Writers, please come to the Nancy Simpson Celebration is a show of support for all that Nancy did for the writing community in Western North Carolina, and beyond. It is at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, in the Keith house in the Community Room, at 2:00 PM, Saturday, May 5, 2018. Here is the link for the event:
https://netwestwriters.blogspot.com/p/celebrating-nancy-simpson.html
https://www.folkschool.org/
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Loren Leith, Maren O. Mitchell, and Rosemary R. Royston to read at JCCFS, The Literary Hour, Wednesday, April 18, 2018
On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at 7:00 PM, John C. Campbell
Folk School and NC Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour. At
this event, NCWN-West members will read at the Keith House on the JCCFS campus,
in Brasstown, NC. The Literary Hour is held on the third Thursday of the month
unless otherwise indicated. This reading is free of charge and open to the
public. This month's featured readers will be:
Karen Paul Holmes, Maren O. Mitchell, and Rosemary Rhodes Royston.
Loren Leith is the author of MOSQ, by Shepherd Graham (pen name), winner of the Silver Royal
Palm Literary Award and the Pascoe Award for Best Thriller of 2011. She is the
recipient of the RPLA award for her short, nonfiction story, My Box Top Cat from
God. Leith is known for her powerful, poignant, and often humorous nonfiction
short stories, soon to be published in book-collection format.
Leith has published numerous professional and scientific articles and authored speeches given to nation-wide psychology-conference audiences.
She is the Founder and Director of Wordsworth Editing, and previously held a position as Literary Judge for the University of Montclair.
Leith has published numerous professional and scientific articles and authored speeches given to nation-wide psychology-conference audiences.
She is the Founder and Director of Wordsworth Editing, and previously held a position as Literary Judge for the University of Montclair.
Maren O. Mitchell: A prolific writer,Mitchell’s poems appear
in POEM, The Comstock Review, Slant, A
Journal of Poetry, The Pedestal
Magazine, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, Hotel Amerika, Chiron Review, Iodine Poetry Journal, Appalachian Heritage, The South Carolina Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Lake (UK), Skive (AU), The Classical
Outlook, Town Creek Poetry, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Wild Goose
Poetry Review, Pirene’s Fountain,
Appalachian Journal, The Arts Journal and
Red Clay Reader #4.
Mitchell's nonfiction book, Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide, is available on Amazon and through www.lineofsightpress.com.
Her work is included in The Crafty Poet II: a Portable Workshop; The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements
with Gerard Manley Hopkins; The Southern Poetry Anthologies, V &
VII; Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems; Sunrise from Blue
Thunder; Nurturing Paws; and Echoes across the Blue Ridge.
Poems have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize by the contributing editors of Pushcart.Mitchell's nonfiction book, Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide, is available on Amazon and through www.lineofsightpress.com.
Rosemary Rhodes Royston: Her chapbook, Splitting the Soil, is currently available through Finishing Line Press and amazon. Her poetry and flash fiction have been published in the following journals: Southern Poetry Review, Appalachian Heritage, NANO Fiction, The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, The Museum of Americana, Razor Literary Magazine, The Kentucky Review, Town Creek, *82 Review, KUDZU, Coal Hill Review, STILL, Literal Latte, New Southerner, Flycatcher, Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Motif version 3, and Alehouse.
Two of Royston's essays are included in the anthology Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets (McFarland). Books reviews have been published in Prairie Schooner and, most recently, Appalachian Heritage.
She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. Read an interview with Rosemary at Writer’s Digest. Royston blogs at: https://theluxuryoftrees.wordpress.com/.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Poets Joan M. Howard and Rosemary R. Royston to read at the John C. Campbell Folk School Literary Hour, Brasstown, NC, Wed., May 17, 2017 at 7:00 PM
On Wednesday, May, 17, 2017, 7:00 PM, two local poets will read at the John C. Campbell Folk School's, "The Literary Hour", at Brasstown, NC. Poets Joan M. Howard, and Rosemary Rhodes Royston will be reading selections of their poetry, and the public is invited.
Joan M. Howard’s
poetry has been published in The Lyric, The Road Not Taken: The Journal of
Formal Poetry, Lucid Rhythms, Victorian Violet, Our Pipe Dreams, Aurorean, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Miller's Pond, the 2012 Georgia Poetry
Society's anthology Reach of Song, POEM, Wayfarer, and others.
Howard recently published a book of poetry, Death
and Empathy: My Sister Web, a tribute to her sister Webster, and to Howard's husband, Jack. The book focuses on
Howard’s grief and the gift of life itself, through nature, animals, travel and
love.
She is a former
teacher, member of North Carolina Writers' Network West, has studied German and
English literature. Howard goes birding and spends time in Athens, GA, and on the beautiful
waters of Lake Chatuge, in Hiawassee, Georgia.
Rosemary Rhodes Royston
holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, is a lecturer at Young Harris
College, Georgia, and is a Rep for North Georgia for the NCWN-West. Royston’s
poetry has been published in journals such as The Southern Poetry
Review, The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, Coal
Hill Review, FutureCycle, STILL, New Southerner, and Alehouse. Her essays on writing poetry are included in Women and
Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets,
McFarland.
Royston’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she
was the recipient of the 2010 Literal Latte Food Verse Award. Her chapbook, Splitting
the Soil, is available at Finishing Line Press.
Most recently, she received
Honorable Mention in the George Scarbrough Poetry Contest, Mountain Heritage
Literary Festival, along with her short fiction being selected as Honorable
Mention in the Porter Fleming Literary Awards, 2012. Royston blogs at The Luxury of
Trees.
The Literary Hour at JCCFS is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network-West.
The Literary Hour at JCCFS is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network-West.
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