Each year the North Carolina Literary Review hosts the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. Winners from the competition will read from their submissions. The 2011 first place winner, Robert Wallace, has had fiction and nonfiction published in various venues, including Bryant Literary Review, The Long Story, and Racing Home: New Short Stories by Award Winning North Carolina Writers. He is the author of the novel A Hold on Time and writes a monthly column for the News and Observer. Second place winner, Gregg Cusick, has had stories published in Chelsea, The Bellevue Literary Review, and Alligator. Cusick won the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and in 2011 received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Melanie Raskin is a Chapel Hill resident whose work has been published in Seems and Spectator Magazine. In 1985, she co-founded the Triangle Writers Group.