Accent on Books
854 Merrimon Ave.
Asheville, NC
(828) 254-3200

Bull's Head Bookshop
207 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC
(919) 962-5060

City Lights Bookstore
3 East Jackson Street
Sylva, NC
(828) 586-9499

Literary Book Post
119 Souh Main Street
Salisbury, NC
(704) 630-9788

Malaprop's Bookstore/Café
55 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC
(828) 441-9829

Mr. K's Used Books & More
800 Fairview Road
Asheville, NC
(828) 299-1145

Pomegranate Books
4418 Park Avenue
Wilmington, NC
(910) 452-1107

Quail Ridge Books
3522 Wade Avenue
Raleigh, NC
(919) 828-1588

The Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth Street
Durham, NC
(919) 286-2700

Carolina African American Writers Collective
The Carolina African American Writers' Collective (CAAWC) is a workshop and readers' group that meets monthly to critique one other's literary work, read and discuss books by African American authors, and discuss and share information about the literary scene. The group includes some 30 members who are poets, fiction writers, dramatists, critics, essayists, journalists, children's writers, graphic artists, publicists, photographers, and editors. Although based in Raleigh, the collective has members presently in California, New York, Alabama, and Virginia. The organization was founded in February 1992 by Lenard D. Moore.

North Carolina Arts Council
Celebrates those who create and enjoy art in all 100 counties of the state. The website contains extensive state-wide resources, including information about events, poetry organizations, and application deadlines.

North Carolina Haiku Society
The North Carolina Haiku Society was founded in 1979 to promote the writing and appreciation of haiku in English through writing haiku, maintaining the website and hosting an annual Haiku Holiday, which features experienced haiku teachers and poets who conduct workshops, talks and walks.

The North Carolina Poetry Society Inc.
Since 1932, the Poetry Society has existed as an all-volunteer organization for poets and friends of poets. They hold regular meetings three times a year in Southern Pines, North Carolina at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. They also sponsor the Sam Ragan Poetry Festival, and numerous contests for members.

The North Carolina Writers' Network
The North Carolina Writers' Network serves writers at every stage of development through programs that offer opportunities for professional growth, including five literary competitions, conferences, workshops, and a Critiquing and Manuscript Consultation Service. The Writers' Network is a vital educational and cultural resource whose motto embodies its broad-based mission--"Writing and Reading: Everybody's Art!"

Poetry Alive!
Each year Poetry Alive! conducts approximately 2200 performances, over 700 classroom follow ups, and 100 teacher workshops for an estimated 600,000 students nationwide. In addition, Poetry Alive! sponsored the Asheville Poetry Festival for several years and hosts an annual week-long summer residency for teachers.

Winston-Salem Writers
An incorporated, nonprofit association of writers, poets and others who support the art and craft of writing. Programs include weekly lectures on publication, annual poetry workshops, weekly open mic poetry readings, an annual poetry contest, and publication of the online newsletter Write Bites.

The Carolina Quarterly
Since 1948, The Carolina Quarterly has printed creative writing by established and emerging writers and poets along with penetrating reviews and fascinating features. Past contributors include A. R. Ammons, Doris Betts, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Raymond Carver, Mark Doty, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Smith, and Charles Wright.

Carolina Wren Press
New Authors, new audiences. Carolina Wren Press is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to publish quality writing, especially by writers historically neglected by mainstream publishing, and to develop diverse and vital audiences through publishing, outreach, and educational programs.

Cave Wall
Cave Wall, published twice a year, is a national literary magazine dedicated to publishing the best in contemporary poetry. We are interested in poems of any length and style from both established and emerging poets. Each issue includes black & white art, as well.

Duke University Press
The Duke University Press supports the academic mission of Duke University by disseminating knowledge--through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files--beyond the confines of the University's campus. Duke University Press publishes about 100 books per year and 32 journals, which places the Press's books publishing program among the twenty largest at American university presses and the journals publishing program among the five largest.

The Greensboro Review
The Greensboro Review is published by the M.F.A. program of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. The magazine is produced twice a year, in the fall and spring.

International Poetry Review
International Poetry Review publishes poems from contemporary writers in all languages, with English translations. A portion of every issue is dedicated also to work originally written in English. International Poetry Review is published in the spring and fall of each year by the University of North Carolina, Greensboro's Department of Romance Languages.

The Jargon Society
What other press would devote equal effort to White Trash Cooking and The Collected Poems of Lorine Neidecker at the same time? Such diversity of taste spills over into the Jargon Society. Not only do they publish poetry, but they also sponsor programs in literature and the arts. Occasionally they provide support for a poet who is deserving but unrecognized.

Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
is based in Charlotte and has been publishing their magazine Main Street Rag since 1996. It features poetry, short fiction, essays, reviews and more. They host an annual chapbook contest as well as The Main Street Rag Poetry Award for full length collections.

