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Cauley wins first two Wilma Dykeman Awards for Writers of Color
Crystal Cauley, a Hendersonville creative writer, spoken word poet and African American advocate, recently won two awards for short stories published in The Urban News.
Cauley was the recipient of the first two Wilma Dykeman Awards for Writers of Color along with $200 for The Talking Walls and Grounded: A Mother s Love.
Wilma Dykeman was a writer, speaker, teacher, historian, environmentalist and social justice advocate who lived near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee.
Dykeman is a North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee. She died in 2006.