drawn into the positive space, with the title written in the negative space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/5a1aacc9-be58-4b91-b05a-cab470322c18/500x500_Barefoot.png Books - Seaside Spectres Dan Barefoot was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 18, 1951. He is a 1973 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of law. Dan Barefoot is the author of four travel guides, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina’s Upper Coast, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina’s Lower Coast, Touring South Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites, and Touring North Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites; the biography of esteemed confederate general Robert Hoke entitled General Robert F. Hoke: Lee’s Modest Warrior; and a trilogy of ghost stories representing all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, Seaside Spectres, Piedmont Phantoms, and Haints of the Hills. Barefoot’s most recent books are Haunted Halls of Ivy: Ghosts of Southern Colleges and Universities, Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices, and Spirits of ’76. From 1998 until 2002, Barefoot served three terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the 44th district. He has also served on numerous boards and is active in his church and community. Barefoot currently serves as the city attorney for Lincolnton, North Carolina. 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The title is on a white block above, and both are marked with a light purple border. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/silk-flags-and-cold-steel monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722600851-0QW06YA7UOE2UJTBR0ON/9780895870865_FC.jpg Books - Silk Flags and Cold Steel - Cover of Silk Flags and Cold Steel by William R. Trotter. A beige background with the black-and-white drawing of a battlefield in a forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/79a2a2c2-6b57-43bf-928e-663cc46b048a/500x500_Trotter.png Books - Silk Flags and Cold Steel William R. (Bill) Trotter wrote his first novel at the age of 14. It was not publishable, of course, but a senior editor at Viking Press liked it well enough to become a valued mentor over the next ten years. Since that time, he hasn’t looked back in forty-five years. Trotter eschewed the traditional graduate-school MFA route to literary respectability (and job security), choosing instead the goal of actually supporting his family entirely by writing. For a long time, he was only partially successful at this, but he finally said farewell to part-time “real jobs” in 1983 and has, in fact, earned his entire living by the sweat of his keyboard ever since. Trotter told an interviewer back in 1994: “I’ve worked in some of the grubbiest neighborhoods of the scribbler’s trade and deployed all my skills and obscene amounts of my time in projects that meant nothing at all to me personally and that most proper Literary Authors would consider demeaning. But my reasoning was this: I would approach every freelance job, no matter how unglamorous it was, with the idea that I could learn something from the work that I could apply, later, to the projects that were personally important; and that I would never submit work-for-hire that I would be ashamed to have my by-line attached to.” That ’s one reason why Trotter has been able to leap successfully from one genre to another. (That’s also the reason why his agent once told him: “You have the most interesting resume in the business, Bill, but that doesn’t necessarily make you marketable!”) To thousands of computer game addicts, he is “The Colonel”, the Senior Writer for “PC Gamer” magazine, whose monthly column about war and strategy games (“The Desktop General”) has run continuously for fifteen years. To fans of the horror and fantasy genres, he’s the respected author of compelling short stories and novellas, whose work has twice been nominated for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. To aficionados of military history, he’s the author of the best-selling trilogy The Civil War in North Carolina and the definitive English-language history of the Russo-Finnish “Winter War”, A Frozen Hell. To music lovers, professional orchestra players, record collectors, and no small number of well-known conductors, he’s the author of a world-renowned biographer of the great Dimitri Mitropoulos, Priest of Music. To readers of mainstream literature, he’s a witty essayist, a respected book reviewer, and the author of four critically acclaimed novels, one of which has been optioned for a major motion picture. 