Please join us for this reading featuring poet, author, playwright and founder of Jacar Press, Richard Krawiec, and poet, Karen Paul Holmes. Share your work at open mic, too! Union County Community Center, Blairsville, GA
Richard will also teach at Writers Circle in Hayesville the next day. See Glenda Beall's Writers Circle Blog for more information.
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Showing posts with label Writers' Night Out. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
The View Grill Now Open before Writers' Night Out
Diana Anhalt - Friday, May 12
7 p.m.
followed by open mic
1st floor conference room
Union County Community Center, Blairsville, GA
And... here's a word from The View Grill's new management:
Join us Friday, May 12 to celebrate Mother's Day with The View's first ever Grand Buffet! This spectacular feast will include Prime Rib, Crab Legs, Peel-n-Eat Shrimp, Oysters on the Half Shell, Herb Baked Chicken, Broiled Fish, and various sides, salads, and desserts. All you can eat, including non-alcoholic beverages, for only $25.99! Buffet served from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Regular menu not available for this special event.
Friday, May 5, 2017
Writers' Night Out, Blairsville, 2017 Schedule
Here's the revised schedule of distinguished readers. There's always an open mic too.
The View Grill is open for dinner or refreshment -- arrive by 6 p.m. to be served.
Friday, April 28, 2017
Writers' Night May 12: Viva México and more...
"Diana's poems leap with the color and music of Mexico, where she spent most of her life."
A former resident of Mexico—Diana Anhalt’s parents moved there from New York in 1950 in order to escape possible persecution during the McCarthy era—she now lives in Atlanta.Her poetry books are Because There is No Return (Passager), Second Skin (Future Cycle), and Lives of Straw (Finishing Line). Her work's been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Nimrod, The Comstock Review, Atlanta Review, and many other literary journals. She's also the author of the non-fiction book, A Gathering of Fugitives: American Political Expatriates in Mexico 1948-1965 (Archer Books), as well as essays and book reviews published in both English and Spanish. She says, "I'm waiting for my writing to acquire a southern accent."
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Writers' Night Out Features Newton Smith & Robert Lee Kendrick
Our 2017 Season Opens on April 14 in Blairsville, GA
You're invited to hear poems from two
Ph.D. poets who have new, highly acclaimed books: Newton Smith will read from his Camino Poems: Reflections on the Way,
and Robert Lee Kendrick from his Winter
Skin. After the featured readers, there's an open microphone for anyone wanting to share their own poems or prose. All this takes place at 7 pm on April 14 at the beautiful Union County Community Center. Please note, we will be meeting in a first floor conference room this month rather than the ballroom, and the grill will not be open for dinner until May.
Of the two books, celebrated North Carolina author, Ron Rash,
says: “Newt Smith’s spiritual journey is rendered with such attentiveness and
fidelity that we become his fellow travelers. We too share the pain and effort
but above all the wonder, and are reminded that in matters of the spirit the
journey and destination can be one,” and “Robert Lee Kendrick’s poems transport
the reader into the deep, dark souls of his narrators, but the elegance of his
language gives the poems a rough, hard-earned grace.”
Smith, who lives in Tuckasegee, NC, received his Ph.D. from
University of North Carolina. He's the treasurer of NCWN-West and a retired professor who taught creative writing,
poetry and literature at Western Carolina University. He has been published
widely in literary magazines including Southern
Poetry Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ann Arbor Review, Poetry Review, Main Street
Rag, and others. Smith now devotes his time to travel, gardening, Buddhist
studies, mindfulness practices, and hiking in nature, especially in the Smoky
Mountains. During his 2014 pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago he wrote a
poem every day reflecting on the physical body, nature, and the spiritual.
