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We begin our eighth season
on April 13 and continue the second Friday of the month through November. Featured
readers present their work at 7 p.m., and an open microphone follows, where
audience members can share three minutes of their own poetry or prose. The
event is free and open to the public and takes place at the Union County Community Center in Blairsville, GA.
2018 schedule of featured
readers from North Carolina and Georgia:
April 13: Mike
James and Michael Walls
May 18: Jennifer
Lux and Rupert Fike
June 8: Michelle
Castleberry and Karen Paul Holmes
July 13: Joan
Howard and Jane Simpson
Aug 10: Kimberly
Simms and Mary Ricketson
Sept 14: Robert
Kendrick and Janice Moore
Oct 12: Danielle
Hanson and Loren Leith
Nov 9: Glenda C. Beall and Estelle Rice
April reader, Mike James, is the
author of eleven poetry collections. His most recent books include: Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog, 2017),
My Favorite Houseguest (FutureCycle,
2017), and Peddler’s Blues (Main
Street Rag, 2016.) His work has appeared in over 100 magazines throughout the
country in such places as Tar River
Poetry, Soundings East, and Laurel
Review. He has also been active as an editor for The Kentucky Review, Autumn House Press, and his own Yellow Pepper
Press. After years spent in South Carolina, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and
Georgia, he now makes his home in Chapel Hill, NC with his large family and a large
assortment of cats. James will also teach a poetry class on April 14 at
Writers Circle in Hayesville, NC. For more information, visit http://www.glendacouncilbeall.com/
.
Michael Walls has had poetry published in a variety of
journals and magazines including The New
York Quarterly, South Carolina Review, Atlanta Review, Chattahoochee Review,
Poetry East, The Midwest Quarterly and others. His chapbook is The Blues Singer and his full-length
collection is Stacking Winter Wood
(Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press, 2017). His poems and articles have also appeared
in law reviews and journals. He is a retired labor lawyer who now spends his
time working as a volunteer on environmental and other issues, hiking, hanging
out with friends and family, writing poems and letters to the editor, and
listening to rock and roll, blues and jazz. He spends time in Atlanta and the
North Georgia Mountains.
Writers’ Night Out is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’
Network-West. The Union County Community Center is located at Butternut Creek
Golf Course at 129 Union County Recreation Rd., Blairsville, Georgia 30512, off
Highway 129 near the intersection of US 76, phone (706) 439-6092. Food is available
for purchase in The View Grill, but please arrive by 6 pm to get served. For more information on Writers’ Night,
contact Karen Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.