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The title is on a dark brown block on the upper right side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/52c5386b-518a-4e6c-8860-1f0bd09b1c01/500x500_Williams.png Books - No Man's Yoke on My Shoulders Horace Randall Williams describes himself as “among the last of Alabamians - black or white - who have memories of picking cotton by hand not for a few minutes to see how it felt but because I needed the few dollars I would get for a day’s hard labor under a hot sun.” He was the founder and for many years the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Klanwatch Project. He also edited Weren’t No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/still-barrel monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722597100-J53T2FC2T7TW6N165YQA/9780895876836_FC.jpg Books - Still & Barrel - Cover of Still and Barrel by John Francis Trump. The bottom of a wine barrel with the title written in the center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/edbdd859-a050-4942-b349-deaded75cb7d/500x500_Trump.png Books - Still & Barrel A lifelong newspaper reporter & editor in NC, Trump received an MFA in narrative nonfiction from Goucher College. His thesis, which told the stories and profiles of North Carolina’s craft distilleries, evolved into a regular Huffington Post blog focused on the subject. That blog was the impetus for Still & Barrel. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/the-minotaur-takes-a-cigarette-break monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722595588-6VI5L55XIG1HJDEZ7E8L/9780895876751_FC.jpg Books - Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, The - A beige background with the small silouette of a minotaur centered at the bottom of the page. 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A prolific painter and nascent musician, Sherrill is now a professor of English & Integrative Arts at Penn State Altoona. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/piedmont-phantoms monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722592108-70D74KGTNOV6LKFOSIRI/Piedmont%2BPhantoms.jpg Books - Piedmont Phantoms - A dark brown background with the side profile of a skull in bright orange. There are patterns of leaves in the positive space of the skull, and the title is written in the negative space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/5a1aacc9-be58-4b91-b05a-cab470322c18/500x500_Barefoot.png Books - Piedmont Phantoms Dan Barefoot was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 18, 1951. He is a 1973 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of law. Dan Barefoot is the author of four travel guides, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina’s Upper Coast, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina’s Lower Coast, Touring South Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites, and Touring North Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites; the biography of esteemed confederate general Robert Hoke entitled General Robert F. Hoke: Lee’s Modest Warrior; and a trilogy of ghost stories representing all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, Seaside Spectres, Piedmont Phantoms, and Haints of the Hills. Barefoot’s most recent books are Haunted Halls of Ivy: Ghosts of Southern Colleges and Universities, Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices, and Spirits of ’76. From 1998 until 2002, Barefoot served three terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the 44th district. He has also served on numerous boards and is active in his church and community. Barefoot currently serves as the city attorney for Lincolnton, North Carolina. 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She’s also the recipient of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction, the Gerald Cable Poetry Prize, the Roanoke-Chowan Prize for Poetry, the Oscar Arnold Young Prize for Poetry, and the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for Poetry. The Slow Way Back was shortlisted for the Southeastern Independent Bookseller Alliance’s Novel of the Year. Judy lives with her husband in Charlotte, North Carolina. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/the-minotaur-takes-his-own-sweet-time monthly 0.5 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722585575-XF3O63T218O0LEZ7JLMX/9780895876737_FC.jpg Books - The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time - A gray background with a lighter gray circle centered. 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Russell’s first young-adult novel, Dead Rules, is being published by HarperTeen in June 2011. Russell presents ghost-lore programs to groups large and small across the South. He and his wife live outside Asheville, North Carolina. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/foods-that-make-you-say-mmm-mmm monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722560222-OBCGFK52ZGCFBQ2ZIQGC/9780895876294_FC.jpg Books - Foods That Make You Say Mmm-mmm - 9780895876294_FC.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/6f1cfee8-a98b-4175-920a-cce1a6447729/500x500_Garner.png Books - Foods That Make You Say Mmm-mmm Bob Garner is a television personality, restaurant reviewer, speaker, author, pit master, and connoisseur of North Carolina barbecue. 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Georgetown Mysteries and Legends is her third book. