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Irene Blair Honeycutt
Honeycutt’s first poetry manuscript, It Comes as a Dark Surprise, won Sandstone Publishing’s Regional Poetry Contest in 1992 and underwent four printings. Her poems have won awards and have appeared in national journals, including Nimrod, Asheville Poetry Review, Cold Mountain Review, Southern Poetry Review, Pembroke Magazine, Devil’s Millhopper, Croton Review, Crucible, The Arts Journal, and St. Andrews Review. She has also seen her poems anthologized in Sandburg-Livesay International Award Anthology; Only Morning in Her Shoes (Utah State University Press); Trapping Time Between the Branches; No Hiding Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Charlotte Area Writers, and most recently in Earth and Soul in which all poems were translated into Russian and widely distributed in Russia. In 1998 Creative Loafing magazine acknowledged Honeycutt by giving her the Best of Charlotte Award for the best contribution to the improvement of the literary climate in the city of Charlotte. In 1997 the Charlotte Writers Club honored her by naming her the first recipient of the Adelia Kimball Founders Award because of her advocacy for writers. Honeycutt received her MA degree in English from East Tennessee State University. She has studied at Bread Loaf in Vermont and at the Art of the Wild Writers Workshop in Squaw Valley, California. She received a North Carolina Arts Council Scholarship to study at the Prague Summer Writers Workshop in the Czech Republic. In 2000 Honeycutt became the recipient of a Creative Fellowship from the Arts and Science Council.
Books by Irene Blair Honeycutt Before the Light Changes (2008) It Comes as a Dark Surprise (2001) The Prince with the Golden Hair (2006) |
Irene Blair Honeycutt grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and has lived in South Carolina, Illinois, and Tennessee. She now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and teaches creative writing at Central Piedmont Community College where she is the director of the college’s Annual Spring Literary Festival. She also teaches journal writing at Queens University and leads writing workshops around the region. In addition, her interests in mythology and classic fairy tales have led her to teach classes through the Haden Institute in Charlotte.