Writers and poets in the far western mountain area of North Carolina and bordering counties of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee post announcements, original work and articles on the craft of writing.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Women’s Writer Joan Ellen Gage to read at Coffee with the Poets and Writers, at the Moss Memorial Library, Hayesville, NC, July 20, 2016, 10:30 AM
On July 20th, 2016, at 10:30 AM, North Carolina Writers’ Network-West member, Joan Ellen Gage, will read from her books at the Moss Memorial Library at Coffee with the Poets and Writers. Gage writes specifically for women, her writing is humorous, inspiring, and geared to midlife experiences as a woman. She highlights her writing with her, often comedic, photo-creations.
Joan’s books include Water Running Downhill, Embracing Your Inner Cheerleader, Trinity’s Adventures in Imagination, and A Redhead Looks at 60. All Gage's books are available in paperback and in eBooks.
For more information on this event, please contact the Moss Memorial Library at 828-389-8401.
Joan's blogs:
www.joanellengage.com
joanszoneblogalicious.wordpress.com
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Photos from NCWN-West's booth at the Festival on the Square, Hayesville, NC, July 2016
Rosemary Royston |
Glenda Council Beall |
Bob Grove and Lucy Cole Gratton |
Glenda Council Beall, Bob Grove, Lucy Cole Gratton, Janice Townley Moore, and Lucy Rozier. Hidden is Joan M. Howard |
Tom Davis and Janice Townley Moore |
Marcia Hawley Barnes |
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Staci Lynn Bell has poetry published in an Old Mountain Press anthology, won medals for poetry and prose, and has a poem accepted in the Fall issue of Kakalak
Local poet Staci Lynn Bell's poem, "Escape" has been published in Old Mountain Press Anthology, Wish You Were Here. Staci's poem, "Unanswered Prayers" has been accepted for publication in the fall edition of. Kakalak 2016.
Additionally, Bell's poem, "Time," won a bronze medal and her short story, "Cheyenne" won a silver medal in the NC Cherokee and Clay County's Silver Arts 2016.
Staci Lynn Bell is a Chicago native who attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She relocated to South Florida, gaining popularity as a 25 year radio and television personality. Bell’s poetry and prose have also been published in Wild Goose Poetry, Wolf Warriors Anthology,and 234 Journal. She lives with the loves of her life, her two dogs, in Hayesville, NC.
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Friday, July 8, 2016
Poet Maren O. Mitchell has poem published in Spring 2016 issue of Town Creek Poetry, an online journal
Local poet Maren O. Mitchell has had her poem, "Shelters", published in the Spring 2016 issue of Town Creek Poetry. Town Creek Poetry is an online poetry journal which is published every spring and fall. That link is here:
http://www.towncreekpoetry.com/SPR16/MITCHELL_SHELTERS.html
Mitchell's poems have appeared in Iodine Poetry Journal, The Lake (UK), Appalachian Heritage, The South Carolina Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Humanities Review, Town Creek Poetry, Skive (AU), The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Appalachian Journal, The Arts Journal, The Southern Poetry Anthologies, V: Georgia & VII: North Carolina, Sunrise from Blue Thunder and elsewhere. Work is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, Chiron Review, Poetry East, The Crafty Poet II, Tar River Poetry and Poem.
Mitchell lives with her husband in the mountains of Georgia.
Town Creek Poetry
http://www.towncreekpoetry.com/SPR16/MITCHELL_SHELTERS.html
Mitchell's poems have appeared in Iodine Poetry Journal, The Lake (UK), Appalachian Heritage, The South Carolina Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Humanities Review, Town Creek Poetry, Skive (AU), The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Appalachian Journal, The Arts Journal, The Southern Poetry Anthologies, V: Georgia & VII: North Carolina, Sunrise from Blue Thunder and elsewhere. Work is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, Chiron Review, Poetry East, The Crafty Poet II, Tar River Poetry and Poem.
Mitchell lives with her husband in the mountains of Georgia.
Town Creek Poetry
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Local poets and writers to read at Hayesville's Festival on the Square this weekend, July 9th and 10th, 2016
This weekend, Hayesville, North Carolina will offer their annual Festival on the Square.The festival begins Friday evening, July 8th, with a street dance. Music and many vendors will grace the square on Saturday and Sunday, July 9th and 10th. Included in this event will be our North Carolina Writers' Network-West booth, which will be on the North side of the square.
Several local poets and writers, members of NCWN-West, will be attending the booth, and will read periodically from their published works. Included in this line-up, are Tom Davis, Joan Ellen Gage, Mary Rickertson, Rosemary Royston, Marcia Barnes, Glenda C. Beall, Joan M. Howard, Bob Grove, and Lucy Cole Gratton.
During the day, the booth will have books to give away. Please make an effort to come by and support the wonderful members, who are taking time to showcase our writers' network.
http://www.clayhistoryarts.org/
http://festivalnet.com/43539/Hayesville-North-Carolina/Festivals/Festival-on-the-Square
Several local poets and writers, members of NCWN-West, will be attending the booth, and will read periodically from their published works. Included in this line-up, are Tom Davis, Joan Ellen Gage, Mary Rickertson, Rosemary Royston, Marcia Barnes, Glenda C. Beall, Joan M. Howard, Bob Grove, and Lucy Cole Gratton.