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/haints-of-the-hills monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722552138-LDDQ4UVVX206YVZ6JHZ1/Haints%2Bof%2Bthe%2BHills.jpg Books - Haints of the Hills - Cover of Haints of the Hills by Daniel W. Barefoot. A dark green background with a bright teal skull. The title is in thin letters in the negative space of the skull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/5a1aacc9-be58-4b91-b05a-cab470322c18/500x500_Barefoot.png Books - Haints of the Hills Dan Barefoot was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 18, 1951. He is a 1973 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of law. Dan Barefoot is the author of four travel guides, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina’s Upper Coast, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina’s Lower Coast, Touring South Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites, and Touring North Carolina’s Revolutionary War Sites; the biography of esteemed confederate general Robert Hoke entitled General Robert F. Hoke: Lee’s Modest Warrior; and a trilogy of ghost stories representing all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, Seaside Spectres, Piedmont Phantoms, and Haints of the Hills. Barefoot’s most recent books are Haunted Halls of Ivy: Ghosts of Southern Colleges and Universities, Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices, and Spirits of ’76. From 1998 until 2002, Barefoot served three terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the 44th district. He has also served on numerous boards and is active in his church and community. Barefoot currently serves as the city attorney for Lincolnton, North Carolina. 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Trotter eschewed the traditional graduate-school MFA route to literary respectability (and job security), choosing instead the goal of actually supporting his family entirely by writing. For a long time, he was only partially successful at this, but he finally said farewell to part-time “real jobs” in 1983 and has, in fact, earned his entire living by the sweat of his keyboard ever since. Trotter told an interviewer back in 1994: “I’ve worked in some of the grubbiest neighborhoods of the scribbler’s trade and deployed all my skills and obscene amounts of my time in projects that meant nothing at all to me personally and that most proper Literary Authors would consider demeaning. But my reasoning was this: I would approach every freelance job, no matter how unglamorous it was, with the idea that I could learn something from the work that I could apply, later, to the projects that were personally important; and that I would never submit work-for-hire that I would be ashamed to have my by-line attached to.” That ’s one reason why Trotter has been able to leap successfully from one genre to another. (That’s also the reason why his agent once told him: “You have the most interesting resume in the business, Bill, but that doesn’t necessarily make you marketable!”) To thousands of computer game addicts, he is “The Colonel”, the Senior Writer for “PC Gamer” magazine, whose monthly column about war and strategy games (“The Desktop General”) has run continuously for fifteen years. To fans of the horror and fantasy genres, he’s the respected author of compelling short stories and novellas, whose work has twice been nominated for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. To aficionados of military history, he’s the author of the best-selling trilogy The Civil War in North Carolina and the definitive English-language history of the Russo-Finnish “Winter War”, A Frozen Hell. To music lovers, professional orchestra players, record collectors, and no small number of well-known conductors, he’s the author of a world-renowned biographer of the great Dimitri Mitropoulos, Priest of Music. To readers of mainstream literature, he’s a witty essayist, a respected book reviewer, and the author of four critically acclaimed novels, one of which has been optioned for a major motion picture. 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As late as the 1920s, members of Clint’s family were trying to sue New York City for the return of their property. Clint counts Confederate soldiers from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama among his more recent ancestors. He is a native of Fish Branch, Florida, an unmapped community of orange groves, cypress bayheads, cattle ranches, panthers, bobcats, alligators, and friendly neighbors. Fish Branch is what Florida was before Walt Disney World changed the state. He graduated from high school in Arcadia, Florida, the cow town whose wild and wooly residents inspired many of the cowboy paintings of Frederick Remington. He then graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism. Fascinated with The War for Southern Independence (Northern readers can call it The Civil War if you wish) since the fourth grade, Clint has written eight books on The War. 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Trotter eschewed the traditional graduate-school MFA route to literary respectability (and job security), choosing instead the goal of actually supporting his family entirely by writing. For a long time, he was only partially successful at this, but he finally said farewell to part-time “real jobs” in 1983 and has, in fact, earned his entire living by the sweat of his keyboard ever since. Trotter told an interviewer back in 1994: “I’ve worked in some of the grubbiest neighborhoods of the scribbler’s trade and deployed all my skills and obscene amounts of my time in projects that meant nothing at all to me personally and that most proper Literary Authors would consider demeaning. 