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SUMMARY:Melissa Faliveno and the NC State Fiction Contest Award Ceremony
LOCATION:Caldwell Hall Lounge\, 2221 Hillsborough St.\, Raleigh\, NC 27695
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of English for the NC State Literary Readi
 ng 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 S
 hort Fiction and Shorter Fiction contests.\n\nMELISSA FALIVENO is the aut
 hor 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 Lib
 rary Association. Her work\, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Priz
 e and received notable selection in Best American Essays\, has appeared i
 n Esquire\, Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, Literary Hub\, Prairie Schoone
 r\, Brevity\, and Brooklyn Rail\, among others\, and in the anthologies S
 ex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult C
 lassic (Harper Perennial\, 2022) and Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music (Split
 /Lip\, 2026). The former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine\, Meli
 ssa holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MFA from S
 arah 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\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/46111bc1-ba
 0b-48ba-a0c8-f77c11ab4f4f
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