Poet and Artist Laurence Holden to Teach a Fall Workshop

Who: NCWN/NetWest member Laurence Holden

What: Fall workshop, "Drawing from Our Own True Nature"

Where: North Georgia mountains: Kawani, 226 Beck Rd, Clayton, GA

When: November 8 and 9, 2014

The workshop combines drawing, writing, seeing, sensing, touching, listening, and telling. Each morning, participants will strike out on foot from Kawani to discover the rhythms and patterns in nature that resonate within them in ways that are singular to each of us and call us to know ourselves more intimately and more clearly.

SCHEDULE:

October 9: DEADLINE to pay for a place in the workshop, which is limited to 12 participants. Click here to register.

Friday November 7 , 7-9 pm. get to know and orientation session at Kawani, 226 Beck Rd, Clayton, GA, Laurence's home and studio.

Saturday - Sunday,  8:30 a.m. meet at Kawani and head out into the forest. We will return each day in the late afternoon in time for refreshments.

Sunday November 9, 4 -6 pm  refreshments and a gathering, sharing and summing up together of what was learned and exploring where to go from there.

Who Can Benefit:

• if you miss a personally embracing relationship with the natural world
• if you have the recurring feeling that nature has something to teach you
• if you enjoy the outdoors and would like to explore a new approach to the experience
• if you are an artist or crafts person who draws inspiration from nature
• if you suffer from nature deficit disorder
• if you are an artist or crafts person stuck in a creative rut, or just grown stale in your approach

What to Expect:

• small group size - workshop is limited to only 12 participants.
• An immersion in the natural world bit by bit through all your senses
• exploring techniques handed down from before the dawn of time for seeing, sensing and understanding the patterns and rhythms of life embedded in nature
• a series of guided generative experiences in seeing and sensing to connect the rhythms and patterns in nature with those already living within each us
• as you immerse yourself, layer by layer, into the rhythms and patterns of nature you will begin to recognize layer by layer the patterns and rhythms within yourself that generate and shape the grain of your own life.

For more information, click here.

Carol Crawford will teach two classes in September

Go to the link below to learn about the classes Carol Crawford, program director for the Blue Ridge Writers' Conference, will teach in September. Taking registrations now.

http://glendacouncilbeall.blogspot.com/2014/08/new-class-begins-september-11-with.html#.U_4mNvldUTg

Coffee with the Poets and Writers in Far Western North Carolina

Coffee with the Poets and Writers, a monthly literary event held at Blue Mountain Coffee and Grill, 30 NC Hwy 141, Murphy, NC will hold a reading at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, September 10 by two outstanding published poets, Carole Thompson of Blairsville and Peg Bresnahan of Transylvania County NC. The public is invited. Carole Richard Thompson and her husband moved to Blairsville, in the North Georgia mountains, 21 years ago. After being a portrait artist for many years, she began to study writing, and joined the North Carolina Writer’s Network. She credits her love for writing to her friend and mentor, Nancy Simpson, whose classes in creative writing and poetry have been her greatest source of inspiration. Her first short story, "A Bag of Sugar for Paula," was published in The Liquorian Magazine, and also the anthology, Christmas Presence, published by Catawba Press. Her story, "The Uniform" appeared in the anthology, Clotheslines, published by Catawba Press. Her essay, “The Common Thread” won the 1991 NSDAR Best of Show and National Gold Honors Award in their National Heritage Committee, Literature and Drama Division Contest. Carole’s poetry has appeared in anthologies, A Sense of Place, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, and Women’s Spaces, Women’s Places as well as in poetry journals. In 2013, her poetry book, Enough, was published by FutureCycle Press. The title poem, “Enough,” is a compliment to a long marriage which endured ups and downs. She recalls wartime partings, letters, and phone calls – never enough. But in the later years, being together every day is now enough. Peg Bresnahan’s second poetry collection, In a Country None of Us Called Home, was recently published by Press 53. Peg is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She received her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpeliar. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies.  She lives in Cedar Mountain, NC with husband, sculptor, Dan Bresnahan. She says she moved to the mountains of western North Carolina and the land of waterfalls from the Door County Peninsula of Wisconsin, exchanging what she thinks of as the horizontal water of Lake Michigan for water that is decidedly vertical.  Kathy Smith Bowers, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina said of Peg’s latest book, "This is one of the most beautifully crafted and moving collections I have read in a long time."

Coffee with the Poets and Writers is open to the public at no charge. Bring a poem or short story and read at Open Mic. Those attending are invited to join the writers and poets after the event as we pull tables together and enjoy a social hour.

Coffee with the Poets and Writers is sponsored by North Carolina Writers’ Network West. Contact NCWN West Representative, Glenda Beall, at 828-389-4441 or gcbmountaingirl@gmail.com  for information.