The North Carolina Writers’ Network-West’s
Literary Hour will be held at the John C. Campbell Folk School on Thursday, September
15, 2022, at 7 p.m. The event will be held in the Open House. The Literary Hour
is free and open to the public.
The featured writers for September
are Karen Paul Holmes and Lorraine Bennett.
Karen Paul Holmes has published two
poetry books, No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin, 2018) and Untying
the Knot (Aldrich, 2014). Her poems have been featured on The Writer's
Almanac and The Slowdown. Publications include Diode, Valparaiso Review,
Verse Daily, and Prairie Schooner. Holmes founded the Side Door
Poets in Atlanta, which she still hosts. She also started Writers' Night Out for
the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West, which is now in its twelfth year.
Held via Zoom on the second Friday of the month, Writers’ Night Out is hosted
by Holmes and Glenda Beall. She also teaches periodically at the John C.
Campbell Folk School. She
will read mostly new poems at the Literary Hour as well as a short selection
from No Such Thing as Distance.
Lorraine
Martin Bennett is a print, web, and broadcast journalist who grew up in Murphy,
North Carolina. She graduated from Murphy High School and UNC Chapel Hill. She has been a journalist with the Atlanta Journal
where she met her late husband, Tom, a columnist for the Cherokee Scout.
She also wrote for the Los Angeles Times and became the newspaper’s
first woman to head a domestic bureau. She joined fledgling CNN as a news writer, becoming copy editor,
producer, and editorial manager before ending her television career at CNN
International. In retirement, she writes essays, short stories, flash fiction,
poetry and still practices her craft by copy editing and occasionally writing
articles for the Clay County Progress. Her essays have appeared in the Personal Story Publishing
Project (Daniel Boone Footsteps, Winston-Salem) for the past two years, with
another coming out soon. Her first novel, Cat on a Black Moon, a
psychological thriller, will be published by Austin Macauley (London, Cambridge,
New York) later this year. She will read the first two chapters from her new
book.
The Literary Hour
will be held on the third Thursday of the month through November at John C.
Campbell Folk School in the roofed and open pavilion of the Open House. From Clays Corner in Brasstown turn onto Brasstown Road,
then turn left on Scoggins Road then left again to pass Davidson Hall. Or
coming from Marsh Creek, turn right onto Davidson Road and follow around to
Open House. Parking is in front near the vegetable gardens.
Anyone with a love of the written word will be
transported by the talent of the featured writers. Contact Patricia Zick at pczick23@gmail.com for further information
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