![]() But the author manages this bounty with skill and delicacy. “This story packed a lot of life in its pages–a lot of characters and the complicated dynamics between them, a lot of heavy history that informs Sharla’s actions in the present. Here’s what final judge Holly Goddard Jones said about Julia’s piece: When not walking her dog around the neighborhood, she volunteers as a docent at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, helps coordinate the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, and serves as the editor of Inch, a literary journal focused on the miracles of compression. She lives with her family in her hometown, Greensboro, where she teaches in the English Department at UNCG. Julia has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a Tennessee Williams Scholar in fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony, and Crossfield Fellow at the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency. A North Carolina native, she earned a BA in English at UNC Chapel Hill and an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Julia Ridley Smith’s short stories and essays have appeared most recently in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Electric Literature, the New England Review, and The Southern Review. * * * * * The 2019 Cos Barnes Fellow in Fiction was presented to Julia Ridley Smith “At the Arrowhead” Submissions for the Cos Barnes Fellowship in Fiction are open from May 1 through July 31.Ī new link to submit your entries will be added in May. The recipient will be awarded a one-week residency at Weymouth and a $500.00 stipend. In honor of Cos Barnes, the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities offers an annual merit-based fellowship for one North Carolina writer.Ĭos Barnes, a talented writer and former chair of Weymouth’s Residency Program, was dedicated to its writers and poets.
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