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Announcing the Great Circle Books Manuscript Lab

We are excited to announce the inaugural Great Circle Books Manuscript Lab! This workshop is designed to offer feedback and support to emerging writers—those who have not yet published a book of literary nonfiction—at work on a proposal. Manuscript lab applicants should be writing about a topic that merges the human experience with our relationship to place, and applicants should come,… Continue Reading Announcing the Great Circle Books Manuscript Lab

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October 17, 2022

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Kiese Layman Named Among 2022 Macarthur Fellows

Last week, the MacArthur Foundation announced its 25 fellows and recipients of the “genius grant.” We were thrilled to see P. Gabrielle Foreman, co-editor of The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, and Kiese Layman, co-editor of our Great Circle Books series, among this years list of geniuses! Join us in giving a huge congratulations to these… Continue Reading P. Gabrielle Foreman and Kiese Layman Named Among 2022 Macarthur Fellows

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2022 AWP Annual Meeting

After two years away, UNC Press is excited to be exhibiting in-person at AWP 2022 – we hope you’ll stop by our table T1007! And if you can’t join us in-person, please visit our virtual booth! UNC Press is thrilled to announce its new literary nonfiction series, Great Circle Books, edited by Kiese Laymon and Marie Mutsuki Mockett. Great Circle publishes literary… Continue Reading 2022 AWP Annual Meeting

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