It’s the New Year, which usually means new writing goals—goals that are easy to set, but harder to follow through on. We know just how challenging it can be to find time and space to focus on your writing, so this year, we’re introducing a new class—just for parents! Check out this interview with our fabulous fiction instructor Diana Fenves as she discusses the new class, tips, and what she wished she’d known before becoming a parent…
Read MoreMeet our 2023 Coppice Prize winners and preorder the anthology.
Read MoreAre people still doing pun titles on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once? (Great movie, btw.) Well, despite our cultural dawdling, we promise that these are helpful resources for submitting your work, learning about craft, reading more widely, and meeting your writing goals. Whether you’re a beginning writer or more experienced one, there’s something for everyone! To the resources then!
What are some good articles on submitting my work?
Read MoreWe’re thrilled to announce that we are going to be dramatically increasing the number of free and community-based classes that we’ll be offering in the coming year.
Read MoreArshia and Emily rounded up our favorite books of 2021 (note: this list will not necessarily include books that were published in 2021, but books that we happened to read during the year).
Read MoreThis winter, we’re doing a series where we introduce you to our Redbud students! In this, our inaugural post in this series, meet Naomi East, who recently completed Ben Murphy’s Writing the Novel class.
Read MoreThis month, we’re doing a series where we introduce you to our Redbud students! In this, our inaugural post in this series, meet Casey Shapack, who’s taken Writing the Novel, a few Advanced Workshops, and, most recently, Writing Feminist Works.
Read MoreWhy should you take Eclectic Inspiration: Six Flash Pieces in Six Weeks? Here are ten great reasons!
1) It’s fun! The challenge of creating a compelling narrative in such a short space is quite engaging.
2) You will produce a lot! After all, it’s six pieces in six weeks! …
Read MoreToday we ventured out to the countryside of Chatham County to visit a bookstore that’s been around since 1989 but that we’d never before visited: McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village.
Read MoreWe’ve been remiss about our Bookstores of the Triangle adventures of late, what with all the excitement about teaching in person and the Coppice Prize and all that good stuff, but yesterday, we found time to visit a brand-new bookstore in Durham: Rofhiwa Book Cafe on Driver Street in Old East Durham.
Read MoreWe’re absolutely thrilled to announce the results of the first-ever annual Coppice Prize! We received 250 submissions, so it was quite the challenge to pick first twenty, then ten, and then finally three winners.
Read MoreYou might know the strip of shops and restaurants along 15 in Durham for bakery and beer garden Guglhupf and for gourmet food mainstay Foster’s Market. But if you don’t know it for bookstore Golden Fig—you should rectify that!
Read MoreNice Price Books & Records is one of those shops on Hillsborough Street that recalls a time when, we’ve heard, this artery was all punk coffeeshops and indie businesses, rather than…what it is now. Nice Price is a used record, CD, and bookshop located in the same block as Cup A Joe.
Read MoreWe love how this store is organized: books for little kids are located on the bottom shelves, while MG and YA books are located on the top shelves, so kids can age up from bottom shelves to top as they get taller.
Read MoreSo&So has recently moved across the street to a much more spacious storefront at 719 N. Person (in case you haven’t heard, your very own Redbud Writing Project will be operating out of the garden-level side of this building!).
Read MoreReader’s Corner is a used bookstore, selling cheap books from its outside shelves and slightly more expensive, high-quality tomes inside. It’s not a store to go to if you absolutely know you must have the latest hardcover that came out last week; however, they somehow, miraculously, often stock beautiful, like-new copies of new releases from the last five to ten years.
Read MoreEpilogue, located on bustling Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, is a gathering place for locals and students alike. Its waffles and Mexican sweets are delicious, its drinks innovative (Emily doesn’t usually like artisanal coffee drinks, but their dulce jalapeño syrup? Chef’s kiss!), its books both new and old well-curated and socially conscious.
Read MoreNo bookstore tour of the Triangle would be complete without mentioning Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh's flagship indie store. Founded in 1984, Quail Ridge is currently located in the North Hills area, and is a hub for visiting author events, kids’ story hours, writing classes (ahem), and more.
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