The Pedestal Magazine
The Editors of The Pedestal Magazine, support both established and burgeoning writers and are committed to promoting diversity and celebrating the voice of the individual.

North Carolina Literary Review
North Carolina Literary Review is published annually by East Carolina University's English Department and the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. The journal features poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by and interviews with North Carolina writers, and articles and essays about the state's literature, history, and culture.

Press 53
Press 53 is a small independent publisher of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that was founded in October 2005. Kevin Morgan Watson is the founder, owner and Fiction Editor. Tom Lombardo is Poetry Editor. Press 53 is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and publishes full-length books by both new and established writers. In addition to finding and showcasing new writers and new books, it also has a fondness for bringing back great books that are out of print, which it re-issues under the Press 53 Classics imprint.

St. Andrews College Press
A college press that publishes poetry, as well as produces the literary magazine CAIRN.

Southern Cultures
Published for the Center for the Study of the American South by the University of North Carolina Press, Southern Cultures provides a rich forum of animated, informed voices discussing all aspects of southern life.

University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press is the oldest university press in the South and one of the oldest in the country and it has a strong regional publishing program.

Wake Foreset University Press
Established in 1976, Wake Forest University Press is a non-profit literary publisher located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on the campus of Wake Forest University. Although small among university presses, they are the major publisher of Irish poetry in North America.

Mountain Time
by Kathryn Stripling Byer
Up here in the mountains / we know what extinct means...

Davidson College
Learning to write well is an important feature of a Davidson education and a special emphasis in the English Department, where all courses involve instruction in writing. While students at Davidson cannot major in writing, they can take a variety of writing courses throughout their four years. The English Department offers a wide array of writing courses, and the McGee Professorship features various visiting writers for a semester. Past visiting professors include Henri Cole and Maxine Kumin.

Queens University of Charlotte
The low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens involves four semesters of coursework, each of which includes a seven-day on-campus residency and — in the periods between residencies — an on-line workshop where you share your writing with three or four other students and your faculty mentor for that semester. Faculty members include Cathy Smith Bowers, Bob Hicock, Cathy Park Hong, Sally Keith, Sebastian Matthews, Rebecca McClanahan, James McKean, Alan Michael Parker, John Pineda, Robert Polito, and Claudia Rankine.

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The undergraduate Creative Writing Program at UNC-Chapel Hill is--and has long been--one of the best in the country. Its first-rate faculty and students have published very widely, won many prizes, and played a major role in shaping the contemporary literature of North Carolina, the South, and the nation. The University hosts the Second Sunday reading series and the Blanche Armfield Poetry Reading, an annual event that brings a prominent American poet to the campus.

The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The M.F.A. program in creative writing at UNC-Greensboro is one of the oldest such programs in the country. During the early years, the University had among its faculty a number of noted writers, such as Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, John Crowe Ransom, Hiram Hayden, Peter Taylor, and Randall Jarrell. They invited other distinguished writers to campus to read from their work and to meet with students; these writers included Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Saul Bellow. In 1965, under the leadership of Robert Watson, creative writing offerings were formalized. Since that time, enrollment has grown, but the faculty has intentionally kept the program small, enabling students to have individual conferences with faculty. The writing program publishes The Greensboro Review and hosts a visiting writers series.

The University of North Carolina, Wilmington
"We are a community of passionate, dedicated writers who believe that the creation of art is a pursuit valuable to both self and culture. Our faculty fosters a rigorous yet supportive environment in which you can grow as a writer and as a person." UNC-Wilmington offers both B.F.A. (undergraduate) and M.F.A. (graduate) programs in creative writing; hosts a visiting writers series; The King's Road Writers Series, which sponsors readings by as many as five distinguished authors each year; and the annual Writers Week Symposium.

Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson offers a low-residency M.F.A. program in creative writing. The Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers is more than a course of study; it is a way to become a better writer. Every six months students gather on the Warren Wilson College campus, located outside of Asheville in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Although they come from all over the country, they form a cohesive, non-competitive community that offers camaraderie, direction and a practical way to pursue writing while maintaining the responsibilities of adult life.

Anson County Writers' Club
Formed in 1989 to bring together prose and poetry writers for mutual support and learning, to sponsor workshops, speakers and an annual contest and to foster public awareness of local talent.

Writer's Week Symposium
An annual event at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, featuring workshops, panels, readings and manuscript conferences. The week brings together graduate students, undergraduate students, and the community interested in the art of writing to promote the discussion of craft.

North Carolina Writers Network Conferences
The Network sponsors two conferences each year—a Spring Conference in late May and and a Fall Conference in late October or early November. These conferences bring together hundreds of writers for workshops, readings, networking, and lively discussion.