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A gray background with the photograph of a gold cast of a human face, with a snake coiled around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/cb0f99b3-807c-4647-bf83-2c3d44e33ebf/500x500_Green.png Books - Dead On Arrival Jaki Shelton Green is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. When he appointed her in 2018, Governor Cooper stated that "Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state's diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki's appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina's rich literary history." Her collegiate and professional experiences include currently teaching Documentary Poetry at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Visiting Professor for the Carlow University MFA Program, Lenoir-Rhyne University Writer-in-Residence, Duke University Teaching for Equity Fellow, Taller Portobelo Artist Colony in Portobelo Panama, University of Panama, Department of Cultural Resources for Brazil, North Carolina Turkish Association, Alhambra Cultural Center in Marrakech Morocco, NC Symphony, and the NC African America Cultural Heritage Commission. She is the owner of SistaWRITE and co-partner with Dream Yourself Awake and Vertikal Creative Ventures providing writing retreats and travel excursions for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Ocracoke North Carolina, Agadir Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland. Awards include 2019 NC Humanities Council Caldwell Award, 2019 American Academy of Poets Laureate Fellowship, 2018 Tar Heel of the Year Finalist, 2018 Indies Arts Award, 2018 NC Literary and Historical Association R. Hunt Parker Award, 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Award, 2017-2018 Duke University Faculty Travel Grants, 2017 Certification of Teacher Excellence presented by the Kingdom of Morocco Ministry of National Education, 2016 Kathryn H. Wallace Award for Artists in Community Service, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2010 Fine Arts Emerald Award (Raleigh LINKS), 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2007 Sam Ragan Award for Contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature (the highest award the state can bestow for significant contributions in science, literature, fine arts, and public service), 2003 North Caroliniana Society induction. Jaki Shelton Green is the recipient of two NC Emerging Artist Grants, the African American Writer’s Collective Distinction Award, NC Writers Network Blumenthal Award, 2002 Omega Iota Finer Womanhood Award (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority) Delta Arts Award (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority) Jaki Shelton Green is the author of eight collections of poetry: Dead on Arrival, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Masks, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, and breath of the song, published by Carolina Wren Press and Blair. Her other publications; Feeding the Light, I Want to Undie You are published by Jacar Press. Her poetry has been published in over eighty national and international anthologies and featured in magazines such as Essence and Ms. Magazine. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/conjure-blues monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722484488-G22YL96KOHZ61K6CDPWS/9780932112378_FC.jpg Books - Conjure Blues - A photograph of a red and white quilt with cushions and bowls of stones and artifacts on top. The botton third of the cover is a butter yellow with the text in red font. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/cb0f99b3-807c-4647-bf83-2c3d44e33ebf/500x500_Green.png Books - Conjure Blues Jaki Shelton Green is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. When he appointed her in 2018, Governor Cooper stated that "Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state's diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki's appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina's rich literary history." Her collegiate and professional experiences include currently teaching Documentary Poetry at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Visiting Professor for the Carlow University MFA Program, Lenoir-Rhyne University Writer-in-Residence, Duke University Teaching for Equity Fellow, Taller Portobelo Artist Colony in Portobelo Panama, University of Panama, Department of Cultural Resources for Brazil, North Carolina Turkish Association, Alhambra Cultural Center in Marrakech Morocco, NC Symphony, and the NC African America Cultural Heritage Commission. She is the owner of SistaWRITE and co-partner with Dream Yourself Awake and Vertikal Creative Ventures providing writing retreats and travel excursions for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Ocracoke North Carolina, Agadir Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland. Awards