Brenda Kay Ledford Receives 2017 Paul Green Multimedia Award

Brenda Kay Ledford received the Paul Green Multimedia Award from North Carolina Society of Historians for her blog, "Clay County Yore."


The seventy-sixth annual award's ceremony was held at the Stone Center in North Wilkesboro, NC on November 11, 2017.


An author, Pushcart nominee, and retired educator, Ledford has received the Paul Green Award 10 times for her books, blogs, and collecting oral history on Southern Appalachia.


For information:  www.ncsocietyofhistorians.org
                             http://claycountyyore.blogspot.com

NCWN-West member Betty Jamerson Reed has poem included in the 2017Seasonal Issue of River Poets Journal

NCWN-West's member, Betty Reed, has a poem, "Memory's Treasure, "  included in the 2017 Seasonal Issue of River Poets Journal scheduled for the end of December or early January 2018. release.

http://www.riverpoetsjournal.com/

Betty Jamerson Reed, a native of Western North Carolina, enjoys playing with words. Her poems have appeared in Lucidity Poetry Journal, Living with Grief, and Friends Journal, as well as anthologies such as Echoes across the Blue Ridge, (2010), It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree (2016), as well as in the special "Signature (2016) " and "Windows (2017)" anthologies of River Poets. Two of her poems appear in Mountain Mist (2017) She is also the author of two award-winning works of nonfiction: The Brevard Rosenwald School (2004) and School Segregation in Western North Carolina (2011).