North Carolina Writers' Network to host second Online Open Mic on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, at 7:00 PM

The response was so positive to our first Online Open Mic this summer, we've decided to do it again! 

On Wednesday, October 11 ,at 7:00 pm, the North Carolina Writers' Network will host our second Online Open Mic! Registrants will be given five-minute time slots, and all genres are encouraged (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, etc.) 

Registration is free, but is limited to 16 participants, first-come, first served.

Please forward this to your regional group members, and consider joining us on October 11. If you're interested in attending, but don't want to read, keep an eye out for instructions on how to do that a bit closer to the event.

Here are the details:

"Online Open Mic"

When: Wednesday, October 11, 7:00-8:30 pm, EST

Where: Online (internet or phone connection required)

Cost: Free

Register: https://www.ncwriters.org/reg/onlineClassFormOct2017.php

This opportunity is available to anyone with an internet connection and a working microphone (and/or webcam) on their computer, or readers can participate over the phone.

Registrants will be sent log-in instructions no less than 24 hours prior to the Open Mic. 

Curious how it works? Listen to the archived recording of our first online open mic, here.

Again, please do forward this to your regional groups. We hope to see many of you there! 

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Charles Fiore

Communications Director

North Carolina Writers' Network

(336) 293-8844 / charles@ncwriters.org

Fly With Me from Old Mountain Press is filled with good writing

​Fly With Me  is the latest title from Old Mountain Press. Tom Davis has been publishing these anthologies for a number of years. I am impressed with the poetry in this issue dedicated to Kathryn Stripling Byer, 1944 – 2017.

FLY WITH ME, a poetry and prose anthology

The first poem is by Shelby Stephenson, Poet Laureate of North Carolina.  We know Celia Miles and Nancy Dillingham as writers and editors of several anthologies filled with women writers. In this anthology, both have written poems, The Great Blue Heron by Miles and Dillingham’s Gnat Smoke. These poems are filled with great imagery.

The theme of this anthology is nature and Brenda Kay Ledford’s poem, Tiger Lilies, fits the bill. In her poem, How to Rest in the Afternoon, Mary Ricketson helps us slip away from life’s struggles while we lie in a hammock and view the world from a different perspective..

A touching and beautiful poem by Staci Lynn Bell, August 24, Summers End 1994, is one of my favorites. Marcie Behm-Bultz , in her poem, Drive South, takes us on a ride through the backroads of Edisto in South Carolina. “The backroads of Edisto are lined with summer’s cotton fields.” I can almost feel the heat and smell the air on that drive.

Marian Gowan wrote a simple flash fiction piece about a strapping Paul Bunyan type fellow who stops his work high in a tree he was in process of removing. He asks for paper towels but it was not for a cut or wound. He needs it to save a bird’s nest with babies in it.

The last short piece in Fly with Me is by Gene Vickers who was one of my students. The title is Hit and Run and ends with a twist that catches the reader off guard.

The poets and authors in this book have been published in other journals or anthologies.  Some are regularly found in Old Mountain Press publications.

You can purchase  a copy at http://www.oldmp.com/anthology/flywithme.htm or on Kindle. 

Old Mountain Press Anthologies are open to previous contributors or someone recommended by a previous contributor. Previous contributors may recommend up to two people per anthology.

re-blogged from Writers Circle