include 2019 NC Humanities Council Caldwell Award, 2019 American Academy of Poets Laureate Fellowship, 2018 Tar Heel of the Year Finalist, 2018 Indies Arts Award, 2018 NC Literary and Historical Association R. Hunt Parker Award, 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Award, 2017-2018 Duke University Faculty Travel Grants, 2017 Certification of Teacher Excellence presented by the Kingdom of Morocco Ministry of National Education, 2016 Kathryn H. Wallace Award for Artists in Community Service, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2010 Fine Arts Emerald Award (Raleigh LINKS), 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2007 Sam Ragan Award for Contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature (the highest award the state can bestow for significant contributions in science, literature, fine arts, and public service), 2003 North Caroliniana Society induction. Jaki Shelton Green is the recipient of two NC Emerging Artist Grants, the African American Writer’s Collective Distinction Award, NC Writers Network Blumenthal Award, 2002 Omega Iota Finer Womanhood Award (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority) Delta Arts Award (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority) Jaki Shelton Green is the author of eight collections of poetry: Dead on Arrival, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Masks, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, and breath of the song, published by Carolina Wren Press and Blair. Her other publications; Feeding the Light, I Want to Undie You are published by Jacar Press. Her poetry has been published in over eighty national and international anthologies and featured in magazines such as Essence and Ms. Magazine. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/chained-to-the-land monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722482725-O17FW6NWYBIW652OTTU3/9780895876263_FC.jpg Books - Chained to the Land - An image of a black man picking cotton. The top third of the cover is maroon with a burlap trim along the top. The title is in white text on the maroon. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/singing-a-tree-into-dance monthly 0.5 2022-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722479364-AS6WO8CCHMRFJY94IC0C/20180829_120755%255B3830%255D.jpg Books - singing a tree into dance - 20180829_120755%5B3830%5D.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/cb0f99b3-807c-4647-bf83-2c3d44e33ebf/500x500_Green.png Books - singing a tree into dance Jaki Shelton Green is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. When he appointed her in 2018, Governor Cooper stated that "Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state's diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki's appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina's rich literary history." Her collegiate and professional experiences include currently teaching Documentary Poetry at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Visiting Professor for the Carlow University MFA Program, Lenoir-Rhyne University Writer-in-Residence, Duke University Teaching for Equity Fellow, Taller Portobelo Artist Colony in Portobelo Panama, University of Panama, Department of Cultural Resources for Brazil, North Carolina Turkish Association, Alhambra Cultural Center in Marrakech Morocco, NC Symphony, and the NC African America Cultural Heritage Commission. She is the owner of SistaWRITE and co-partner with Dream Yourself Awake and Vertikal Creative Ventures providing writing retreats and travel excursions for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Ocracoke North Carolina, Agadir Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland. Awards include 2019 NC Humanities Council Caldwell Award, 2019 American Academy of Poets Laureate Fellowship, 2018 Tar Heel of the Year Finalist, 2018 Indies Arts Award, 2018 NC Literary and Historical Association R. Hunt Parker Award, 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Award, 2017-2018 Duke University Faculty Travel Grants, 2017 Certification of Teacher Excellence presented by the Kingdom of Morocco Ministry of National Education, 2016 Kathryn H. Wallace Award for Artists in Community Service, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2010 Fine Arts Emerald Award (Raleigh LINKS), 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2007 Sam Ragan Award for Contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature (the highest award the state can bestow for significant contributions in science, literature, fine arts, and public service), 2003 North Caroliniana Society induction. Jaki Shelton Green is the recipient of two NC Emerging Artist Grants, the African American Writer’s Collective Distinction Award, NC Writers Network Blumenthal Award, 2002 Omega Iota Finer Womanhood Award (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority) Delta Arts Award (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority) Jaki Shelton Green is the author of eight collections of poetry: Dead on Arrival, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Masks, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, and breath of the song, published by Carolina Wren Press and Blair. Her other publications; Feeding the Light, I Want to Undie You are published by Jacar Press. 