My memoir, Losing My Sister, was published by John F. Blair Publisher in October 2012.
Excerpts have appeared in Real Simple Magazine; Drafthorse, an online literary journal; The Charlotte Observer; and Luck: A Collection of Facts, Fiction, Incantations & Verse (Lorimer Press). I’ve read portions from the memoir as personal commentaries on WFAE-FM, NPR affiliate in Charlotte, NC, and on WUNC-FM, NPR affiliate in Chapel Hill, NC. Poems in the memoir appeared originally in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Black Warrior Review, and in the following anthologies: Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women’s Poetry (Beacon Press); Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars and the Road (Faber and Faber); and Here’s to the Land: 60th Anniversary Anthology of the North Carolina Poetry Society.
My second novel, Early Leaving, was published by William Morrow in 2004. My first novel, The Slow Way Back, published by William Morrow in 1999, won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for Best First Work of Fiction, and was a finalist for the Southeast Independent Booksellers Association’s Best Novel of the Year.
My two books of poetry are Holding Back Winter and Wanting To Know the End, winner of the Gerald Cable Poetry Award (a national prize) and the three top poetry prizes in North Carolina: the Roanoke-Chowan Prize, Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize, and Oscar Arnold Young Prize.
My book reviews have appeared in The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer. My poetry has been published in many literary journals, such as Kenyon Review, Ohio Review, Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, as well as in numerous anthologies. I received the Fortner Writer and Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, and the Beverly D. Clark Author Award from Queens University. I also was awarded a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency, the Arts & Science Council-Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc.
Born and raised in Rock Hill, SC, I live in Charlotte, NC. My husband I have two married children, three granddaughters and a grandson.
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Hi Judy,
I recently relocated to Charlotte from Boston where I left a very supportive writing group. I am working on my second novel and am trying to find a writing group with individuals who are not just starting the writing journey. I’ve tried to contact the Charlotte Writer’s Network, but haven’t heard back from them. If there are any people in the Charlotte area that you can direct me to, I would so appreciate it.
Thanks.
Sherry Nadworny
Hi Judy: Just after you had published The Slow Way Back I heard you speak at a seminar session for the North Carolina Writers Network. It was the first time I had ever attended a conference, and yours was the first session I ever heard. Well, some years later what you said, almost every word of it, has stuck with me and I’m here today to ask if you would blurb my debut novel. You made a difference that day – you made a new writer.
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Love your blog. Your passion and commitment to the writing process comes through. Thankyou.
Thanks, Janet, for the kind words. Hope your own writing goes well…
Judy:
Thought you’d like to see this about the program we recorded in 1999.
DG
For a long time we have hoped that some of the older North Carolina Bookwatch programs would be aired again. It may be a small beginning, but it is a hopeful one.
I hope you will help spread the word and consider sending your thanks to UNC-TV for adding this extra service to our state’s writers and readers.
UNC-TV CEO Tom Howe’s email address is thowe@unctv.org
DG
NORTH CAROLINA BOOKWATCH ENCORE SERIES BEGINS THIS MONTH ON WEDNESDAYS AT 11:30AM
Mildred “Mama Dip” Council’s 1999 appearance on North Carolina Bookwatch will be aired by UNC-TV at 11:30 am on Wednesday May 2 on its digital MX channel (Channel #172 or #4.4) on many Time Warner systems.
Mama Dip talked about her book, “Mama Dip’s Kitchen,” which is still in print and has been one of UNC Press’s all time best sellers.
During May and early June, programs in the encore series will feature Howard Covington (Terry Sanford: politics, progress, & outrageous ambitions), John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger (“Runaway Slaves”), Judy Goldman (“The Slow Way Back”), Richard Jenrette (“Adventures in Old Houses”), and Phillip Manning (“Islands of Hope”).