Lucy Cole Gratton is stepping down as Cherokee County Rep

Most of the counties in the NCWN-West Region have two representatives who hold at least one free event each month for writers. In Cherokee County Lucy Cole Gratton has served as one of the representatives. She has been an excellent volunteer for our program, first serving as Publicity Chair and then facilitator for the monthly readings at the John C. Campbell Folk School.

After four years, Lucy is stepping down and the other representative for Cherokee County, Mary Ricketson, will take over facilitating the readings. She will begin soon to schedule guests for the programs which begin in March, 2018.

If you are interested in being on the schedule, contact Mary. The event is held the third Thursday of the month at 7:00 PM. Readers must be current members of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. If you live in one of the nine counties in NC or the bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia or Tennessee that are part of the NCWN-West region, and you are a member of NCWN, you are eligible to read at the folk school in Brasstown, NC. 

Usually two people are invited for the hour. They are welcome to bring their books for sale. If you have not published a book, don’t worry. I remember my first time reading in 1996 when I had only published a few poems.

Students from all over the United States and sometimes from foreign countries attend, as well as local people in four counties and members of NCWN-West. The readings are publicized in articles in all local newspapers with a bio and a photo. Joan Gage, administrator for our website and blog, www.netwestwriters.blogspot.com also posts articles about the reading. The Network includes these events in their emails to members. The Network wrote a nice article about Lucy on the White Cross blog.

We appreciate, so much, Lucy’s loyalty to NCWN-West and going the extra mile to be sure the audience felt a part of the performance.  As Program Coordinator, it was good to know that she had everything under control even when both readers cancelled just a couple of hours before the reading.

Lucy plans to move down to Atlanta to be near her family, and their gain is our loss. Contact Cherokee County Reps at the email addresses below:

Mary Ricketson- maryricketson311@hotmail.com
Lucy Cole Gratton- lgratton@hughes.net

Glenda Council Beall

Program Coordinator for NCWN-West