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Selch's poems have been published in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, Calyx, The Asheville Poetry Review, Luna, and online at Swink, The Best American Poetry, and other sites. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/suddenly-fruit monthly 0.5 2022-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722474329-GHP3K1ZIP42692P4XJ24/9780932112521_FC.jpg Books - Suddenly, Fruit - 9780932112521_FC.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/009ffc7d-f713-4195-8dd8-8d3e2e84f3e7/500x500_Pennisi.png Books - Suddenly, Fruit Linda Tomol Pennisi's first book of poems, Seamless, won the 2003 Perugia Press Intro Prize and was funded in part by a Greenwald Fund Grant from the Academy of American Poets. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, she has had work appear in journals such as Hunger Mountain, McSweeny's and the online journal, Silk Creek Review. Originally from Pennsylvania, she now resides in Syracuse, New York, where she directs the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/the-flying-days monthly 0.5 2022-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722472984-NWLALP58FSXB2SJSANRD/9780932112989_FC.jpg Books - Flying Days, The - 9780932112989_FC.jpg https://blairpub.com/shop/p/breath-of-the-song monthly 0.5 2025-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722471962-SGA71IVMPAWXYAKMYCZN/9780932112491_FC.jpg Books - Breath of the Song - Cover of Breath of the Song by Jaki Shelton Green. A black background with a textured light teal center. An image of a bird and some flowers can be made out in a lighter tone on the blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/cb0f99b3-807c-4647-bf83-2c3d44e33ebf/500x500_Green.png Books - Breath of the Song Jaki Shelton Green is the first African American and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. When he appointed her in 2018, Governor Cooper stated that "Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state's diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki's appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina's rich literary history." Her collegiate and professional experiences include currently teaching Documentary Poetry at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Visiting Professor for the Carlow University MFA Program, Lenoir-Rhyne University Writer-in-Residence, Duke University Teaching for Equity Fellow, Taller Portobelo Artist Colony in Portobelo Panama, University of Panama, Department of Cultural Resources for Brazil, North Carolina Turkish Association, Alhambra Cultural Center in Marrakech Morocco, NC Symphony, and the NC African America Cultural Heritage Commission. She is the owner of SistaWRITE and co-partner with Dream Yourself Awake and Vertikal Creative Ventures providing writing retreats and travel excursions for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Ocracoke North Carolina, Agadir Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland. Awards include 2019 NC Humanities Council Caldwell Award, 2019 American Academy of Poets Laureate Fellowship, 2018 Tar Heel of the Year Finalist, 2018 Indies Arts Award, 2018 NC Literary and Historical Association R. Hunt Parker Award, 2018 Phi Beta Kappa Award, 2017-2018 Duke University Faculty Travel Grants, 2017 Certification of Teacher Excellence presented by the Kingdom of Morocco Ministry of National Education, 2016 Kathryn H. Wallace Award for Artists in Community Service, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee, 2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2010 Fine Arts Emerald Award (Raleigh LINKS), 2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2007 Sam Ragan Award for Contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature (the highest award the state can bestow for significant contributions in science, literature, fine arts, and public service), 2003 North Caroliniana Society induction. Jaki Shelton Green is the recipient of two NC Emerging Artist Grants, the African American Writer’s Collective Distinction Award, NC Writers Network Blumenthal Award, 2002 Omega Iota Finer Womanhood Award (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority) Delta Arts Award (Delta Sigma Theta Sorority) Jaki Shelton Green is the author of eight collections of poetry: Dead on Arrival, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Masks, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, and breath of the song, published by Carolina Wren Press and Blair. Her other publications; Feeding the Light, I Want to Undie You are published by Jacar Press. Her poetry has been published in over eighty national and international anthologies and featured in magazines such as Essence and Ms. Magazine. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/boy-returning-water-to-the-sea monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722470583-RQT5JQNZTJA8WN8KZBCP/9780979062308_FC.jpg Books - Boy Returning Water to the Sea - 9780979062308_FC.