CWPW special guest is Lorraine Bennett July 13

 

Lorraine Bennett

 Coffee with the Poets and Writers (CWPW) will feature journalist and writer Lorraine Martin Bennett on Wednesday, July 13, at 10:30 A.M. at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, N.C.

 

The event is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow presentation. Bring a poem or short prose piece (two to three minutes) to participate. CWPW is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network West (NCWN-West), which also includes writers in Towns, Union, Fannin, and Rabun Counties in Georgia.

 

Lorraine Martin Bennett is a professional print, web and broadcast journalist and copy editor who grew up in Murphy, North Carolina, graduated with her high school class journalism medal and received a scholarship to UNC Chapel Hill where she earned her degree.

 

Her career began on the Atlanta Journal where she wrote features, covered news, including the state legislature, and met her husband. She was hired by the Los Angeles Times and became the newspaper’s first woman to head a domestic bureau. She joined Ted Turner’s fledgling CNN as a news writer, becoming copy editor, producer and editorial manager before ending her career at CNN International.

 

She retired to Murphy in 2006 and, with her late husband Tom, built a farmhouse on her family’s land. She writes poetry, flash fiction, essays and still practices her craft by copy editing and writing occasional articles for the Clay County Progress. Her first novel, a psychological thriller titled Cat on a Black Moon, will be published by Austin Macauley Publishers later this year.

 

Coffee with the Poets and Writers will meet every second Wednesday from July until December 2022. Masks are optional.  Please do not park in the Library Store parking lot.

 

For more information, contact joanhoward121@gmail.com.