Serious Writers Deserve an Unforgettable Release.Celebrate your book on the Outer Banks, February 26–28, 2027.

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Big Ideas.
Big Impact.
Big Celebration.

Your book release weekend will unfold in Corolla, North Carolina, along the beautiful and historic Outer Banks.

Guests will arrive on February 26 and be welcomed with a home-cooked dinner prepared by Nia Burks and artist Jennida Chase. February 27 will offer time to relax, celebrate, and enjoy the coast with classmates, friends, and spouses before gathering that evening for your official book release celebration. Departure will take place the morning of February 28.

Accommodations, welcome dinner, light breakfast, coffee service, and the book release celebration are graciously hosted by Nia Burks.

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Meet The Creative Team

I’m thrilled to introduce Jennida Chase and Hassan Pitts of s/n Coalition, an internationally exhibited interdisciplinary artist collaborative whose work has been screened and presented in more than 50 countries.

Both are professors in Media Studies at UNC Greensboro, with Jennida serving as tenured faculty, and their collaborative practice has earned recognition including finalist distinction for the MacArthur Grant in Documentary Film and the Sundance New Horizon Lab, alongside numerous grants, international residencies, and research affiliations with the UNESCO/UNITWIN Chair on Cultural Heritage and Digital Memory in Türkiye. Jennida and Hassan will be joining us in Corolla as part of the creative team for the weekend, helping shape our hospitality while creating documentary photography and individual author portraits that honor this moment in your lives and work. I feel incredibly fortunate to have artists of their experience, international reach, and conceptual rigor documenting the weekend, and documenting you as published authors.

Things To Do In OBX

Candle Making

Aqua Spa

Basnight’s Restaurant

Cape Hatteras, Lighthouse, Shelling

Corolla Wild Horses

Titty Shot Glasses And Touristy Tshirts

There’s also a rum distillery in Manteo, plenty of shopping outlets, a shipwreck museum in Hatteras, a UFO house in Rodanthe, Oregon Inlet fishing center in Nags Head, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, Jockeys Ridge Sand Dunes, the Bodie Island Lighthouse, surf fishing, sunset/sunrise watching on the beach, Tale of the Whale restaurant, The Paper Canoe, Whalehead Club, Currituck Beach Lighthouse, and many many many other things to do that range from free to very expensive, depending on your taste!