Betty encouraged a new member of the Transylvania Writers Alliance to submit a poem and his is also going to be published.
Betty said, "He was encouraged and he submitted to a literary magazine in Mississippi. Two more of his poems now will be published."
This is an example of how our mountain writers reach out and help other writers. I'm sure Betty was as happy for the new member as she was for herself. Be generous toward other writers. We should not be in competition with each other. Let's help promote our fellow writers and do what we can to help them get their work published.
Betty Jamerson Reed, a native of Western North Carolina, enjoys playing with words. Her poems have appeared in Lucidity Poetry Journal, Living with Grief, and Friends Journal, as well as anthologies such as Echoes across the Blue Ridge, (2010), It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree (2016), as well as in the special "Signature (2016) " and "Windows (2017)" anthologies of River Poets. Two of her poems appear in Mountain Mist (2017)
She is also the author of two award-winning works of nonfiction: The Brevard Rosenwald School (2004) and School Segregation in Western North Carolina (2011).
