Chapel Hill resident Howard Carter's story, "Mr. Mason's Request," has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize from the N.C. Writers Network. Editor and publisher Shannon Ravenel picked "Dickhead" by Anne Barnhill of Garner as the first runner-up, and "Shack on Fire," by Bill Morris of Durham, as the second runner-up. The winner will receive a prize of $1,000 from the network, and all three stories will be considered for publication by The Thomas Wolfe Review.--From heraldsun.com, May 6, 2009

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