| Robert H. Fleming of Raleigh wins the Robert Ruark Award for Non-Fiction Creative Writing at UNC-CH for 2011! |
The 2011 Robert Ruark Award for Creative Writing was presented to Robert Henry Fleming on Wednesday April 27, 2011, by the Department of English, Comparative Literature and Creative Writing in the ceremony of Honors, Highest Honors and Awards, at the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also received a $1,000 scholarship check from the Robert Ruark Society. Ruark would have been proud of this young man!
This award winning student is a Junior at the University of North Carolina where he is on target to graduate in May, 2012, with an Economics degree and minor in Creative Writing. He received his International Baccalaureate Diploma from Raleigh's Needham B. Broughtton High School in 2008. Robert is also a winner of the Trey Cheek Memorial Short Story Contest Writing Scholarship.
He is Vice President of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and has worked summers for Batchelor Tillery and Roberts, an accounting firm based in Raleigh. He has also been honored to have been selected to serve 2010-2011 as an Editorial Board Member for The Daily Tar Heel. This summer he has also been selected to participate in a three-week internship for U.S. Congressman Howard Coble, followed by a five-week internship with U. S. Senator Richard Burr.
Just like Ruark, Robert Fleming also spends a lot of time hunting and fishing in Eastern North Carolina, especially on the Pungo River in Beasufort and Hyde Counties.
To read Robert's award winning story just click here on "Beagles" and then enjoy the following photo slide presentation from the awards ceremony on April 27, 2011 in Chapel Hill.
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