Kendrick also has a Ph.D., earned from the University of
South Carolina. He grew up in Illinois and Iowa, but now calls Clemson, South
Carolina home, where he lives with his wife and their dogs. His poems have
appeared in top journals, such as Tar
River Poetry, Xavier Review, Louisiana Literature, South Carolina Review, The
James Dickey Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His
chapbook, Winter Skin, was released in 2016 by Main Street Rag Publishing.
Writers’ Night Out is a free monthly event, sponsored by North Carolina Writers’
Network-West. It takes place on the second Friday of the month, April through
November. Open mic readers sign up at the door and can read for three minutes each. The Union County Community Center (map here) 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, please contact Karen Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
We're Back: Writers' Night Out 2017 Schedule
This little guy won't be reading but you can! |
Union County Community Center
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Blairsville, GA
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2nd Fridays of the month at 7 pm
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Reading followed by open mic
Here's our calendar:
April 14: Robert Kendrick and Newton Smith
May 12: Diana Anhalt
June 9: Glenda Beall
July 14: Christopher Martin
Aug 11: Tribute to Tom Lux + humorous poetry open mic
Sept 8: Andrea Jurjevic and Jason Allen
Oct 13: Natalie Grant
Nov 10: Dana Wildsmith
Open mic follows for poetry or prose readers (3 minutes each)
Contact Karen Paul Holmes for more info
kpaulholmesATgmailDOTCOM
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Friday, August 26, 2016
Upcoming Events
Book Festival in Atlanta is Worth the Trip
Labor Day Weekend: Karen Paul Holmes and many other poets and authors will appear at the largest independent book festival in the country. September 2-4. Full schedule is here: Decatur Book Festival
Writers' Night Out: Jim May To Read from His New Book
Labor Day Weekend: Karen Paul Holmes and many other poets and authors will appear at the largest independent book festival in the country. September 2-4. Full schedule is here: Decatur Book Festival
Writers' Night Out: Jim May To Read from His New Book
Friday, Sept. 9: Young Harris College professors, Chelsea Rathburn and James May, will read their award-winning poems at Writers' Night Out at 7 pm. at the Union County Community Center in Blairsville, GA.
The
married couple are both well-published poets who moved to the area from Atlanta
to teach English and creative writing at Young Harris College in 2013. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. (dinner
available for purchase upstairs in The View Grill but please arrive no later than 6) with the reading at 7 p.m.
in the ballroom. An open microphone follows for those who’d like to showcase
their own writing.
Rathburn is author
of two full-length poetry collections, A
Raft of Grief (Autumn House Press, 2013) and The Shifting Line, winner of the 2005 Richard Wilbur Award, as well
as a poetry chapbook, Unused
Lines (Aralia Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in many
prestigious journals such as The
Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, The Threepenny
Review, Ploughshares, and New
England Review, and her prose has appeared in Creative Nonfiction. In 2009, she received a poetry fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts. She directs the creative writing program
at YHC.
May is the author
of Unquiet Things (Louisiana State
University Press, 2016). The winner of
the Poetry Society of America’s Cecil Hemley Memorial Award in 2016, his poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, New
England Review, New Ohio Review, The New Republic, Rattle,
The Southern Review and elsewhere. The former editor of New South,
he has received scholarships from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference,
Inprint, and the Krakow Poetry Seminar. In 2013, he won the Collins Award
from Birmingham Poetry Review.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Sneak Peak: Our Featured Poets for Writers' Night Out, Aug 12
Ginger Murchison has had poems featured three times on The Writers Almanac since April.
Hear Garrison Keillor read them: http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/ginger-murchison/
Ginger Murchison |
Ginger will read along with
Lynn Alexander
former Atlanta Review poetry editor
at
Writers' Night Out
Friday, August 12
7 p.m.
Union County Community Center
Blairsville, GA
Lynn Alexander |
Open Mic follows the featured readers
Both poets will have books for sale
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Something a Little Different at Writers' Night, July 8
Royston and Holmes to do "Call & Response" Poetry Reading, Blairsville, GA
Back by popular demand, the duo of Rosemary Royston and Karen Paul Holmes plan to once again pair up their poems and alternate their reading, rather than one poet reading all her poems followed by the other.
