Event FinderMelissa Faliveno and the NC State Fiction Contest Award Ceremony
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- In person
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- Caldwell Hall, Lounge, Raleigh, NC, United States
About This Event
Join the Department of English for the NC State Literary Reading Series and NC State Fiction Contest Award Ceremony. Fiction writer and guest judge Melissa Faliveno will read fiction and participate in a Q&A session in conjunction with celebrating winners of the 2026 James Hurst Short Fiction and Shorter Fiction contests. MELISSA FALIVENO is the author of the novel Hemlock (Little, Brown, 2026) and the essay collection Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, and Debutiful, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her work, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received notable selection in Best American Essays, has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, and Brooklyn Rail, among others, and in the anthologies Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic (Harper Perennial, 2022) and Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music (Split/Lip, 2026). The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, Melissa holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina and lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill. www.melissafaliveno.com