The Writers' Workshop of Ashville, NC is sponsoring its 29th Annual Poetry Contest, deadline is February 28, 2018

 The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville, NC, is sponsoring its 29th Annual Poetry Contest,  open to any writer regardless of residence.  The guidelines are also posted at theirwebsite, www.twwoa.org.  For questions, email writersw@gmail.com or call 828-254-8111.

29th Annual Poetry Contest

Deadline: Postmarked by Feb. 28, 2018

Awards:

1st Place: Your choice of a 2 night stay at The Mountain Muse B&B in Asheville; or 3 free online workshops; or 10 poems line-edited and revised by our editorial staff.

2nd Place: Two free workshops; or 8 poems line-edited.

3rd Place: One free workshop, or 5 poems line-edited.

10 Honorable Mentions

Guidelines:

All work must be unpublished. Each poem should not exceed two pages.

Multiple entries are accepted.

Your name, address, phone email and title of work should appear on a separate cover sheet.

The entry fee is $25 for every 3 poems. All entries receive comments from the judges.

Enclose self-sealing SASE for comments and winners' list, and mail to: 
Poetry Contest, 387 Beaucatcher Road, Asheville, NC 28805

Emailed submissions may be sent to writersw@gmail.com with "Poetry Contest" in the subject.

Entry fee is payable online at www.twwoa.org.

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Karen Ackerson, Exec. Director
The Writers' Workshop
387 Beaucatcher Rd.
Asheville, NC 28805

828-254-8111
www.twwoa.org

NCWN-West member Betty Jamerson Reed has poem included in the 2017Seasonal Issue of River Poets Journal

NCWN-West's member, Betty Reed, has a poem, "Memory's Treasure, "  included in the 2017 Seasonal Issue of River Poets Journal scheduled for the end of December or early January 2018. release.

http://www.riverpoetsjournal.com/

Betty Jamerson Reed, a native of Western North Carolina, enjoys playing with words. Her poems have appeared in Lucidity Poetry Journal, Living with Grief, and Friends Journal, as well as anthologies such as Echoes across the Blue Ridge, (2010), It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree (2016), as well as in the special "Signature (2016) " and "Windows (2017)" anthologies of River Poets. Two of her poems appear in Mountain Mist (2017) She is also the author of two award-winning works of nonfiction: The Brevard Rosenwald School (2004) and School Segregation in Western North Carolina (2011).

Popular YA and Children’s Author, Deanna K. Klingel to be featured at Coffee with the Poets and Writers at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC, December 20, 2017, at 10:30 AM

This month at Coffee with the Poets & Writers, the featured author will be Deanna K. Klingel. CWTPW is held at the Moss Memorial Library, 26 Anderson Street, Hayesville, NC. Klingel calls Sapphire Valley, NC home. A compulsive writer all her life, she never sought publication until their seven children were grown and gone from home.

Klingel writes primarily, not exclusively, for young adult readers. She has thirteen books published and others in the que. One of her picture books is available in Spanish, and there are teacher/classroom study guides for two historical fictions. Klingel will be reading from her lastest book: Spirit the Tiny White Reindeer, a children’s book.

Klingel blogs twice a week at booksbydeanna.com, and travels with her books across the South and beyond, appearing at schools, museums, and events. Her books are widely distributed and are available wherever books are sold.

There will be an open mic following the author’s reading. Coffee is provided, and the public is always invited. Coffee with the Poets & Writers is an event sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West.

Website: www.BooksByDeanna.com

http://booksbydeanna.com/spirit-the-tiny-white-reindeer.html