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Clayton author wins literary award
from July 2023
by Johnston Now
Submitted by KAREN LAURITZEN
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Clayton author Karen Lauritzen has won First Prize in the 2023 Porter Fleming Literary Awards through the Morris Museum of Art for her nonfiction essay “Making My Way Home.”
Lauritzen tells the story of the lives of those buried in a family cemetery on her property in North Carolina and how we Americans put death out of sight and what happens if we do not.
She is a member of the N.C. Writers' Network and the Triangle East Writers group. Her memoir “Nothing Vanishes, Memoir of a Life Transformed” was published in 2012 and her first novel “Just the Right Amount of Wrong” will be published in 2023.
The Porter Fleming Literary Competition, recognizing talented writers who reside in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, was established in 1993 by Shirley Fleming to honor her late father, noted author and artist Berry Fleming.
Funded by the Porter Fleming Foundation, the competition is organized and administered by the Morris Museum of Art. The Porter Fleming Foundation was established by Berry Fleming in 1963 as a memorial to his father, Porter Fleming, a prominent Augustan and one of the city’s leading philanthropists.
To learn more about Lauritzen and her work, visit karenlauritzen.com and nothingvanishes.com.
