Please join us for the entertaining prose of award-winning local writer, Loren Leith. She is our featured reader along with Atlanta poet Danielle Hanson. As always, open mic follows -- sign up at the door. Union County Community Center map here.
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Showing posts with label Writers' Night Out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writers' Night Out. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Friday, August 3, 2018
Mitchell & Ricketson at Writers' Night, August 10
Come join us to hear these highly published local poets. Participate in open mic too!
Union County Community Center, Blairsville, GA
Monday, June 25, 2018
Don't Miss the Georgia Author of the Year
NCWN-West & Georgia Poetry Society Team Up for Two Events, July 13 & 14
Jane Simpson, Georgia Author of the Year (Chapbook) |
Writers' Night Out, July 13, features Georgia Author of the Year for Poetry (Chapbook)
Jane Simpson. Also featured is NCWN-West member with two new books, Joan Howard. The event takes place at 7 p.m. at the Union County
Community Center in Blairsville, GA. There will also be an open microphone
where audience members can share three minutes of their own poetry or prose. The
event is free and open to the public.
The next day, July14, the Georgia Poetry Society will hold
their quarterly meeting from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Young Harris
College. Featured Georgia poets are Chelsea Rathburn, Jim May, Karen Paul Holmes, and Perry Ivey. The day includes presentations on craft and an open mic
session—plus the camaraderie and good spirits of fellow writers. Breakfast
items will be provided, and lunch is available by advance reservation. While
the meeting, which is free for members and $10 for non-members, will be geared
toward poetry enthusiasts, all writers are welcome.
Joan Howard's poetry has been published in The Lyric, The Road Not Taken: The Journal of Formal Poetry, Lucid
Rhythms, Victorian Violet, the Aurorean, Miller's Pond, Georgia Poetry
Society's Reach of Song (2012), POEM, The Wayfarer, and others.
She has recently published two books: Death
and Empathy: My Sister Web and Jack, Love, and the
Daily Grail (Kelsay Books, 2018) both available on amazon.com. She is a
former teacher, has an MA in German and English literature, enjoys birding and
kayaking on beautiful Lake Chatuge in Hiawassee. She is a member of North
Carolina Writers Network West, North Carolina Writers Network, Ridgeline, and
the Georgia Poetry Society.
Jane Simpson's first chapbook, On the Porch, was awarded Georgia Author of the Year for 2018. Her
previous chapbook was Under the Eave
(FutureCycle Press, 2017), and her full-length book, Blessings of the Beasts, will be published this fall. Her poems
have appeared in Atlanta Review, BorderSenses,
The Chattahoochee Review, Main Street Rag, POEM, The Penwood Review, Poet Lore
(Honorable Mention, Ratner-Ferber-Poet Lore Prize), and elsewhere. She was nominated
for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. In addition, she is the Chief Development Officer
for a non-profit organization and lives in Atlanta and Blue Ridge, GA.
Writers’ Night Out is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’
Network-West and takes place on the second Friday of the month, April through
November. The Union County Community Center is located at Butternut Creek GolfCourse 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.
Details of the Georgia Poetry Society meeting are in their newsletter,
available on the News page at http://georgiapoetrysociety.org/contests/news/
(select Summer from the list). For more information, and to reserve lunch, contact GPS Treasurer Lyn Hopper, gpstreas@gmail.com by July 2.
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Writers' Night Out, June 8, Blairsville GA
Come join the fun at 7 pm!
I'll be reading from my new book, No Such Thing as Distance. And you'll love Michelle Castleberry.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Writers' Night-Blairsville Begins on April 13
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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.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
This Friday Night, Nov 10 Writers' Night Out
Award-Winning Writers
Dana Wildsmith & Christopher Martin
7 pm
followed by Open Mic
(limit 3 minutes of poetry or prose)
Brought to you by NCWN-West and hosted by Karen Paul Holmes
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Nov 10: Final Writers' Night of 2017, Blairsville, GA
Christopher Martin & Dana Wildsmith
plus open mic
(sign up at door to read 3 mins of poetry or prose... leave us wanting more)
Featuring award-winning writers at Union County Community Center, Blairsville, GA |
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