During the day, the booth will have books to give away. Please make an effort to come by and support the wonderful members, who are taking time to showcase our writers' network.
http://www.clayhistoryarts.org/
http://festivalnet.com/43539/Hayesville-North-Carolina/Festivals/Festival-on-the-Square
Local poet Joan M. Howard to have two poems published in the next issue of The Wayfarer, a literary magazine.
Local poet Joan M. Howard has two poems, "My Neighbor" and "The Chosen Range" accepted in the next issue of The Wayfarer, a literary magazine available online, and in print.
Joan M. Howard's poetry has appeared in the Aurorean, Lucid Rhythms, The Road Not Taken:The Journal of Formal Poetry, The Deronda Review, Victorian Violet Press, Wild Goose Poetry Review, The Reach of Song 2012 poetry anthology (Georgia Poetry Society), POEM, Miller's Pond, Eclectic Muse,The Lyric and other journals.
You can access The Wayfarer, here: http://thewayfarer.homeboundpublications.com/magazine/the-print-and-eedition/
Joan M. Howard lives near the beautiful waters of Lake Chatuge in
Georgia. The serenity of her surroundings inspires much of her poetry.
Her interests include kayaking, birding and boating.
You can access The Wayfarer, here: http://thewayfarer.homeboundpublications.com/magazine/the-print-and-eedition/
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Something a Little Different at Writers' Night, July 8
Royston and Holmes to do "Call & Response" Poetry Reading, Blairsville, GA
Back by popular demand, the duo of Rosemary Royston and Karen Paul Holmes plan to once again pair up their poems and alternate their reading, rather than one poet reading all her poems followed by the other.
This month's Writers’ Night Out is on Friday, July 8. The 7 p.m. reading will be followed by an open microphone for those who’d like to share their own work. The event is free and open to the public at the Union CountyCommunity Center in the heart of Blairsville, GA. If you'd like to purchase food or drink at The View Grill, please come by 6 p.m. (the food is good but service can be slow).
Brenda Kay Ledford's poem published
Brenda Kay Ledford's poem, "The Greatest," was published in "The Skinny Poetry Journal," online, June 2016 issue.
https://theskinnypoetryjournal.wordpress.com
https://theskinnypoetryjournal.wordpress.com
The Blue Ridge Bookfest 2016 featured author Sara Gruen; you can watch her interview with Bill Ramsy, here.
Sara Gruen is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of At the Water’s Edge, Water for Elephants, Ape House, Riding Lessons, and Flying Changes. Her works have been translated into forty-three languages, and have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Water for Elephants was adapted into a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Rob Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz in 2011.
She lives in Western North Carolina with her husband and three sons, along with their dogs, cats, horses, birds, and the world’s fussiest goat.
Sara was the featured author at the 2016 Blue Ridge Bookfest. You can watch her video where she was interviewed by Bill Ramsey, who is on the board of North Carolina Writers' Network, here:
She lives in Western North Carolina with her husband and three sons, along with their dogs, cats, horses, birds, and the world’s fussiest goat.
Sara was the featured author at the 2016 Blue Ridge Bookfest. You can watch her video where she was interviewed by Bill Ramsey, who is on the board of North Carolina Writers' Network, here:
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Nancy Simpson's poem "Lingering at the Edge," published in Kudzu Literary Magazine's 2016 publication, "Women in Appalachia"
Poet Nancy Simpson has had a poem published in Kudzu Literary Magazine's 2016 issue. The theme of this year's magazine was Women in Appalachia. Simpson's poem was Lingering at the Edge.
http://hazard.kctcs.edu/en/Student_Life/Kudzu.aspx
https://kudzu.submittable.com/submit
Nancy Simpson is the author of three poetry collections: Across
Water, Night Student and Living Above the Frost Line,
New and Selected Poems published at Carolina Wren Press. She
holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a B.S. in Education from
Western Carolina University. She received a N.C. Arts Fellowship and
co founded NC Writers Network-West, a non profit, professional
writing organization serving writers living in the remote mountains
west of Asheville. For more than thirty years she has been known as
“beloved teacher” to thousands of young writers.
Simpson’s poems have been published in The Georgia Review,
Southern Poetry Review, Seneca Review, New Virginia Review,
Prairie Schooner and in other literary magazines. Her poem,
“Night Student” was reprinted in the anthology Word and
Wisdom, 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry and in Literary
Trails of North Carolina. Seven of her poems are featured
in Southern Appalachian Poetry, a textbook anthology published
at McFarland Press. The Southern Poetry Review, Armstrong
College in Savannah, Georgia included one of her poems in their 50th
Anniversary issue, Don't Leave Hungry and a new poem in their
recent issue featuring Georgia poets. Her poem “Carolina Bluebirds”
was included in The Poets Guide to Birds, an anthology edited
by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser, and her poem “Pink Pantsuit”
was featured recently in Ted Kooser’s widely read “American Life
in Poetry” newspaper column.
http://hazard.kctcs.edu/en/Student_Life/Kudzu.aspx
https://kudzu.submittable.com/submit
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