Fall 2022 NCWN Conference Registration Closes Friday

Registration to attend Fall Conference 2022 closes Friday, November 11 at 4:00 p.m. EST (via phone or mail) and at midnight (via online).   The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Resort, 1706 North Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach, NC.

Four p.m. Friday is also the deadline for those already registered for the conference to cancel if necessary and receive a refund.

Learn more about Fall Conference and how to register here.

For recommended hotel accommodations, please visit the Venue section on the Fall Conference 2022 web page.

Listen to the WHQR, Cape Fear's NPR station, interview with Communications Director Katherine O'Hara about Fall Conference.

The 2022 Fall Conference of the North Carolina Writers' Network will open with a keynote address by Jason Mott, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction.

He will be joined on the conference faculty by more than 20 other writers leading classes on the craft and business of writing, from “Cross-Country Flights and Hollywood Nights” to “Escape from Pompeii: How to Write While the World Around You Burns.” 

Instructors include acclaimed novelists Clyde Edgerton and Dana Sachs; poets Mark Cox, Melissa Crowe, Gabrielle Brant Freeman, and Amber Flora Thomas; journalists Russell Worth Parker and Brandon Sneed; editors Margaret Bauer and Emily L. Smith; and many more. 

NCWN Fall Conference in Charlotte, NC has extended its deadline for registration.

From: Charles Fiore,  Communications Director for NCWN

We've extended the pre-registration deadline for the NCWN 2018 Fall Conference until 11:59 pm on Sunday, October 28. That's as late as we can possibly push it back and still be ready to host nearly 200 writers in Charlotte the following weekend.

For full conference info, go to www.ncwriters.org.

Randall Kenan, a 2018 inductee to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, will give the Keynote Address. We'll have an exhibit hall packed with vendors, many of whom have never exhibited with us. And if you've wanted a chance to force more people to hear your work, you'll get it, if you sign up to read at our open mics on Saturday night.

Just a heads up: there are no more hotel rooms available at the conference venue, but you can find additional options at a variety of price points here. All of these are less than half-a-mile (and more like a quarter-mile) from the conference venue.

Please note, this deadline extension only applies to online registrations. If you're planning to pre-register by mail, those still need to be received at the NCWN offices no later than 5:00 pm on Friday, October 26.

It's not too late to get in on the literary event of the fall.

Register at www.ncwriters.org.

See you in Charlotte.

Charles Fiore
Communications Director
North Carolina Writers’ Network
PO Box 21591
Winston-Salem, NC 27120
336-293-8844

We can't avoid new technology. We need to embrace it to stay current.

I don't know how often you read the blog on the NCWN site, but I find it most interesting, especially the past two posts.

https://www.ncwriters.org/whitecross/

We are all dealing with new technology now even if we don't want to learn new things. The recent posts are:

New Literary Podcasts for NC

and Technology can help you write better 

I have become a big fan of podcasts lately. I love to learn and I listen to  podcasts that teach me. New Literary Podcasts for NC was created by author Landis Wade, a member of the NC Writers' Network in Charlotte, NC and will have guests on his show that appeal to writers.

Landis will have an exhibitor table for the podcast at the NCWN 2018 Fall Conference in Charlotte.

Both articles give a hint to some of what we will see at the Conference in Charlotte. Have you heard about Freedom?  

This company is a sponsor for the Fall Conference, and I think I want to learn more. How many times are we distracted by social media or something on the Internet when we are trying to write? We can just click on Freedom and none of those notifications will pop up and stop our thought processes. 

Our members don't always take advantage of what is offered by our parent organization. Click on www.ncwriters.org and check out the White Cross Blog to keep up with the literary world in North Carolina and more. Charles Fiore and Ed Southern do a great job with it.