Author P.C. Zick Featured at Coffee with the Poets and Writers

           

Coffee with the Poets and Writers (CWPW) will feature best-selling author P.C. Zick on Wednesday, July 17, at 10:30 a.m. at the Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville, NC. The event is free and open to the public. 

An open mic will follow her presentation. Bring a poem or a short prose piece to participate. CWPW is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network-West (NCWN-W) which also includes writers in Towns, Union, Fannin, and Rabun Counties in Georgia.

Ms. Zick writes in a variety of genres, including romance, contemporary fiction, and creative nonfiction. She's won various awards for her essays, columns, editorials, articles, and fiction. Her novels range from environmental sagas set in Florida to contemporary romances with a variety of backdrops from Florida to Chicago to Long Island to the mountains of North Carolina. Her nonfiction writing includes books on gardening, travel, and writing.

 She wrote the four novels in her Smoky Mountain Romance series after moving to Murphy, North Carolina, several years ago. Drawing on the mountain view from her cabin, she fashioned a community of people who find hope and love in southwestern North Carolina. Strangers become friends and friends become family in the fictional town of Laurel. Local readers will easily recognize the landmarks in and around Cherokee and Clay counties.

With strong characters, inspiring settings, and surprising plot twists, Ms. Zick imparts her love of family and nature in all her writings. She and her husband enjoy gardening, kayaking, golfing, and exploring waterfalls and mountain vistas throughout western North Carolina. It all serves as her inspiration for creating stories that express her philosophy of living lightly upon this earth with love, laughter, and passion.

            For more information about this event, please contact Glenda Beall: glendabeall@msn.com.

Memoirist & Poet at Writers' Night Out, July 12

 Reading + Open Mic in Blairsville GA

“I know I was a male Chauvinist pig in a past life, 

and they made me come back as a woman in corporate America.” 

- Victoria Barkan in The Monkeys Rule

Writers' Night Out

Friday, July 12

7 pm 

reading followed by open mic

Featured Readers:

Local poet, actor, student Ryvers Stewart

Atlanta author Victoria Barkan 

Union County Community Center 

Blairsville, GA.

Victoria Barkan will read from her new memoir The Monkeys Rule, which covers her successes as well as the discrimination she faced in her 20-year career in the burgeoning, then booming, cable TV industry. Her story continues with her spiritual journey that helped her recover from the ordeal.

Barkan’s long career included 11 years at Cox Communications where she became Director of Marketing Operations. She also travelled the globe extensively as Cox’s consultant to Southwestern Bell in the UK. She is now writing her second book and also focusing on her art, with paintings in an upcoming art show in Alpharetta, GA. She has a BS in art education from Bowling Green University and painted the artwork on her current book’s cover.

Ryvers Stewart hails from Murphy, NC. She has written poetry since middle school, but in high school truly fell in love with it, as well as with acting. She is working on her Associates in Fine Arts degree at Tri-County Community College with graduation on track for 2020. Stewart is also an actress who performs locally. On the weekends she can be found participating in the roleplaying games, D&D and Pathfinder. She is currently working on her first poetry book.

Writers’ Night Out takes place on the second Friday of every month through November. Anyone wishing to participate in the open mic can sign up at the door to read three minutes of poetry or prose.

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 and drinks are available for purchase in The View Grill, but please arrive by 5:30 pm to get served.