This month's Writers’ Night Out is on Friday, July 8. The 7 p.m. reading will be followed by an open microphone for those who’d like to share their own work. The event is free and open to the public at the Union CountyCommunity Center in the heart of Blairsville, GA. If you'd like to purchase food or drink at The View Grill, please come by 6 p.m. (the food is good but service can be slow).
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Ronald Moran and Jonathan Rice entertained at Writers' Night Out, NCWN-West event, June 10, 2016, at Blairsville, Georgia
Ronald Moran |
Jonathan K. Rice |
Lecturer, joined Editor Jonathan K. Rice at Writers’ Night Out on Friday, June 10 at the Union County Community Center in the heart of Blairsville. Moran read first, not only featuring published poems from Eye of the World, but also recently written ones. Quite a bit of his work was witty and met with laughter and acknowledgment. Rice followed and read from Shooting Pool with a Cellist (Main Street Rag), and Killing Time (Main Street Rag). Rice’s love of music was apparent in his poems, as was his keen eye. The poets were followed by open mic, where several writers in attendance shared both poetry and prose.
Writers’ Night Out is sponsored by NC Writers' Network-West and takes place on the second Friday of the month. Prose writers or poets wishing to participate in the open mic can sign up at the door to read for three minutes. The Union County Community Center hosts the event 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.
Rosemary Royston
https://theluxuryoftrees.wordpress.com/about/
Saturday, June 4, 2016
All-Star Lineup on June 10: Ron Moran & Jonathan K Rice
Two Well-Published NC Poets to Read at Writers' Night Out, Blairsville
Ronald Moran, former
Clemson professor, dean, and a Fulbright Lecturer, joins editor Jonathan K.
Rice to share their work at Writers’ Night Out on Friday, June 10. The 7 p.m.
reading will be followed by an open microphone for those who’d like to share
their own work. The event is free and open to the public at the Union CountyCommunity Center in the heart of Blairsville, GA
Moran has published 13 collections
of poetry. The most recent, Eye of the
World, was just released by Clemson University Press. Of it, Poet David
Kirby writes, “…this grateful, gifted poet teaches us how to burrow into and
recognize the riches in our own lives.” Moran has also written two books of
criticism (one coauthored) and has had more than 500 poems, essays, and reviews
published in many journals, including Connecticut
Poetry Review, Emrys Journal, Evening Street Review, Louisiana Review,
Northwest Review, South Carolina Review,
Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. He has won several awards and was
recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Moran’s writings and memorabilia about them are archived in Special
Collections of the James B. Duke Library at Furman University. He lives in Simpsonville, SC.
Rice is founding editor and
publisher of Iodine Poetry Journal,
as well as co-editor of Kakalak 2016.
His latest poetry collection is Killing
Time (Main Street Rag, 2015). Other books include Shooting Pool with a Cellist (Main Street Rag, 2003) and Ukulele and Other Poems (Main Street
Rag, 2006). His poetry has appeared in many publications. He’s also been a
longtime host of poetry readings in Charlotte, NC, where he lives with his
family. In 2012 he received the Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award for
outstanding service in support of local and regional writers, awarded by
Central Piedmont Community College. As a visual artist, Rice’s work has been
featured as cover art on books, as well as in online magazines.
The next day, June 11, Rice will
teach a poetry class from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Writers Circle in Hayesville.
For more information on the class, please see http://www.glendacouncilbeall.com/p/schedule.html
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
Fike and Moore Headline Writers' Night in Blairsville, April 8
Writers' Night Out (WNO) begins its 6th year with two popular poets:
Janice Townley Moore
Rupert Fike
Reading begins at 7 pm
Open mic follows -- sign up at the door to read poetry or prose for 3 minutes.