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/cfbc5985-5418-4e06-94f4-dcb2a8e0dec7/500x500_Selch.png Books - Boy Returning Water to the Sea Andrea Selch's full-length collection, Startling, was runner-up in the Turning Point competition in 2003, and was published by Turning Point in 2004, and reprinted by Cockeyed Press in 2009. 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Her poems have been published widely in U.S. and Canadian anthologies and journals, including Poetry, Black Warrior Review, The Portland Review, EPOCH, Stone Canoe, Redivider, Painted Bride Quarterly, Many Mountains Moving, Literal Latte and Gulf Coast, among many others. She lives in Cazenovia, NY. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/the-book-of-ystwyth monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722466914-033NKSVDRHJOBMO661NM/9780932112897_FC.jpg Books - Book of Ystwyth, The - A painting of a man huging a red wolf against a mustard-yellow background. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/and-aeneas-stares-into-her-helmet monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722464994-61IYD08V4MB25XBVE2UZ/9780932112576_FC.jpg Books - and Aeneas stares into her helmet - An abstract painting of a figure staring at something in their hands. The painting is in dark shades of brown and red, and the figure can only just be made out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/351d299a-41d1-426f-aae0-6b27a7f7c8ed/500x500_Higgins.png Books - and Aeneas stares into her helmet Tiffany Higgins' poems have been published in Big Bridge, The Kenyon Review and other journals. Her critical essays on the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Iraqui poet Dunya Mukhail have appeared in Poetry Flash. She has translated poems of the Lebanese writer Nadia Tueni, from the French, that have been published in the journal nocturnes. She teaches English at several colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/sacrilegion monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722462159-WN7DYKTNXEHKKON9T5FJ/9780932112934_FC.jpg Books - Sacrilegion - A photograph of three hands holding one another against a dark background. 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Wilson’s work centers the voices and experiences of black and brown folk thriving in the rural South despite relentless, centuries-long homegrown terrorism. Wilson, a Florida A&M alumnus, has received fellowships from the Cave Canem, Ragdale, and Hurston-Wright foundations, among others, and holds an MFA from Virginia Tech and a doctorate in African American and multiethnic American poetics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Wilson teaches at Wake Forest University and the Mississippi University for Women. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/a-half-red-sea monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722460664-9BYKAARHZO8TGMOXUCM2/9780932112538_FC.jpg Books - a half-red sea - Cover of a half-red sea by Evie Shockley. 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He is the recipient of the 2010 Chad Walsh Prize and the Writers at Work 2013 Fellowship in Poetry. He is also a recipient of the R. V. Cassil Fellowship in fiction by the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and an Individual Artist Literary Fellowship in fiction from the Tennessee Arts Commission. He was principal flutist of the Nashville Symphony for twenty-five years. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/matching-skin monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722449944-W3WDCX4ZUJJL970H97W4/005-08-CWPMatchSkinCOVER.frt_-254x360.jpg Books - Matching Skin - Cover of Matching Skin by Shirlette Ammons. 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He has won a Pushcart Prize, appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, the San Francisco Chronicle and on PBS, BBC & NPR. 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She won the Pearl magazine 2002 Fiction Prize for her short story, “Back on Earth.” She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and lives in Greensboro, NC. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/downriver monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722436049-IYIS1G20636GZDV85NG8/9780932112552_FC.jpg Books - Downriver - 9780932112552_FC.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/f3dd2764-13a0-40cd-ae33-77f4f25040af/500x500_Leiby+%281%29.png Books - Downriver Jeanne Leiby grew up downriver Detroit. She graduated from the University of Michigan, earned her MA from the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and her MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories, many of them collected here, have appeared in Fiction, New Orleans Review, The Greensboro Review, and Indiana Review, among others. For ten years, she has lived in Orlando, Florida, teaching creative writing at the University of Central Florida and editing The Florida Review. In 2008, she will move to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as an associate professor of English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Southern Review. