Sea Leaf Book Editing

09/18/2026

We're curled up with some murder mysteries. You?

09/17/2026

Have you seen the new Northchase Library yet? Check out the fantasy/romance book club at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 21, and discuss “Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries” by Heather Fawcett.

🧚 Faeries, folklore, and a little academic adventure...
Join the Fantasy/Romance Book Club as we discuss Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett.

Whether you loved the book, have questions about the story, or are ready to share your favorite characters and magical moments, we’d love to have you join the conversation.

📅 Monday, September 21 | 5:30 PM
📍 Northchase Library

Registration is suggested as space and supplies are limited - https://loom.ly/pC-19s8

Bring your bookish opinions. Magical debates are encouraged. ✨

09/16/2026

Join the crowd at Beckwith Hall Sept. 24 to celebrate Melissa Crowe’s new poetry collection. Crowe is associate professor and chair of the UNCW Department of Creative Writing.

Coming to the beautiful Beckwith Recital Hall (in the CAB at UNCW) on Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 pm—the launch of Melissa Crowe’s third collection, Abider! You bet there will be book cake and big hijinks, and we hope there will be you! Free and open to the public. Save the date!

09/16/2026

Submissions are open now!

‼️ NOW OPEN ‼️

The Doris Betts Fiction Prize, sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network, is now accepting submissions!

This year's final judge is acclaimed author LaTanya McQueen, whose novel, “When the Reckoning Comes” is a nominee for Goodreads Choice and a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award!

The Doris Betts Fiction Prize is open until October 31 to any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network.

The winner will receive $250 AND publication in the North Carolina Literary Review

To learn more and enter, visit the link in our bio or go to: https://www.ncwriters.org/programs/competitions/doris-betts-fiction-prize/

Good Luck!

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09/15/2026

Writing isn’t all about fiction, which reflects real life. Some beloved books record real life.

While growing up in Michigan, Bruce Catton was enthralled by the stories told by elderly Civil War veterans. Those stories inspired a passion that would contribute to making him one of history’s most popular historians of the Civil War.

Catton withdrew from Oberlin College in 1916 to join the navy during World War I. He became a journalist after the war, never completing his college degree. In 1954 he became the founding editor of American Heritage magazine.

Between 1951 and 1953 Catton published a three-volume history of the Union Army of the Potomac. A tremendously gifted narrative historian, his writing was scholarly but also engaging. The final volume in the trilogy, A Stillness at Appomattox, won the National Book Award for nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for history. The series earned Catton an admiring and devoted following and a reputation as one of America’s best Civil War historians.

He followed the trilogy with 1956’s This Hallowed Ground, a one volume history of the war that was also a commercial success. In conjunction with the commemoration of the Civil War centennial, he published a three-volume history of the war, again to acclaim and commercial success. His American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (1960) helped make Civil War nerds out of untold thousands of American boys, including your humble author. By the end of his extraordinary career Catton had published over two dozen narrative histories of the war. In 1977 President Gerald Ford awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Bruce Catton died in Frankfort, Michigan on August 28, 1978, at age 78, widely regarded as one of history’s most influential and admired Civil War historians.

09/15/2026

First session is Friday!

Introducing our first instructor of Season Eleven: Marah Hoffman!

Marah Robyn Hoffman is a poet–turned–creative–nonfiction writer from Pennsylvania. She recently earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) in spring 2026. At UNCW, Hoffman taught undergraduate students, worked as the creative nonfiction editor of Ecotone, and hosted Write Wilmington. In the fall of 2022, she was the long-term writer-in-residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her work can be found in Fourth Genre and Strange Hymnal.

Register here or at the link in our bio to join us in welcoming Marah back to our Write Wilmington community this Friday: https://forms.gle/cbmi6YF61NDiMkCr8

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09/11/2026

Will the real "final" manuscript please stand up?

09/10/2026

Floodplain Books, set to open in 2027, will feature some indie titles. Learn more in the FAQs.

09/09/2026

NaNoWriMo is no more, but the Wilmington version rises from the ashes.
You must be a member of Wilmington Writes (worth it!) to see the details, and links are in the comments.