Janice and Rupert are highly published poets and entertaining readers. Janice is a favorite local poet, and Rupert wows crowds in Atlanta. The venue is lovely.
What's not to love?
Monday, February 29, 2016
Writers' Night Out 2016 Schedule - Blairsville, Georgia
Mark your calendars now for a stellar line-up...
Writers' Night Out is about to begin it's 6th year. Some readers may be added, but here are the dates and featured writers so far. And remember... there's always an open mic.
Union County Community Center, Blairsville |
- April 8: Rupert Fike & Janice Townley Moore
- May 13: Carol Crawford
- June 10: Jonathan Kevin Rice (will teach the next day at Writers Circle) & Ronald Moran
- July 8: Rosemary Royston & Karen Paul Holmes
- August 12: Ginger Murchison & Lynn Alexander
- Sept 9: Jim May
- Nov 11 Christopher Martin& Staci Bell
The Union County Community Center in the heart of Blairsville has once again agreed to be our gracious host. They let us use the facility for free, with no minimum requirement on food purchases, which is an amazing benefit to NCWN-West and the area writers and audience.
Watch this blog for more information about the April 8 reading. Rupert and Janice are Writers' Night favorites.
Monday, September 28, 2015
Steven Harvey, Beloved Teacher & Writer at Writers' Night, Blairsville, GA
Don't Miss this Special Guest
Friday, October 9
Writers’ Night Out features retired Young
Harris College professor, Steven Harvey, PhD, on Friday night, October 9. An
open microphone will follow for those who’d like to read their own poetry or
prose. The event takes place at the Union County Community Center in
Blairsville and is free and open to the public. Food and drinks are available
for purchase. The program begins at 7 p.m., but attendees should arrive by 6 p.m.
if they plan to eat.
Harvey’s
most recent book is The Book of Knowledge
and Wonder, a memoir about coming to terms with the suicide of his mother.
It was published by Ovenbird Books as part of the “Judith Kitchen Select”
series. A section of the memoir appeared
in The Best American Essays 2013. He is also the author of three books of
personal essays, A Geometry of Lilies,
Lost in Translation, and Bound for
Shady Grove and edited an anthology of essays written by men on middle age
called In a Dark Wood. Harvey is a professor emeritus of English and
creative writing at Young Harris College, a member of the nonfiction faculty in
the Ashland University MFA program in creative writing, a senior editor for River Teeth magazine, and the creator of
The Humble Essayist, a website
designed to promote literary nonfiction. He lives in the north Georgia mountains. You can learn more about Steven and his work
at his web site: www.steven-harvey-author.com .
Writers’ Night Out
is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network-West and takes place on the
second Friday of the month, April through November. Prose writers or poets
wishing to participate in the open mic can sign up at the door to read for
three minutes. In its fifth year, the event draws audience members from four
counties. The Union County Community Center is located at Butternut Creek Golf
Course, 129 Union County Recreation Rd., Blairsville, Georgia 30512, off
Highway 129 near the intersection of US 76, phone (706) 439-6092. For more information, please contact Karen
Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Scott Owens & Glenda Beall at Writers' Night Out, Sept 11
Join us for this dynamic duo on Friday evening, September 11 at 7 p.m.
Glenda Beall |
Scott Owens |
Dinner in The View Grill: please arrive by 6 p.m. or earlier*
Program in the Ballroom: 7 p.m. followed by open mic
Union County Community Center
129 Union County Recreation Center Road (near intersection of 129 and 76)
Blairsville, GA
map (note: the Holiday Inn on the map is now a Comfort Inn)
The readings are free and open to the public.
Sign up at the door for open mic, limited to 3 minutes per reader.
*Optional food/refreshments are self-pay.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Join the Beebes for Writers’ Night Out, July 10
Husband and wife writers, Jo Carolyn and John Beebe, will entertain the audience with their fiction, poetry, and memoir.
