Reading this month at the
John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC, are two long time members of NCWN West.
Glenda C. Beall and Brenda Kay Ledford.
The reading begins at 7:00 PM at the Keith House. Everyone is invited to attend and we hope you will.There is no admission charge.
Glenda Council Beall lives in Hayesville, NC. Glenda finds memories come to surface in her writing. Many of her poems, such as
Clearing New Ground, from her poetry chapbook, are narratives that tell stories she remembers from childhood.
She is a multi-genre writer, but she first began publishing poetry in 1996, shortly after moving to the mountains. Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as
Main Street Rag, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Appalachian Heritage, Red Owl Magazine, and online in Wild Goose Poetry Review. One of her poems was chosen for
Kakalak, North Carolina Poets, 2009.
Glenda’s poetry can be found in numerous and various anthologies including the recently released,
Women’s Spaces, Women’s Places, and in
From Freckles to Wrinkles from Silver Boomer Books. In 2009, her poetry chapbook,
Now Might as Well be Then, was published by
Finishing Line Press. Two poems from that book were recently re-published online by
Future Cycle Press. Her poems will also appear in the
Poetry Hickory anthology for 2010.
Her short stories have been published in online journals,
Muscadine Lines; A Southern Journal and
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Her personal essays have been published in
Echoes across the Blue Ridge, Reunion Magazine, and in
Cup of Comfort for Horse Lovers.
Breath and Shadow, an online journal will publish a non-fiction article,
Pass it on, in their July issue.
Glenda is past Program Coordinator for North Carolina Writers Network West, and now serves as Clay County Representative for Network West.
A graduate of the University of Georgia, she earned her BS degree in education. She began studying writing in 1996, attending classes taught by teachers in the writing program at the Folk School. She has attended workshops and writing conferences through the North Carolina Writers’ Network for fifteen years and has learned the ends and outs of writing and publishing. When she isn’t working on her own poems and stories, she enjoys teaching others the joy of writing. She is on faculty at John C. Campbell Folk School and will teach a writing class this summer, August 21 – 27. She is Director of
Writers Circle, a writing studio at her home.
Brenda Kay Ledford is a native of Clay County, NC. Her work has appeared in many publications including
Yestersdays Magazette, Our State, Pembroke Magazine, Appalachian Heritage, Broad River Review (Gardner Webb University), Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, The Reach of Song and other journals and anthologies. She is listed with
A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers and is a member of North Carolina Writers' Network West, North Carolina Poetry Society, Georgia Poetry Society and Byron Herbert Reece Society.
Ledford received the Paul Green Award from North Carolina Society of Historians for her three poetry chapbooks. She co-authored the book, "
Simplicity," with her mother, Blanche L. Ledford.
Ledford's readings are performances. She is a story teller as well as a poet and writer and you never know what surprise she has for her audience.
Thursday evening, June 16, promises to be an evening of fun for those who enjoy writing and writers. .
