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Writers and poets in the far western mountain area of North Carolina and bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee post announcements, original work and articles on the craft of writing.
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Reading & Discussion + Open Mic
For Zoom link and to sign up for Open Mic, please contact glendabeall@msn.com
Lisa Ezzard is a poet, writer, and the current vintner (wine maker and grower) at Tiger Mountain Vineyards. As the 6th generation on her family farm, which is now a boutique winery, she chose to write poems that follow the growing seasons for her book Vintage (Native Press). Through beautiful imagery and personal details, we learn much about the joys and toils of cultivating grapes, caring for vines, and producing handcrafted, award-winning wines in the N. Georgia mountains. She also writes prose and has an essay in Appalachian Adventure: From Georgia to Maine-a Spectacular Journey on the Great American Trail, a book nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Lisa taught literature and writing for 25 years in places as varied as the University of Bordeaux in France and the Idyllwild School of Arts in Southern California. She is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and has received writing grants from Casa Don Miguel in Mexico and Hambidge Art Center in Georgia. Most recently, her work appeared in the anthology, Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (WVU Press). Other publishing credits include Wild Goose, Exit 271: Your Georgia Writer’s Resource, The Squaw Valley Review, and From the Web: A Global Anthology of Women's Political Poetry.
ZOOM Helpful Hints: You can join Writers' Night Out by cell phone, notebook,
laptop, or computer and use audio only or audio and video. You can
do a test for yourself anytime at zoom.us, where you'll see yourself on
video and be able to test your audio too.
The night of WNO, try to get on before 7 pm to make sure everything is
working on your end. You will be in a waiting room until the host opens
the door.
Writers' Night Out is the second Friday of every month.
Unlike previous years, we will continue through the winter (via
Zoom):
March 12: Sally Mohney poet & writer, Eventide
April 9: Annette Clapsaddle, novelist, Even as We Breathe
The North Carolina Writers' Network is not allowing in-person events right now.
Some time In 2021, we hope to continue in person.
December 11, Friday, 7:00 PM - Join Writers' Night Out on Zoom when our award-winning guest will be:
Joseph Bathanti , former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award for Literature. Bathanti lives in Vilas, North Carolina, with his wife, Joan, and two children. Bathanti and his wife met while both were working with the VISTA program.
· He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Communion Partners; Anson County; The Feast of All Saints;
· This Metal, nominated for the National Book Award, and winner of the Oscar Arnold Young Award;
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Land of Amnesia;
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Restoring
Sacred Art, winner of the 2010 Roanoke Chowan Prize, awarded
annually by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association for best
book of poetry in a given year;
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Sonnets
of the Cross;
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Concertina,
winner
of the 2014 Roanoke Chowan Prize;
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The
13th Sunday after Pentecost, released by LSU Press
in 2016.
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His novel, East Liberty, won the
2001 Carolina Novel Award. His novel, Coventry, won the 2006 Novello
Literary Award.
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His book of stories, The High Heart,
won the 2006 Spokane Prize.
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They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists,
1971-1995, his book of nonfiction, was published in early 2007.
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His more recent book of personal essays, Half of What I Say Is Meaningless,
winner of the Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction, is from Mercer
University Press.
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The novel, The Life of the World to Come, was released from University of
South Carolina Press in late 2014.
A new volume of poems, Light at the Seam, is forthcoming in 2022 from LSU Press. Bathanti is the McFarlane Family Distinguished
Professor of Interdisciplinary Education & Writer-in-Residence of
Appalachian State University’s Watauga Residential College in Boone, NC.
He served as the 2016 Charles George VA Medical Center
Writer-in-Residence in Asheville, NC, and is the co-founder of the Medical
Center’s Creative Writing Program.
Scott Owens, Featured on Writers' Night Out - Friday, October 9, 7:00 PM.
Award-winning poet, editor, reviewer columnist, community organizer, and instructor of English, literature, and creative writing with 15 published books, more than 1400 published poems and 500 published essays, articles, and reviews.
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Writers’ Night Out had a good attendance tonight with participants from Atlanta area up to Hendersonville, NC. Although we can’t hold our face to face meetings, it is fun to get together online and share our writing.
Robert Lee Kendrick presented us with a most interesting program talking about his writing technique and answering my questions. His latest book Shape the Bent Straight was published by Main Street Rag Publishing company. It can be ordered from Scott Douglas at Main Street Rag or from Robert.
He said he has a
number of books on hand because he had planned to be doing readings and
book signings at this time. To order from Robert, send him an email at robertleekendrick@gmail.com He
will get your mailing address and you can send him a small fee plus shipping
cost. It is well worth the effort and the fee. I plan to order tonight.
If you have not joined our Writers’ Night Out Zoom
meeting on the second Friday of each month, be sure to Zoom with us October 9.
The name of the guest presenter will be sent out with our invitation to all
members of NCWN-West and to the mailing list of those who have attended WNO in
the past.
The Open Mic readers are introduced and some
conversation takes place with each of them. Join us in October.
Join us for this month's Writers' Night Out featuring South Carolina poet, Robert Lee Kendrick. His third book, which is a novel in verse, is Shape the Bent Straight, recently published by Main Street Rag.
Kendrick grew up in Illinois and Iowa, but now lives in Clemson with his wife and dog. After earning his M.A. from Illinois State University and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, he held a number of jobs, ranging from house painter to pizza driver to grocery store worker to line cook. Main Street Rag also published his second poetry book Winter Skin. His poems appear in Birmingham Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Tar River Poetry, Louisiana Literature, and elsewhere.
Open microphone will follow for those who’d like to read their own poetry or prose with a time limit of three minutes.
Those wishing to participate in the open mic can sign up to read by emailing Glenda Beall, glendabeall@msn.com.
Zoom invitations will be sent out again to NCWN-West members before the event. For more information, please contact Glenda Beall.
Carol Crawford |
Carroll S. Taylor, author of Feannag |