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/a-falling-star monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722434422-KIHHK1E17KD61BGGU23K/9780932112958_FC.jpeg Books - A Falling Star - Cover of A Falling Star by Chantel Acevedo. A band of white at the top containing the title. 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Recent work has appeared in Bluestem, Hawaii Pacific Review, Waxwing, and Spartan. Her story “Strong Girls” will appear in Calyx’s 40th-anniversary issue, due out in March 2016. A 2014 recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship, she has also received awards from 4Culture, the Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe Foundation, and the City of Seattle. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/in-the-arms-of-our-elders monthly 0.5 2023-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722429610-03Y0SYL36GCCQK8ZW479/9780932112354_FC.jpg Books - In the Arms of Our Elders - 9780932112354_FC.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/a40779f9-1247-4f56-9a0a-da1c4bdbbfc1/500x500_Henry_Lewis.png Books - In the Arms of Our Elders William Henry Lewis is the prizewinning author of a previous story collection, In the Arms of Our Elders. His fiction has appeared in America's top literary journals and several anthologies. 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Calling her a "writer's writer," Allan Gurganus wrote the prize citation, saying, "Moira Crone is a fable maker with a musical ear, a plentitude of nerve, and an epic heart." Her work has been categorized as "Southern gnostic," in recognition of her spiritual, prophetic, and philosophical concerns. She has published three novels and three books of stories. Her shorter pieces have appeared in the New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oxford American, and more than two dozen anthologies. Her first speculative novel, THE NOT YET, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, an international prize for science fiction paper back of the year in 2013. Her current novel THE ICE GARDEN has been called "a heart stopper." https://blairpub.com/shop/p/smokies-chronicle monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722425892-8Z3LZG8LI8XRUIR5L1UF/9780895876935_FC.jpg Books - Smokies Chronicle - A photograph of a grassy field with a trail through it. In the background is a mountain line with clouds. A transparent gray block is on the left side of the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/c1691659-0461-4ba2-95d5-c675be9fa6d6/500x500_Ben_Anderson.png Books - Smokies Chronicle Ben Anderson was media relations director at Warren Wilson College from 1997 to 2015. Before that he was assistant professor of mass communications at Florida Southern College. He worked on the staffs of The Asheville Times, the Waynesville Mountaineer, Greensboro Record, Athens Banner-Herald, Atlanta Journal, Athens Daily News. He has been a backcountry volunteer for Great Smoky Mountains National Park for more than 20 years. He now does marketing and public relations work for the Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation in Asheville. A native of Atlanta, he lives in Asheville, NC. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/beaut monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722424568-Q8RE257U976JLYDC5130/9780932112743_FC.jpg Books - Beaut - A textured red background with the drawing of a camera at the bottom, cut off by the end of the page. 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Currently he teaches in the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Tampa. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/little-doomsday-clock monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722422792-HN7CL9F2E7IE7S9YIVMH/9780932112798_FC.jpg Books - Little Domesday Clock - A small yellow bird sits in the bottom right quadrant, with a starburst of yellow and red behind him. The title is in black letters above the starburst pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/fe0b70a3-a8bc-4cba-b211-1ddf90c85233/500x500_Witt.png Books - Little Domesday Clock Sam Witt's first book of poetry, Everlasting Quail, won the Katherine Nason Bakeless First Book Prize in 2000, sponsored by Breadloaf. His second book, Sunflower Brother, won the Cleveland State University Press Open Book competition for 2006. His poems have been published in Virginia Quarterly, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Fence, New England Review, among other journals, and in the anthologies The New Young American Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. He currently teaches creative writing and expository writing at Framingham State University, and serves as the poetry editor for Jaded Ibis Press. https://blairpub.com/shop/p/poetry-book monthly 0.5 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61f82645736d25269b13beda/1645722421532-UWCITLYUQOWT2CQ2T33N/9780932112712_FC.jpg Books - Hands of Strangers, The - Cover of The Hands of Strangers by Michael Farris Smith. A worn photograph of a city and a cloudy sky with a tear down the center. 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