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Monday, June 6, 2022

Multi-Talented Carrol Taylor: Zoom Reading June 10, 7 pm

Writers' Night Out - June 10, 7 p.m.

Reading + Discussion... + Open Mic 
Carroll Taylor, multi-genre writer


"When Sissie Stevenson reluctantly begins her fifth grade year at Slippery Branch Elementary School, she has lots of questions that need answers. How can she stop the class bully from picking on her cousin and best friend Spud McKenna?"
Chinaberry Summer, Young Adult Novel by Carroll Taylor


NCWN-West invites you to join us via ZOOM (see link below). 




Carroll S. Taylor is the author of two young adult novels, Chinaberry Summer and Chinaberry Summer: On the Other Side. Both books emphasize themes of generational storytelling and anti-bullying, interwoven with learning about reptiles and amphibians. Her children’s book, Feannag the Crow, teaches children about making friends and appreciating both their diversity and their unique talents.

Her poetry has appeared in the Georgia Poetry Society’s Reach of Songyourdailypoem.com, the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International online art galleryOld Mountain Press, and the anthology Poems to Lift You Up and Make You Smile.

In November 2021, Taylor and three other local Appalachian authors were honored by their illustrator with a mural featuring animals and characters from their children’s books. The mural was installed on the outside wall of Mountain Regional Library in Young Harris, GA, to encourage children to read. Taylor is also a member of Scribes On Stage, and she co-wrote and directed a one-act play about the history of Clay County, NC; Hayesville; and the Cherokee Trail of Tears. “Beneath the Sky and Waters” was performed onstage at the Peacock Performing Arts Theatre in April 2022.

After teaching in high school and university settings for more than forty years, Taylor retired with her husband in Hiawassee, GA. To learn more about her, visit chinaberrysummer.com.


Sign up for Open Mic: 3-4 minute max, poetry or prose (2 poems only, please) by emailing glendabeall@msn.com

3 comments:

  1. This was a most interesting reading. Carroll held us eagerly waiting for her next story or poem and satisfied all questions about how she writes. Open mic by creative poets kept all of us at our screens to see what would we hear next. Thanks Carroll and all our open mic readers.

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  2. Carroll Taylor is one of my favorite writers. I always enjoy hearing her work. She shared with "Coffee With the Poets," last week a touching poem about WWII.

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  3. Carroll is indeed a favorite for many of us. I always like to hear her read her poems and her prose.

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