UNC
Asheville is now accepting applications for the first Ramsey Library Community
Author Award for a prose writer in Western North Carolina. The award will
provide a yearlong residency in UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library, with a courtesy
faculty appointment that will provide a library study carrel and other campus
resources. Entries will be judged by a committee, including best-selling author
and UNC Asheville Writer-in-Residence Wiley Cash. Heather Newton, author of the
award-winning novel Under the Mercy Trees, will serve as the final judge
for the award.
"It's
no secret that Asheville has one of the most vibrant and diverse literary
communities in the nation,” said Cash. “The Ramsey Library Community Author
Award connects UNC Asheville with these writers, bringing them into the
inspiring campus community and offering them the necessary privacy and space that
writing demands."
Newton
is a local author, lawyer and instructor in the Great Smokies Writing Program.
Her novel, Under the Mercy Trees, won the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Memorial
Literary Award, was chosen by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great
Group Reads Selection and by the Southern Independent Bookstore Alliance as an
Okra Pick (“great southern fiction fresh off the vine”), and was long-listed
for both the 2012 SIBA Book Award and the American Library Association’s Over
The Rainbow project.
The
residency period runs from January – December, 2017, and will culminate in an
opportunity for the Community Author to showcase his or her work at a campus
reading at the end of the residency period, and will alternate each year
between prose in fiction or non-fiction and poetry/drama. The Ramsey Library
Community Author Award is open to writers residing in Western North Carolina,
and requires a writing sample, a CV or resume, and two references. Applications
are available online at library.unca.edu/RLCAA/community_author_award.
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