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.

 

Marcia was selected Georgia Author of the Year in 2017.

In 2017, Marcia Barnes was selected Georgia Author of the Year for her children's book. Read about it here.

Marcia will join Richard Cary at Coffee with the Poets and Writers Wednesday, Sept 18, at Moss Memorial Library, 10:30 AM. Come and have a cup of coffee and enjoy our featured readers. Bring your own poem or short prose piece.

CWPW 2019 SCHEDULE OF READERS

Schedule for Coffee with the Poets and Writers for 2019

March  20 –Knute Rary  and Bob Grove

April   17--  Brenda Kay Ledford

May 15--   Charley Pearson   

June  19—Joan Howard  and Gene Hirsch

July  17--  Patricia Zick   

August  21—Don Long and Carroll Taylor

September  18--   Richard Cary and Fred Tarr 

October  16  -- Glenda Barrett and Roy Paine

November   20 --  Mary Ricketson and Jim Davis

December –  18 --  Christmas Luncheon – Open Mic

 If you are on this list and have not done so, please send your bio, less than 200 words, along with a photo (300 DPI) at least a month before your reading. Send now and Carroll Taylor will put it in her file and you can forget about it.

If you would like to be put on our waiting list to read if someone cancels, send your bio and photo and tell us you want to be put on the list.

We hope you all will come out to hear these writers and storytellers share their work. We meet the third Wednesday of the month, March - December at Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, NC. We often give door prizes so come and maybe you will get lucky.

Joan Howard is the facilitator of this group. Carroll Taylor handles publicity. 

Request for NCWN-West members to read at Coffee with the Poets and Writers meetings, for 2019, Hayesville, NC

Glenda Beall is setting up the schedule for featured members of NCWN-West to read at Coffee with the Poets and Writers for 2019. The event will begin in March and go through November with featured readers. Some months we will have two readers and some months we will have one. The meetings are at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, NC on the third Wednesday of the month at 10:30 AM.

Joan Howard is the facilitator and Carroll Taylor will doing publicity. There will be an article placed in the local newspapers.  If you are not from Clay, Cherokee, Towns, and Union, publicity will try to get an article in your local newspaper if you get them the contact information. If you have a book to promote, that is great. Bring copies to sell and sign. The event usually has visitors from the community who are not already members, some who just want to hear the reading.

CWPW has Brenda Kay Ledford reading for April Joan Howard for June, and tentatively, Charlie Pearson for March. Some other months are open; please check with Glenda Beall at glendabeall@msn.com for the current schedule. If two readers want to read on the same day, let Beall know. The event has a good attendance and everyone enjoys the Open Mic.