An open microphone follows their reading for those who’d like to share
their own writing. Writers’ Night Out, takes place at the Union CountyCommunity Center in Blairsville, GA on Friday evening, July 10. The event is free and open to the
public. Food and drinks are available
for purchase, but attendees should arrive by 6 pm to allow time to be served
before the program starts at 7 pm.
John and Jo Carolyn Beebe have lived in Towns
County, GA for twenty years. They recently celebrated their 59th wedding
anniversary. They have three daughters, six grandchildren, and one
great-grandson.
Jo Carolyn was born at the tip of the
Appalachian Mountains in northeast Mississippi where oral family history was
handed down to her by her grandparents and great-grandfather -- history rich in
tales of the early settlers, Civil War encounters, and the hard life of the
rural south. While studying creative writing at Miami University, she
discovered those family legends provided material for short stories and poetry.
Her publication credits include MainStreet Rag, Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Lights in the Mountains, Heroes of
Hackland, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Clothes Lines, Women’s Spaces Women’sPlaces, View from the Top, and
Abingdon Press.
John Beebe comes by his personal essays
naturally. His mother was a poet and journalist for local newspapers, and his
grandfather also was a writer. John is a retired civil engineer having worked
in the paper industry in Wisconsin, Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio. He has enjoyed
choral music most of his life and sang with the Atlanta Symphony and the
Cincinnati Symphony for a total of thirteen years. In recent years he sang with
the Mountain Community Chorus. John was born in South Bend, IN, grew up in
Zion, IL, and graduated from the University of Illinois
Writers’ Night Out, sponsored by the North CarolinaWriters’ Network-West, takes place on the second Friday of the month, April
through November. Prose writers or poets wishing to participate in the open mic
can sign up at the door to read for three minutes. The Union County Community
Center is located at Butternut Creek Golf Course, 129 Union County Recreation
Rd., Blairsville, Georgia 30512, off Highway 129 near the intersection of US 76,
phone (706) 439-6092.
For more
information, please contact Karen Holmes at (404) 316-8466 or kpaulholmes@gmail.com.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Writers' Night Out Returns April 10
Hope to see everyone after the long winter. We're springing forward with a special program with a prestigious guest: Ronald Moran, award-winning poet and former professor/dean at Clemson University. And a very special local writer: Maren Mitchell.
We're back on Fridays (the second of each month), due to popular demand. Also, The View Grill has a new menu, so come at 6 pm for food/drink/friendly chat.
Featured reader bios:
We're back on Fridays (the second of each month), due to popular demand. Also, The View Grill has a new menu, so come at 6 pm for food/drink/friendly chat.
Featured reader bios:
Ronald Moran has
published 12 collections of poetry, the most recent being The Tree in the Mind (Clemson University Press, 2014); two books of
criticism (one coauthored); and more than 500 poems, essays, and reviews in
many journals, including Connecticut
Poetry Review, Emrys Journal, Evening Street Review, Louisiana Review,
Northwest Review, South Carolina Review,
Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. He has won several awards and was
recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Moran’s writings and memorabilia about them are archived in Special
Collections of the James B. Duke Library at Furman University. He lives in Simpsonville, SC.
Maren Mitchell’s poems
have appeared in many journals, including The
South Carolina Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Humanities Review, The Classical
Outlook, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Skive (Australia), Town Creek Poetry,
Wild Goose Poetry Review, and The
Arts Journal, Red Clay Reader Vol. 4. Her work has been, or is forthcoming,
in anthologies such as The Southern
Poetry Anthology, V: Georgia, The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with
Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Negative
Capability Press Anthology for Georgia Poetry. Mitchell’s nonfiction book, Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide
(Line of Sight Press, 2012), is available at the Curiosity Shop bookstore in
Murphy, NC, and on Amazon. A native of North Carolina, Mitchell lived in
Bordeaux, France; Kaiserslautern, Germany; and throughout the southeast U.S. She now lives with her husband in Young
Harris, Georgia.
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