Catherine Carter has poems featured in Still: The Journal and Cold Mountain Review, plus a contract for a full-length poetry collection with LSU Press

Catherine Carter, a NCWN-West member, has three poems in Still: The Journal, this fall (http://www.stilljournal.net/catherine-carter-poetry2017.php), “Chickweed, Hens”, “Night Driving, Lighted Windows”, and “The Promise.” 

Cold Mountain Review will showcase  three of Carter's poems in this fall’s special issue on Extinction: “The Rapture”, “Copperheads in Heaven”, and “Crow Cosmogony.” "The Rapture" is nominated for a Pushcart Award.

LSU Press has awarded Carter a contract for her third full-length collection, Larvae of the Nearest Stars, to be published in Fall 2019.

Additionally, Carter is scheduled to be one of two featured poets at the NCPS Poetry Day at Lenoir-Rhyne in Hickory on April 21.

Brenda Kay Ledford Receives 2017 Paul Green Multimedia Award

Brenda Kay Ledford received the Paul Green Multimedia Award from North Carolina Society of Historians for her blog, "Clay County Yore."


The seventy-sixth annual award's ceremony was held at the Stone Center in North Wilkesboro, NC on November 11, 2017.


An author, Pushcart nominee, and retired educator, Ledford has received the Paul Green Award 10 times for her books, blogs, and collecting oral history on Southern Appalachia.


For information:  www.ncsocietyofhistorians.org
                             http://claycountyyore.blogspot.com

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).

Lucy Cole Gratton is stepping down as Cherokee County Rep

Most of the counties in the NCWN-West Region have two representatives who hold at least one free event each month for writers. In Cherokee County Lucy Cole Gratton has served as one of the representatives. She has been an excellent volunteer for our program, first serving as Publicity Chair and then facilitator for the monthly readings at the John C. Campbell Folk School.

After four years, Lucy is stepping down and the other representative for Cherokee County, Mary Ricketson, will take over facilitating the readings. She will begin soon to schedule guests for the programs which begin in March, 2018.

If you are interested in being on the schedule, contact Mary. The event is held the third Thursday of the month at 7:00 PM. Readers must be current members of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. If you live in one of the nine counties in NC or the bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia or Tennessee that are part of the NCWN-West region, and you are a member of NCWN, you are eligible to read at the folk school in Brasstown, NC. 

Usually two people are invited for the hour. They are welcome to bring their books for sale. If you have not published a book, don’t worry. I remember my first time reading in 1996 when I had only published a few poems.

Students from all over the United States and sometimes from foreign countries attend, as well as local people in four counties and members of NCWN-West. The readings are publicized in articles in all local newspapers with a bio and a photo. Joan Gage, administrator for our website and blog, www.netwestwriters.blogspot.com also posts articles about the reading. The Network includes these events in their emails to members. The Network wrote a nice article about Lucy on the White Cross blog.

We appreciate, so much, Lucy’s loyalty to NCWN-West and going the extra mile to be sure the audience felt a part of the performance.  As Program Coordinator, it was good to know that she had everything under control even when both readers cancelled just a couple of hours before the reading.

Lucy plans to move down to Atlanta to be near her family, and their gain is our loss. Contact Cherokee County Reps at the email addresses below:

Mary Ricketson- maryricketson311@hotmail.com
Lucy Cole Gratton- lgratton@hughes.net

Glenda Council Beall

Program Coordinator for NCWN-West

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